Gyro’s road to nowhere

Dear Editor: Every time I walk by Gyro Park I see a total waste of tax dollars.

I refer to the road to nowhere, with an estimated cost of more than $500,000. Now to add insult to that cost the City has parked a portable washroom next to the road to nowhere.

A portable toilet which is totally inaccessible to disabled persons? It fails to meet the requirement under the building code that every washroom facility has to be accessible to the disabled.

Now if vendors want to use the road they have to pay the City to remove and replace the bollards. Go figure!

There was an option to this costly road intrusion into Gyro Park, as I have stated before.

The option would have been to expand the Gyro Park up to the north end of City Hall adding more grass and trees into the downtown core and install permanent public accessible washrooms in line with City Hall. This would also bring the garden and grass on the Main Street side (north of City Hall) into Gyro Park.

This option would have added more green space and trees, it would have provided year-round public amenities, most important of all it would have cost thousand of dollars less. It would have also met one of the objectives that the City has undertaken with the Parks and Recreation Master Plan committee, which is not only to protect the parks from commercial intrusion but also to explore the development of more park space within the city!

A great costly intrusion into a great park space that cannot be reversed. Sad! Jake Kimberley Penticton