Public feedback sought for revised section of waterfront trail
The City of Thunder Bay is asking for public feedback on a revised route for a key section of its planned waterfront trail.
The feedback will inform the city’s long-term plan to build a continuous waterfront trail running approximately 13.5 kilometres, from Fisherman’s Park in the north to Mission Marsh Conservation Area in the south.
The proposed route has recently been adjusted for one northern section of the trail near the mouth of the Current River.
The new route would direct pedestrians and cyclists from Marina Park Drive over a planned railway overpass onto MacDougall Street, then onto Cumberland Street North, until it meets with the previously proposed trail section at Grenville Avenue.
The new proposal replaces an earlier route along Shipyard Road through Richardson Terminal, which officials have deemed unfeasible.
Residents can view maps and provide feedback through a brief online survey, available from May 6 to May 20 at thunderbay.ca/GetInvolved. Paper copies of the survey will also be available at city hall and all Thunder Bay Public Library branches. – tbnewswatch.com
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Two points here:
- I do not consider Cumberland Street or Fort William Road trails. They are streets with traffic. Lots of traffic. Not trails. Not even close.
- If the trail is not located along the waterfront, then how can it be a waterfront trail?
The whole waterfront trail idea is a joke. Industry owns the waterfront in this city. Its almost all private land. Then there are the railways.
There can never be a real waterfront trail. Just a few trail segments joined by city streets.
If the city’s tourist department promotes this a a waterfront trail system, it will be lying. Tourists will be disappointed.
This also goes for the Trans Canada Trail. City Streets and sidewalks are NOT trails. They are streets and sidewalks. The exact opposite of trails.