No Roadway for Canmore's Pathway!

I disagree with widening and paving the West Bow River Pathway. Artificial light is not needed or wanted here. Environmental damage, greenhouse gas emissions and high bike speeds will result from paving this path. Allocate public funds to more urgent community needs, such as affordable housing.

3 sisters drive is wide enough to add a bike lane.

Crushed gravel is more environmentally friendly. Paved roads increase heat and add to climate change.

Yes, gravel is wonderful in how it cushions and gives to your weight, how it crunches underneath your shoes or tires, and how it remains cool in the summer.

I ran the trail tonight - from Larch to Three Sisters - the beautiful, forgiving crunch of gravel - my knees & joints appreciated it - apart from that harsh concrete near the sulphur outflow. Really going to be horrible for everyone apart from bikers when they eagerly smother this with asphalt - it'll be ugly, it'll be a high-speed bike path & it will force runners & walkers into the wildlife corridors - seeking softer trails. This really hasn't been thought through at all.

This is a wildlife corridor we are talking about putting in a paved road with lights. Totally unnecessary!

Another decision coming from town council and bureaucrats that is not driven by citizens request. The path works fine now. If it needs to be tweaked, that’s OK.

I oppose the plan to widen and pave the pathway. I use it almost daily for walking and love the peacefulness and closeness to nature. That will be destroyed by widening, paving, lighting and more high-speed biking.

Unnecessary and unwanted.Even Calgary doesn't make their bike paths road width, nor do they have lights. That's why bikes have lights on them! Poor idea....

Canmore must not continue to react to increased land use impact by upgrading infrastructure without in-depth and transparent public input and assessment. The future of this town's individuality and functionality, together with the environmental pressures and responsibility of bordering the national park system, rests on the thorough evaluation of each project’s impact on a variety of levels. We must not assume anything.

If there’s not enough pavement for you in the Bow aballey, move to Vancouver. To say/think that “we just don’t understand, were backwards, were not civilised, and the way they do things in cities and elsewhere is better” those thoughts have been used before. We have a words for that kind of thinking: colonization, cultural racism, intolerence of difference. i am so sad that we keep paving paridise. pavings the natural (free) gifts of the bow vally like cool water absorbing and sunlight reflecting ground and soft dirt for bare feet. I feel so confused when people say we ‘need’ to spend thousands of dollars to pave over Earth our mother, Shovel away her winter blanket with the machine that spews neurotoxins, And purchase expensive bicycles. Especially when, for thousands of years, all manner of people young and old with skin of different colours, haved strapped cheep planks of wood to their feet and glided gracefully over the snow to get from one place to another. In cougar Creek where I live , one side is paved and the other is not. I can glide easily downhill on my skis ($100 including wax, boots and poles) down one side And the town needs spending no money on shovelling for I will pack down the trail and the community will pack down the trail with her skis and boots. on the other, i must spend $2000 or more on a bicycle to get down it And you must spend money to mend l the cracks and shovel it. Why?

The gravel trail is what makes it so special. It would further disturb the wildlife and take away from the magic of walking/riding along the river. Please don’t pave this trail.

Please leave this beautiful nature trail pavement free. The gravel is what makes walking and biking it so much more enjoyable. We have enough pavement in our world.

I think that the trail is safe and does not need amending. The gravel path is well maintained and can still have adaptive equipment or baby carriages pushed along, as well as a trail for all others to enjoy. Keep nature in Canmore where we can.

How about spending money on paving Main Street which is disgrace.By any stretch of the imagination this a stupid,waste of tax dollars.

We could only support the Mayor’s plan if it also was 1) heated in winter and 2) was shaded by fruit trees in summer... . In other words - NO! A thousand times NO.

I think that paving the pathway would take away from the “feel” of the area. It would also cost a lot in its rollout and in upkeep. The trail is currently well kept and perfect for walking, running and biking. With the increased use of ebikes and scooters, paving would allow for faster speeds which is a hazard for those walking.

Stop! Leave the land alone, we are not L.A.

Feel it's unfair to homeowners to be building such a wide path and to light the area. Please consider the property values and the overall environment, the animals that frequent the river. Less is more

Thereis so much development in a lot of these pristine areas. Not sure why the town council of Canmore agree to paving a path like this when its not needed. Seems like a continuation of what joni mirchell said way back in 1970 - “they paved paradise and put up a parking lot”.