The Rope Runner is finally gone, and the bigger picture of this prime location comes into play yet again.
The Red Bridge developer had agreed to build a nice pedestrian bridge across the upper Mamquam Blind Channel to the Smoke Bluffs Park in Phase 1 of their development.
Somehow the planning dept agreed in changing that location to being directly beside the Highway.
One of their reasons is because of the deficiency of the Highway sidewalk being too narrow for all the pedestrian and bike traffic, especially with snow.
This is true, but I think the Ministry of Transportation and Infrastructure (MOTI) should be responsible for widening its Highway sidewalks in such an urban environment.
The potential of a beautiful nature loop trail from the Adventure Centre through Rose Park, over a picturesque little bridge and back through the Smoke Bluffs has been lost.
The Rope Runner parking lot should be built to accommodate the tourists coming.
Could there be a better attraction than a flat “nature loop” around our downtown estuary starting and finishing at the Adventure Centre—30 seconds off the Highway?
With the District’s $600,000 purchase of the Drenka lands (required to enhance and connect the Smoke Bluffs Park to the water), we thought council and the planning dept could have envisioned this loop trail and forced the developer to stick to the original plan, regardless of the difficulties of building it.
John Harvey
Squamish
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