£500,000 of public money to pay for a cycle track?

[Chop Suey]

http://www.thisisjersey.com/2009/09/15/deputy-in-bid-for-%c2%bdm-cycle-track-in-east/

A MOVE to allocate £500,000 of public money to pay for a cycle track from Gorey to town has been tabled by Grouville Deputy Carolyn Labey.

The Deputy has lodged a States proposal to use cash made from car parking to finance the project.

She said that there was a route in mind for the track and that she had been offered help from the local Territorial Army unit and visiting UK regiments to build the necessary roads and tracks.

The western cycle track that runs from Corbière to St Helier is very popular and there has been talk of creating a similar link out east for many years. Deputy Labey has submitted her proposition as an amendment to the States Business Plan, which is to be debated by politicians next week.

What do you think? Is the money worth it?

[Ashley]

I think it's a great idea.  Would be AMAZED if they did it for 500k more like 3 million.  Still worth it IMO.  Get people on their bikes!

[Chop Suey]

I agree. 

[Calimachon]

As has been stated previously , the Island needs healthy organ donors so cycling should be encouraged as much as possible.
So long as the new track goes nowhere near the golf course i,m all for it , otherwise I shall have to hone my ball hitting skills to a much finer degree, then again , read the above paragraph one more time!

Rumour has it they are going to use one of the golf establishments to put the cycle track on.  I don't think it will be the Royal at Grouville, far to prestigious for a mere cycle race track but maybe the one at La Moye as a natural extension from the The Playing Fields.  I hear that they are at this very moment arranging groups of youngsters with spades and forks to ready the ground.