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Originally Posted by KTrain
No person will be barred from visiting Moraine Lake. It will be shared AND protected. If anything it's going to be more crowded up there as there will be a steady stream of people going to the top and not being turned away at the bottom (5000 cars/day last year rather than 900 cars allowed up).
I get you just want to be able to drive to the doorstep of your destination, walk around a few shops and then jump back in your vehicle but 5000 other cars doing it at the same time would make all the destinations intolerable.
We need to added barriers to entry so the crowds (cars and people) don't force us to double lane every road in our National and Provincial Parks.
Maybe we do want some European cities have done. Alternate days that certain vehicles can enter the parks. Half get Saturday and half get Sunday. Alternate every weekend.  |
I just think the best way to protect it is to spread the demand for these beautiful outdoor spaces amongst more outdoor spaces. We have cool things all around the area; we just need to build infrastructure to get you there so we aren't all going to the same handful of destinations. I'd also like to see a Fluvarium go into one of the lakes/wetlands/streams around Banff, so there is some low-hanging fruit just waiting for us to execute on.
And where there aren't natural destinations let's sprinkle in some gondolas, zip lines, gravity go-karts, etc. as that'll also alleviate pressure on the main sites.
As for Moraine Lake, do they even have a candy store there? That's kind of my baseline requirement for a destination to be cool. There's one in Lake Louise, one in Canmore, one in Waterton, one in Banff, one in Jasper...I don't go to Moraine Lake because I'm pretty sure it doesn't have one so for that reason, I'm out.