This just in from Peter Ladner:
The Point Grey Road Seaside Greenway has come into its own as a big attractive paved space for active transportation. It is being “mobbed” by cyclists, runners, walkers, pushers, and tiny riders from all over the city. (I’m still looking for the “gates” alleged by some to have been built with its closure to arterial traffic.)
It’s like some piece of pandemic preparedness infrastructure that has really come into its own.
But ironically, at Hastings Mill Park, just before the new wide sidewalk from McDonald finally connects with Jericho Beach, the default standard sidewalk is graphically exposed as inadequate. People coming off the widened sidewalks east of Alma, or the wide gravel walkways in Jericho park, find themselves– even before our 2m distancing habits– pushed into desire-lines of muddy side-tracks all the more used now.
