Thursday, September 24, 2015
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CBT holds AGM and BBQ in Nakusp
Columbia River Treaty exhibit
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MotoGiro: ready, set...ride See page 3
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Vintage motorbikes visited Nakusp this past weekend See page 6 for story and more photos.
Multi-use trail is a no-go
MotoGiro participants get ready to head up to the Nakusp Hot Springs for the timed races on Sept. 20.
JILLIAN TRAINOR Arrow Lakes News
After meeting with the committee involved in trying to get the rail trail off highway 23 turned into a multi-use use trail, the Village of Nakusp council has decided to keep the site as a walking trail. The biggest issue in the council’s decision was safety. There are blind corners and echo spots. Staff from the village office were out checking the trail, and a motor vehicle came along. They did eventually see it, but because of noise
from the highway, they couldn’t hear it. “We’ve had a lot of people coming in since this has become public, and letting us know that they’ve almost been hit by a bike, or by a quad,” said Karen Hamling, mayor of Nakusp. “Several people have come in, or phoned, and said they’ve almost hit a bike or a quad coming off the trail and crossing the highway. They’re not slowing down, they’re just whipping across.” Another issue, which has come up is the trail isn’t wide enough to have both pedestrian and motor vehicle traffic on it at the same time. In some places, it’s just wide enough for
Photo courtesy of T and L Pepperdine
an ATV. Mayor Hamling has spoken to the mayor in Castlegar, where they have a multi-use trail. However, their trail is really wide, and hits the standard and it can be divided, half for walking, the other half for motorized vehicles. “We’ve been looking into that and we’ve found for B.C. that there isn’t any, we haven’t been able to find any regulations pertaining to the width of a path,” said Susan Smith, a member of the committee trying to make the trail multi-use. “We’re still looking into that, we’re doing more research.”
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