{"id":199149,"date":"2019-01-24T05:08:58","date_gmt":"2019-01-24T10:08:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/?p=199149"},"modified":"2019-01-24T05:08:58","modified_gmt":"2019-01-24T10:08:58","slug":"parks-canada-puts-brakes-on-icefields-parkway-bike-trail-in-alberta","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/2019\/01\/24\/parks-canada-puts-brakes-on-icefields-parkway-bike-trail-in-alberta\/","title":{"rendered":"Parks Canada puts brakes on Icefields Parkway bike trail in Alberta"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_199150\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-199150\" style=\"width: 960px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/Parks-Canada.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-199150\" src=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/Parks-Canada.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"960\" height=\"720\" srcset=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/Parks-Canada.jpg 960w, https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/Parks-Canada-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/Parks-Canada-768x576.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 960px) 100vw, 960px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-199150\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">The agency had budgeted about $66 million to build the 107-kilometre route, along with other facilities such as parking lots, campsites and washrooms. (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/ParksCanada\/photos\/a.179253688757921\/2495840903765843\/?type=3&amp;theater\">File photo<\/a>: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/ParksCanada\/\">Parks Canada\/Facebook<\/a>)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Parks Canada says it won&#8217;t go ahead with a controversial plan to build a bike trail along the scenic Icefields Parkway between Banff and Jasper National Parks.<\/p>\n<p>The agency had budgeted about $66 million to build the 107-kilometre route, along with other facilities such as parking lots, campsites and washrooms.<\/p>\n<p>It says that money will now be spent elsewhere in the national park system.<\/p>\n<p>The highway is considered a classic cycling tour, but riders are restricted to its narrow shoulder.<\/p>\n<p>Parks Canada had proposed a separate, paved route buffered from the busy road by 10 to 20 metres of trees.<\/p>\n<p>But that idea was criticized as it became clear how much of the wildlife-rich valley the trail would eat up.<\/p>\n<p>Even Parks officials acknowledged it would induce further development.<\/p>\n<p>Environmental groups calculated that just the trail would pave an area of national park equal to 116 football fields.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Parks Canada says it won&#8217;t go ahead with a controversial plan to build a bike trail along the scenic Icefields &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":33,"featured_media":199150,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[79],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-199149","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-travel","mauthors-the-canadian-press"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/199149","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/33"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=199149"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/199149\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/199150"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=199149"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=199149"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=199149"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}