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Nose Hill - The Shocking Truth

This is the same Nose Hill trail map, but we have re-worded the legend to distinguish trails banned to cyclists.

Nose Hill map

This seems pretty innocuous until you include the undesignated trails that are banned to cyclists but remain open to pedestrians.

To better illustrate this, we have scanned part of the original map from Parks & Recreation and colored the undesignated (dotted red) trails according to MAC's declared management strategy.

This is the original map from Parks & Recreation:

Original map

The dotted red trails do not show up on the main Nose Hill map, but if we color them according to MAC's declared management strategy, we get:

Enhanced map

  • Bikes are banned from all but the red and purple trail.
  • Pedestrians have unrestricted access to all trails except the green one.

Closing the green trail to pedestrians is obviously no big deal given their choice of alternate routes.

 

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