jace mace
06-18-2005, 11:34 AM
There are comment forms for the West Van. Mtn. Bike Park at Gleneagles Community Centre (and I surmise also at city Hall and the Civic Centre at 21st.) The form asks questions such as what is missing from the study, suggestions and concerns about the vision of the park, concerns about the location, ways to fund a sustainable park, tips from other areas that have been successful in managing mtn. biking additional comments, and finally to sign up if you want to be kept informed.
So, fill out the card and make your voice heard...typically mtbers in a democracy are a minority voice and (usually) do not represent council, citizen et al..especially this district. That being said mtn. biking does have one transending quality going for it...that it is healthy and for the youth,; we are hear to protect the rights of future mountain bikers and build resources for them: Council knows this and has already started by building phase two of the Gleneagles Adventure Park..hopefully this will continue to W. Van. Mtb. Park.
One caveat: There is already a "surreptitious" (insofar) opponent to the bike park. Paul Hundal (from the SOCIETY PROMOTING ENVIRONMENTAL CONSERVATION/S.P.E.C.) says the park is too close to the old-growth forest of Cypress. He says that mountain bikers will look for their own paths and create many new trails that will cause irreversible soil erosion damage. He says even hikers can cause this: He also says that elevated boardwalks are the only solution. Now I don't know if he knows this, but mtbers like elevated boardwalks, although we call them ladder bridges etc., and even skinnies, depending on their width. Now I am not saying to build ladder bridges in the old-growth (the bike park will not be in it, but will border against it); but if their is a problem with sensitive ecology, erosion ,etc. in the proposed park; bikers can build these structures to transport themselves over them.
Anyway,'nough said, fill out the form and hopefully we will have more terrain and alternatives on Cypress (and not choices made for us...posted in other topics in other threads; you know what I'm talking about.) More comments later.
So, fill out the card and make your voice heard...typically mtbers in a democracy are a minority voice and (usually) do not represent council, citizen et al..especially this district. That being said mtn. biking does have one transending quality going for it...that it is healthy and for the youth,; we are hear to protect the rights of future mountain bikers and build resources for them: Council knows this and has already started by building phase two of the Gleneagles Adventure Park..hopefully this will continue to W. Van. Mtb. Park.
One caveat: There is already a "surreptitious" (insofar) opponent to the bike park. Paul Hundal (from the SOCIETY PROMOTING ENVIRONMENTAL CONSERVATION/S.P.E.C.) says the park is too close to the old-growth forest of Cypress. He says that mountain bikers will look for their own paths and create many new trails that will cause irreversible soil erosion damage. He says even hikers can cause this: He also says that elevated boardwalks are the only solution. Now I don't know if he knows this, but mtbers like elevated boardwalks, although we call them ladder bridges etc., and even skinnies, depending on their width. Now I am not saying to build ladder bridges in the old-growth (the bike park will not be in it, but will border against it); but if their is a problem with sensitive ecology, erosion ,etc. in the proposed park; bikers can build these structures to transport themselves over them.
Anyway,'nough said, fill out the form and hopefully we will have more terrain and alternatives on Cypress (and not choices made for us...posted in other topics in other threads; you know what I'm talking about.) More comments later.