The Capital Regional District is looking at paying for the trail widening and lighting project's $14 million price tag with a new tax.
As grant funding gets harder to secure, the Capital Regional District is looking at paying for the trail widening and lighting project’s $14 million price tag, with the help of the taxpayer.
According to the CRD, the Galloping Goose and Lochside trails are getting busier and upgrades need to be done.Colin Plant, CRD director and board chair, said the narrow trails with that many users are causing too much congestion. “If we could widen it, it would make it more safe and more accessible to people who perhaps don’t go on it now because they don’t feel safe,” Plant said.The estimated cost to do both, on a 6.6-kilometre section of the trail north of the Selkirk Trestle going past Uptown, is about $14 million.
Plant said while there are grant money opportunities, they are getting harder to secure due to increased interest from districts and municipalities.The CRD is considering a tax levy, that would be would be district-wide to pay for the bill.“Given that, for example, we pay about $20 for regional parks and all the benefits they bring, I can’t help but think we are talking an amount smaller than that,” he explained.
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