Editor: Regarding the Quarry Lake Park project: Cycle groups meet and know where they are going because existing paths are more like roads. True, we don’t want to encourage more activity in the wildlife corridors, but a little recreational trail isn’t going to change the present cycling activity in the mountains.
It won’t draw passionate cyclists from wildlife corridors to a little day recreation area, not even kids’ biking camps for goodness sakes. Saying it will draw people out of the corridor is an excuse to pass the project and nothing more – think about it.
The Quarry Park project is an urbanization project to provide (1) even more fun. Always more, like adding another ride at an amusement park. And (2) grooming, like a private lawn. If the concern is grooming, then why not look into the social strata where our servers and minimum wage workers can’t afford window coverings, and offer a gift in that direction?
Research has proven that when economically challenged neighbourhoods receive help in beautifying their homes, crime decreases. So there is an overall positive lift in human nature that ripples out into the community.
Sorry to mix a social project idea with recreation, but it’s an idea that’s new and beneficial that doesn’t require name calling.
If the desired and perceived need to change Quarry Park right now is so pressing, simply put up some signs, please. Our international guests sometimes picnic on the rocks at the dog park and some kerfuffles have occurred.
Tova Jansen,
Canmore
