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Nichol Road ‘remix’ plan proposed City proposes separated pedestrian walkway, in addition to bike lanes, narrower motorvehicle lanes to deal with safety issues on main route to Revelstoke Mountain Resort Aaron Orlando
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The microphone boom gives it away. A stuntman strapped into a sled teeters precariously on the edge of a cliff near the Nels Nelsen Ski Jump in Mount Revelstoke National Park on April 12. The production crew for Mountain Men was filming a scene at the location, which involved an injured man in a sled going over the cliff. The film stars Chace Crawford and Tyler Labine, who portray brothers that return to their hometown of Revelstoke for a wedding. Once there, they embark on a journey of discovery together after a backcountry mishap. Producer Jason James and writer/director Cam Labine filmed a wedding scene at the Revelstoke United Church on April 9. After some more shooting in town, the crew will be relocating to a property just outside of Revelstoke for much of the filming. Aaron Orlando/Revelstoke Times Review
The City of Revelstoke’s Development Services department has unveiled a proposed solution to traffic issues on Nichol Road. Since the opening of Revelstoke Mountain Resort, the roadway has been the main route to the resort. However, the road travels through the Arrow Heights Elementary School 30 km/h zone, leading to safety concerns, especially since there is no sidewalk on the road. A hill on Nichol Road by the school ices over periodically, and has sent several cars sliding out of control into the snowbanks and trees in the school zone. A nine-page report was presented by Development Services Department Director Mike Thomas at the City of Revelstoke’s April 10 Development Services Committee meeting. The report lists possible options, and calls for a “remix” plan that focuses on creating a sidewalk separated from the roadway by a swale (more or less a shallow drainage ditch). At the April 10 meeting, and in his report, Thomas explained that the long-term plan for Revelstoke Mountain Resort warrants a four-lane, curbed roadway through Nichol Road. But that’s expensive, Thomas explained, and the resort isn’t currently developed enough to warrant a four-lane roadway. “There area lots of people who want a sidewalk on every street, [but] that means we have to maintain it,” Thomas said. Another issue is storm-water management. If you build a curbed roadway, you’re creating a river that needs to be piped away; Arrow Heights doesn’t have storm sewers, so they’d need to be built from the bottom up, which is also very expensive. Thomas explained building curbs also means trucking the snow away, which has significant life-cycle costs. The final consideration is a sewer main that runs along the roadway. Currently, no residences on a long stretch of Nichol Road are hooked up to the pipe, but a bylaw in place requires them to do so when their septic systems fail. Thomas said it wouldn’t be ideal to pave over the pipe, then chew it up as hook-ups are added. The report also explored creating a separate multi-use path for pedestrians and cyclist, but found it would actually decrease safety for cyclists and pedestrians. The proposed ‘remix’ option calls for reducing the width of each lane from about 12 feet to 10 feet, to make way for cycling lanes on either side. The pedestrian path would be on the north side of the roadway, on the side of Arrow Heights Elementary School. It would be separated from the roadway by a swale that is approximately three metres wide.
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