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We Create Trails, Car Stops, & Public Transit Options
Our priorities are to :
Work with Pender Island Parks & Recreation Commission (PIPRC) to build multi-use trail from Danny Martin Park (Magic Lake) to the school.
Work with local land owners to build a contiguous path from the Driftwood Center to the Community Hall.
Identify the highest risk transportation areas on the Pender Islands and assess alternatives for improving safety.
Maintain the existing trails built by MAP (including Monty's Trail, Valley Home Farm Trail, Armdale Loop and George Hill East Trail) as well as maintaining the Car Stops established by MAP in 2009
Trails
Trails
MAP has has been instrumental in creating trails on private property on Pender Island, facilitated by partnering with trail groups on other SGIs to provide liability insurance for landowners.
MAP trails: Monty's trail, Valley Home Farm trail, Armadale Loop Trail, George Hill East Trail, and Molly's Trail
Check out MAP's trail maps
Car Stops
Car Stops
Barry Mathias, a founding member of MAP, created the brilliant concept of "Car Stops" in 2008. Essentially, Car Stops are a bus route without a bus! Car Stops are a safe way to hitch a ride when living in an island community where most folks know one another.
Car Stops soon became contagious and spread to many of the other Gulf Islands.
Check out MAP's car stop map.
Public Transport
Public Transport
In 2017 MAP created a bus service, run and operated by volunteers who dedicated hundreds of hours of their time to making the service a success. When COVID hit the community in 2020 the service was discontinued, and the bus sold.
MAP,in conjunction with the SGI Neighborhood House and Lightning Taxi, ran a Pender Taxi Saver pilot program. All Pender Residents 65 years of age and older and those with mobility challenges of any age were eligible to buy half price taxi vouchers for Lightning Taxi rides for on-island trips.
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