Friends of the Cross Town Trail

10 years ago, the Cross Town Trail was installed beside the York Street Train Station. Let's finish the trail, just like the +70km of rails converted to trails

[Friends of the Cross Town Trail @CrossTownTrail]

The former rail corridor between NORTHUMBERLAND ST and SMYTHE ST is the last remaining block of over 350 blocks converted into trail. This is the safest way for @CityFredGov to complete the #CrossTownTrail. 3/3 #BuyTheLastCorridor #FollowThePlan #fredpoli @Global_NB @infoamfred

[Friends of the Cross Town Trail @CrossTownTrail]

The obligations in the #RailsToTrails policy of our Municipal Plan for @CityFredGov to acquire and convert former rail corridors and train bridges into our City’s trail system have remained unchanged for more than 30 years. 2/3 #fredpoli @Global_NB @infoamfred @CTVAtlantic

[Friends of the Cross Town Trail @CrossTownTrail]

Changing trail maps do not change the #RailsToTrails policy statements in the Municipal Plan. @CityFredGov would go against this policy if they built the #CrossTownTrail over 10 driveways of Argyle Street. 1/3 #fredpoli @Global_NB @infoamfred @CTVAtlantic

[City of Fredericton @CityFredGov]

City Council has unanimously approved conceptual plans to complete the Cross Town Trail, a generational project connecting Fredericton’s multi-use trail network city-wide. Ask your questions and learn more about the project here: https://t.co/du1XCapIuF

[Friends of the Cross Town Trail @CrossTownTrail]

A vote without public notice is not a public vote. @CityFredGov should repeat the vote for the #CrossTownTrail using their normal procedure for open and transparent government. 3/3 #fredpoli @Global_NB @infoamfred @CTVAtlantic

[Friends of the Cross Town Trail @CrossTownTrail]

Without any item on the Agenda, and without any motion added to the Agenda, #fredericton Council violated their own Procedural By-law No. A-19 when they approved the #CrossTownTrail - see section 10.01 (2) and (3). 2/3 #fredpoli @Global_NB @infoamfred @CTVAtlantic

[Friends of the Cross Town Trail @CrossTownTrail]

Council violated their own Procedural By-law No. A-19. @CityFredGov had no authority to bring forward motion on #CrossTownTrail since it was not on Council’s Agenda. 1/3 #fredpoli @Global_NB @infoamfred @CTVAtlantic

[City of Fredericton @CityFredGov]

City Council has unanimously approved conceptual plans to complete the Cross Town Trail, a generational project connecting Fredericton’s multi-use trail network city-wide. Ask your questions and learn more about the project here: https://t.co/du1XCapIuF

[Friends of the Cross Town Trail @CrossTownTrail]

After 25 years without consultation, @CityFredGov plans #CrossTownTrail down Argyle Street with cyclists crossing 10 driveways. The safest trail would follow the former rail corridor and not go down our sidewalks and streets. #fredpoli #fredericton

[Friends of the Cross Town Trail @CrossTownTrail]

@CityFredGov pulls the plug on meaningful public consultation for the #CrossTownTrail. Without any notice on their Agenda, #fredericton Council call a motion to approve the new plan. No written administrative report. No written feedback from Open House held last week. #fredpoli

[Friends of the Cross Town Trail @CrossTownTrail]

To date, 358 trail users have asked @CityFredGov to keep the #CrossTownTrail in a continuous, protected corridor. #RailsToTrails #fredpoli #fredericton

[Friends of the Cross Town Trail @CrossTownTrail]

This is really about trust in our public approval process and if past approvals by City Council for the Cross Town Trail are followed. 🧵6/6 #RightToKnow #Trust

[Friends of the Cross Town Trail @CrossTownTrail]

After 3 months of waiting for my Right-to-Information (RTI) request, not a single document has been received yet from the City of Fredericton. My first RTI request was “overlooked”, and now a 2nd deadline has passed.
🧵1/6 @MayorKateRogers @JeanneCBC

[Friends of the Cross Town Trail @CrossTownTrail]

Are development plans being approved for the Exhibition Grounds and the York Street Train Station apartment towers BEFORE plans for the Cross Town Trail are announced to residents in Ward 10 and community groups? 🧵5/6

[Friends of the Cross Town Trail @CrossTownTrail]

"Why would you needlessly reroute the trail away from the trail corridor [and instead down Aberdeen St and Argyle St], when you have the abandoned rail corridor right beside it. There is absolutely no safety reason to do this.” @MayorKateRogers @JeanneCBC
https://t.co/vh0P2ln2BO

[Friends of the Cross Town Trail @CrossTownTrail]

@Aidan4jrn Thank you for alerting the public to this serious public safety issue. It is interesting that Fredericton Trails Coalition think that diagonal trail crossings on #Fredericton streets are unsafe. The reality is quite different. @MayorKateRogers @JeanneCBC

[Friends of the Cross Town Trail @CrossTownTrail]

@Aidan4jrn The 2nd gap is b/w Westmorland St. and York St. On Sept. 12, 2005, City Council paid $80,000 for 2/3s of the 5-metre-wide rail corridor saying "it will improve the city's existing trail system". City's Zoning Map shows this route crossing York Street & beside Train Station. 2/2

[Friends of the Cross Town Trail @CrossTownTrail]

@Aidan4jrn The 1st gap in the trail is b/w Smythe and Northumberland. Daily Gleaner reported April 14, 1999 that NBPower moved their regional line to a 6-metre-wide right-of-way to make room for townhouse dev'p and leave "a strip of land to be reserved for the cross-town walking trail". 1/2