Editor: Re.: Bow River Bridges
Dear Mayor Borrowman and members of town council: In case you missed my recent letter to the editor of the Rocky Mountain Outlook of July 14, I have enclosed a copy of the same in which I shared my thoughts on the traffic regulations and the use of the two bridges over the Bow River, the one for vehicles and the other one for pedestrians.
During a warm and sunny Sunday afternoon recently I witnessed a good dozen pedestrians on the pedestrian bridge, together with four or five cyclists, moving in both directions and getting along with each other quite well.
As evidenced, it does not even require a dividing line down the middle of the bridge deck. On the other hand, I cannot remember having ever seen a cyclist on the vehicle bridge.
By the same token, one bridge over the Bow River in Calgary which I use frequently, is also shared by pedestrians and cyclists jointly without any complications and traffic on that bridge is constant and significantly heavier.
My question therefore, is when will the Town formalize what the public has established de facto and designate the pedestrian bridge for dual use for both, pedestrians and cyclists, and remove the 30 km/h speed limit?
Dieter Remppel,
Canmore
