Bike path

Some local residents are upset they weren’t told that crews would be out on Gorman Street looking at the potential of having the Trans Canada Trail venture down the street.

Monique Peters presented to council on Monday night, saying she’s concerned because officials have been on resident’s property marking and doing GPS work and they weren’t informed.

She also says there isn’t a lot of room on the street for a cycling route, “We don’t have enough parking, the street is the narrowest street in the city, buses go down there during the school year, it is also a bus training route in the summer.” Peters points out the buses train there because of the railway tracks.

Meantime, Engineering and Works Chair Councillor Tanya Vrebosch provided an update, “When staff are creating a report with options to give us, they have to go out and look and research those options before bringing them to us. That’s what they were doing was researching that option, they will be researching other options.”

She says this is only the beginning of the process with public consultation still to come.

Vrebosch also said, during the council meeting, that there may be room to work on communication from the very beginning of processes.