Last week, the Peace River Pride Society painted a crosswalk in Pride colours near Kinsmen Park.
Shortly after, the crosswalk appeared to be intentionally marked by tire tracks from a vehicle.
This is disappointing.
The Pride crosswalk was requested by the Peace River Pride Society and went through the Town’s approved process for community crosswalk paintings.
Two more crosswalk paintings are scheduled this month through the same process: one for the Royal Canadian Legion and one for the Peace River Aboriginal Interagency Committee.
These crosswalks are community projects, and they should be treated with respect.
Under the Traffic Safety Act, intentionally doing burnouts on Town streets (and crosswalks) is called stunting and comes with an $852 fine. If a crosswalk is intentionally damaged in another way (such as scraping off the paint, painting over it, or defacing it in another way), that could qualify as a mischief offence under the Canadian Criminal Code.
People may have different views on community initiatives, but damaging public spaces is not an acceptable way to express them.
The way forward is paved by talking and building, not attacking and breaking.
We're all living by the river's edge together.
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