Overview
The RMOW is leading the development of a non-motorized Recreation Trails Strategy (RTS) that will guide future decisions about how we develop, improve, access, fund, and manage trails and trail amenities (e.g., staging areas, signage, etc.). The RTS will not specify the number, location, or types of trails. This will be the focus for a future and more detailed non-motorized Trails Master Plan. To learn more about the RTS, see the tab below.
Phase 3 Engagement
For each of Whistler’s 11 trail network areas, we looked at the general suitability of the area for trail development and made some specific recommendations for community review and feedback. The draft content is included in the RTS Core Content document.
View the phase 3 engagement summary.
Phase 2 Engagement
The previous round of community engagement took place in March-April, 2022 and the input received indicated a high level of support for the direction related to the being set for the project topic areas. See the Public Engagement Summary – Phase 2 document. For more background about the project, please visit the RTS project page.
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Ask us anything about the project, the Initial Directions, or this engagement opportunity.
How/ why do trials bikes get classified as non-motorized, and thereby included in future planning and trail development? These machines are not street legal and must be shuttled to a trail head and they burn gas. It strikes me that any encouragement of an activity that increases emissions is inconsistent with our values.
It seems to be putting the cart before the horse to proceed with this strategy before there is a master plan for Trail development. Why is there no Trail master plan? How many trails should be built? How many people will these trails serve? How will this number of people be managed with washrooms, traffic, parking, garbage, wildlife interference and on and on. These visions of how and where a trail network should be created need to be answered first... don't they??
In the Trail Funding topic, one of the initial directions is to "Investigate the economic value of volunteer labor contributed to maintaining the network and develop a risk assessment". What risks are you referring to? Risk of trail maintenance not being done properly by volunteers? Risk that volunteers will hurt themselves while doing work? Risk that opportunities for volunteer trail maintenance will affect the pool of volunteers available for other activities?
Under the two main topics of Commercial and Event Use and Trail Funding is there a way how the S2S Squamish to Pemberton network (SORCA, WORCA, PVTA, PORCA) can be considered in the solutions package? We all have the same challenges and it would make sense (if possible) to have one working proposal we can all work with.