Over the past 20 years, residents have voiced their concerns to local officials about feeling unsafe along Cariboo Trail Road. And while their worries were shared by district council, the project seemed out of reach; 100 Mile House pulls in only around $2.6 million in annual tax revenue, and an effective solution was estimated to cost upwards of $1 million.
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BCCC member Brendan Ladner, a Whistler resident, wrote the following post as an open letter to British Columbia’s newly appointed Executive Council members responsible for transportation - Minister of Transportation and Infrastructure Rob Fleming, and Minister of State for Infrastructure Bowinn Ma.
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As a town that is lauded for its outdoor splendour, it is somewhat surprising that few investments have been made in dedicated cycling infrastructure for Nelson residents. But under the direction of council the last few years, staff has been tasked with resurrecting the City’s Active Transportation Plan from 2010, and went a step further by recently hiring a new senior planner.
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Cycling culture in Revelstoke is big. The town boasts a machine-built mountain bike trail of some renown that runs a full vertical drop of 5,620 feet (and named, naturally, the ‘Fifty Six Twenty’). During a normal school year, the bike racks outside the elementary and high schools in town are packed — hundreds of bikes lined up to one another like dominoes. “There’s great potential to connect what we’ve go. The irony here is that everyone rides, but there are no bike lanes.”
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Under the terms of a new resilience funding stream within the 12-year Investing in Canada Infrastructure Program (ICIP), up to $413 million could be allocated to cycling projects in British Columbia. But, according to the BCCC, little to none of these funds may end up being allocated to active transportation projects in the province.
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