LETTER: Don’t pave the trails

The entrance to Rennie’s River Trail on Elizabeth Avenue in St. John's. — Telegram file photo

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It is beyond my human comprehension to digest the fact that the City of St. John’s is actually contemplating paving some of our beautiful walking trails in this city!

What on God’s green Earth are they thinking?

I was just blown away when I read this. This can’t be a reality?

A few years ago, I was walking the Burma trail to Quidi Vidi, and I was just a few minutes from the lookout, and before I knew it there was a bike almost under my legs. Yes, it happened that quickly. I could have been killed.

Are you going to allow skateboarders and the like to use these trails?

I repeat, this has to be a joke — paving nature’s trails?

Natural trails are meant to be to just that. The thought of paving them goes against our God-given common sense, which is, unfortunately, very uncommon today.

Clifton Small

St. John's

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