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Making a Case For Cleaning Up our Rail Yard

By Ben Meisner

When you pass through Quesnel, you can’t help but realize why Rocky Mountain Train Tours decided that their tourist trains will stop in Quesnel rather than Prince George. 

I had occasion to pass through Quesnel the other day and decided to have a look at what the city had to offer for the tour. 

Well for starters, the street along which the tourist will walk is lined with flowers, our down town streets are lined with street people. 

The well maintained parks are within throwing distance of where the train will make its nightly stop. 

There are walking trails within meters of the train and there are plenty of hotels with a park like atmosphere within blocks as well. 

Rocky Mountain may not have wanted us to hear the truth, but the truth of the matter is, that any sane person looking at where the trains should stop would naturally choose Quesnel. 

That raises the question of what we are doing to improve the area where the Via Rail stops in tPrince George. 

Either we begin to market the area (which we haven’t) or we simply will lose the stop to a place which offers the same atmosphere as Quesnel. 

For God’s sake let’s not have another study as to what we should do; we all know what the problem is; now let’s get on with fixing it. 

That, is one man's opinion.

 

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