Moose Jaw Times-Herald: Police association proposes bicycle skills park

Executive committee refers proposal for further review

Cpl. Taylor Mickleborough, president
of the Moose Jaw Police Association,
speaks about the proposed bicycle skills park
at Monday's executive committee meeting.
Times-Herald photo by Lisa Goudy

By Lisa Goudy

Moose Jaw might get a bicycle skills park.

“Anything that will encourage people of all ages and especially young people to get more active … is a great thing,” said Jim Large, cyclist and president of the Moose Jaw Pavers Road and Mountain Bike Club. “From what I know of the project with the city police union offering to foot some of the costs and do a lot of the work, I think it’s fantastic.”

Cpl. Taylor Mickleborough, president of the Moose Jaw Police Association, made the association’s proposal for Saskatchewan’s first-ever bicycle skills park before executive committee at Monday’s meeting.

The association’s request is for the city to donate a minimum of one-acre of land for the park, preferably at the field west of YaraCentre on High Street West. That would be a size comparable to a soccer field. The request also includes a request for the city to secure sources of clean fill dirt and take over management of the park when it is complete.

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