Tourist information lacking in Borden-Carleton
No one at railway museum to assist passengers to see sights of Borden-Carleton, or view Confederation Bridge
Recently, just last week, I ventured down to the pier in Borden-Carleton. I stopped at the Railway Museum Building partway down the pier. This is where the tour buses come to let people disembark to view the bridge — a close vantage point.
Inside two hours, five buses arrived and let passengers off. The museum is closed and has been for a few years, no coffee shop or refreshment/newsstand, no provincial tourist representative, nothing in the form of tourist information. A plaque with misspelled tourist information stands on the platform.
They (the bus passengers) were asking the bus driver questions which he couldn’t answer. It’s uncanny how
colloquial we are in operating some tourist departments. There was absolutely nobody at that tourist stop to assist passengers in their quest to see the sights of Borden-Carleton and to view the bridge.
There should be a guide stationed there, the museum should be restocked and Strait Crossing should have a guide explaining the history and details of the bridge.
I’ll bet that not one MLA who will read this letter will do anything about it. We can’t expect to lay the onus on the town of Borden-Carleton. The first couple years, after the bridge opened, we had a fully stocked museum in this building that stands empty now. The museum held artifacts dealing with the ferries and the gateway area. It was an amazing array of antiques and appreciated by all who visited.
I’m sure Heritage P.E.I. has a truckload of nautical antiques in storage, gathering dust but never to be destined to the Gateway area. Today there is nothing in this forgotten town. If this were anywhere else in the province, the Railway Park would be an astonishing tourist attraction but because we’re Borden-Carleton the government doesn’t see fit to put people to work assisting the travelling public. I know they would in Cavendish where they wouldn’t put up with this kind of neglect.
Give some school kids a summer job, get the community involved. I don’t want to sound like Mr. Trump but ‘make Borden-Carleton great again!’