Cycling Club Wants Dedicated Trails

Tuesday, December 04, 2007 03:47 AM

Prince George Cycling Club details plans for multiple trails next door to new golf course

The Prince George Cycling Club is pressing the City of Prince George for some changes to the Golf Club’s new course plans.

The club says the current plan will hurt their mountain biking trails. They suggest the City will lose a significant tourism opportunity if the trails are lost.

The Club says working with the City and the Golf Club, they will

improve the planning and safety of trails by designing, building and maintaining the trails to international mountain biking standards
fund raise,
organize volunteers
manage and maintain the trails and
work with the city to develop long term plans.

The Club has asked Council to see that the Golf Club retain a strip for the mountain bicycling trails. There is a strip that has been offered on Crown land, but reps say they aren't certain if their concerns have been completely addressed.

The Group says the pilot project they are developing means the trails would be built to Mountain Bike Standards so they can get insurance to cover liability.

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Posted by: 0alex0 on December 4 2007 6:45 AM

Does anyone know where I can see a higher resolution version of this map?

Posted by: seamutt on December 4 2007 8:04 AM

Dedicated trails will be a great idea if it is possible to keep the ATV's and motorcycles off them. In the College Hts area the ATV's are destroying the trails making them difficult to walk on and almost impossible to mountain bike.

Posted by: editor on December 4 2007 10:51 AM

Oalex0, if you want to see the map, click on this link
[url]http://www.city.pg.bc.ca/cityhall/agendas/2007/2007_12_03.pdf[url] that will allow you to download the full Council Agenda, which includes the power point presentation presented by the Cycling Club.
Elaine Macdonald

Posted by: Chadermando on December 4 2007 8:02 PM

I disagree about the dirt bikes. It was the dirt bikers that originally built all those trails and worked them in to where the mountain bikers could then come and ride them... its also the dirt bikes that keep the underbrush down once the trails have been worn in.

I will agree however that the ATV do wreck a lot of the trails and it is their units that do all the trail damage.

Posted by: realitysetsin on December 4 2007 10:14 PM

My experience with keepin ATV and dirt bikes of mountain bike trails is to have some tight corner and other non ATV and dirt bike friendly trail features. It doesn't take much.

Good luck with the fight PG Bikers! Don't expect much from the government, other than them tearing down your technical trail features.