The Galloping Goose trail in Victoria is built on an old railbed. That means it’s pretty flat but not necessarily in the optimal location. I used to commute to Royal Roads University by bike using the Goose, so I know it quite well.

Some people have misread this article as suggesting that the Galloping Goose trail would be “turned into a road” in the Colwood Corners area. I actually read the fucking article, so this blog post is to set the record straight.

Every morning I’d pop out of the trail here, dodging around the construction sign:

There’s a sign telling you to walk your bike down to the intersection at Nob Hill Road and wait for the light – but I hate breaking flow, especially when it means leaving for work 5 minutes earlier. So instead, I’d dash across the highway (to those three rocks) like Frogger:

Turner Lane Development is proposing to exchange the trail and highway, swapping the blue and green lines turn the green trail into a road and give bikes some of the blue road:

Unlike all townward municipalities, Colwood hasn’t paid to have their portion of the Goose paved, so I guess it’s reasonable to jump to the conclusion that council hates it. I think there’s a big potential for Colwood Corners to be a bicycle tourism destination, since it’s the only commercial cluster the Goose passes directly through. It has a Pig and a Serious Coffee, so it’s already a good place to stop, but paving the trail and dealing with the highway crossing would make cyclists feel welcome.