Image: City of Chilliwack / The city's existing pump track facility behind the Chilliwack Cultural Centre is shown. The city of Chilliwack says two new beginner pump tracks are coming to Chilliwack and should be completed by the end of 2023. The beginner pump tracks will be built in Vedder Park in Sardis and in Jinkerson Park up in Promontory.
Pump tracks coming to Chilliwack parks

Beginner pump tracks coming to two Chilliwack parks

Jul 20, 2023 | 2:05 PM

CHILLIWACK — The City of Chilliwack says two new beginner pump tracks are coming to Chilliwack and should be completed by the end of 2023.

According to a post on Facebook Thursday (July 20), beginner pump tracks will be built in Vedder Park in Sardis and in Jinkerson Park up in Promontory.

Chilliwack city council approved a request for proposal contract at its meeting on Tuesday, July 18 that would have Velosolutions Canada West Ltd. design and build two pump tracks at a cost of $499,392.77.

According to a staff report by Richard Fortin, parks planning manager for the city of Chilliwack, the city’s primary pump track facility was established in 2020, featuring two tracks that were tailored to intermediate and advanced skill levels. The staff report boasted that the facility has achieved “remarkable success by attracting a diverse range of users and skill levels, not only from the local community but also from around the globe.” The success of the main track highlighted what the city says was a need for beginner-level skill development and training areas.

In response to this demand, Fortin wrote in his staff report, an RFP (request for proposal) was issued to locate and procure an experienced proponent that would be capable of creating a smaller, more basic pump track facility, with the intended purpose of providing an environment where beginners could learn the fundamental techniques of riding a pump track.

The pump track at Vedder Park will be an estimated 84 metres in length. Its total area has been calculated as 719 square metres.

Image: City of Chilliwack via Velosolutions Canada West Ltd. / The proposed beginner pump track at Vedder Park as proposed by a rendering from Velosolutions Canada West Ltd.

The pump track at Jinkerson Park will be 73 metres in length on an area of 742 square metres, slightly larger than the one at Vedder Park.

Image: City of Chilliwack via Velosolutions West Ltd. / The proposed rendering of the beginner pump track at Jinkerson Park up in Promontory.

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