Questions on Rushbrook Trail parking make for commentary at Council

Parking issues at both ends of Rushbrook trail made for a conversation
topic at Tuesday's City Council session

Councillor Barry Cunningham made the case for a break for city residents this fall and winter when it comes to access to the recently opened Rushbrook Trail.

Speaking at Tuesday's City Council session Mr. Cunningham relayed some concerns he has related to the Seal Cove end of the trail, with trail users wandering through an active industrial area near the ship yard and fish plant there, as well as parking their cars in the wrong location.

The parking issues at both the ends of the trail, made for his focus something that the Council member would like to see addressed in the Spring with an information campaign for trail users, to direct then to less intrusive parking locations.

Opening up parking spots at Rushbrook
Floats for trail users over the winter was
a suggestion from Councillor
Cunningham on Tuesday night

For the short term, he called on Council to allow for Free parking at the Rushbrook Floats end of the trail, noting that volumes of use of the lot in the fall and winter traditionally fall off and how providing for free parking in that area will help to ensure that Prince Rupert residents make use of the trail through the next six months.

"What I'd like to see, and I thought we had sort of settled this a couple of years ago, that in the winter months and we can determine that October 31st to April or sometime ... that we give people free parking at Rushbrook so that they can go down there, enjoy that trail and get some exercise in the winter. We should be encouraging people to use it and then set a pattern so when we have time to put signage up at the other end  (Seal Cove)" -- Councillor Cunningham at Council Tuesday evening

You can review his commentary on the issue from the City's Video archive starting at the twenty four minute mark.



As Councillor Cunningham noted, Parking has been a frequent theme when it comes to the Rushbrook area, some of the past themes can be reviewed below:

July 2018 -- City offers up spill over parking options for Rushbrook Trail users
April 2015 -- City staff highlights the merits of the Rushbrook Improvement Area fund for council
April 2015 -- Council to hear of $200,000 improvement to Rushbrook Floats, as well as other Rushbrook issues tonight
March 2015 -- Rushbrook Floats issues received by City Council
August 1 -- Council gets agitated over Atlin and Rushbrook Floats parking provisions

For more items of interest related to the Tuesday Council session see our Council Timeline Feature, as well as our archive of notes related to the session.

Further background on Council Discussion themes can be reviewed on our Council Discussion page.

Cross posted from the North Coast Review