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The Kissing Bridge Trailway: A Down-payment on a Guelph-to-Goderich Trailway?

This article discusses the ingredients needed for the development of a trailway, including people, land, institutions, and resources. It highlights the history of the Kissing Bridge Trailway in Ontario and the role of various stakeholders in its creation. The estimated costs of completing the trailway and next steps are also mentioned.

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The Kissing Bridge Trailway: A Down-payment on a Guelph-to-Goderich Trailway?

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  1. The Kissing Bridge Trailway:A Down-payment on a Guelph-to-Goderich Trailway? Trailhead Ontario Conference June 18, 2012

  2. Kissing Bridge Trailway Trans Canada Trail

  3. Ingredients for a trailway • People • Land • Institutions • Resources

  4. Ingredients for a trailway: People • Vision • Knowledge and skills • Relationships and networks • Commitment

  5. Ingredients for a Trailway: Land • Canadian Pacific Railway operated Guelph to Goderich line, 1904-90 • 1990: Rail line abandoned and bridges pulled. • 1994: Ontario government purchased line • Community groups wanted to create a multi-use recreational trailway

  6. Ingredients for a trailway: Institutions • Province • Community groups • Agricultural organisations • Municipalities • Trans Canada Trail

  7. Institutional arrangements: the Lease, September, 1997 • Wellington County and Waterloo Region • 5 year term (1997-2002) with two renewals, 2002-07, 2007-12 • Improvements • Liability coverage

  8. Trailway Steward Group Agreements •  Guelph Hiking Trail Club • Conestoga-Winterbourne Optimist Club/Grand Valley Trail Association • Lions Club of Elmira • Linwood Lions Club • Golden Triangle Snowmobile Association • Village of Millbank Association, 2009

  9. Trailway Steward Group Agreements •  Grant of authority to manage a Trailway segment for five years • Membership on Trailway Advisory Board • Liaison with abutting landowners • Liability insurance (comprehensive liability and property damage insurance, $1 M) • Specified uses • Infrastructure development • Maintenance

  10. Kissing Bridge Trailway Advisory Board •  Established 1998 • 6 Trailway Steward Groups • 3 agricultural representatives • 3 non-farm landowners • 1 local business representative • Representatives of County and Regional Councils • County/Region support staff

  11. Role of Trailway Advisory Board • Oversee development and management of Trailway • Liaison with community • Fund-raising • Advise County and Regional Councils • Annual reports to Councils

  12. Ingredients for a trailway: resources

  13. Estimated Costs of Trailway Completion

  14. Kissing Bridge Trailway

  15. Next steps

  16. Kissing Bridge Trailway Christopher Gosselin, M.C.I.P., R.P.P., Manager of Environmental Planning, Planning, Housing, and Community Services Department, Regional Municipality of Waterloo, 150 Frederick Street, Kitchener, Ontario, N2G 4J3. Phone: 519-575-4501 CGosselin@regionofwaterloo.ca

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