City and school district secret plan to reduce track to two lanes

What's the problem? It's much easier to get in everyone's way with only two lanes, though some of the ghetto divas that waddle around my track probably can't even fit into 2 lanes.

This sounds like fun! Let me get the ball rolling in true LRC style.

OMG! This criminal and the AD should be shot for even considering this action. This is just the start as other institutions will also start removing lanes from their tracks!!!

I blame Title IX! Let me guess, the men's team will only be allowed to use one lane while the women's program will get to use both lanes? Why won't anyone advocate for men on the track?

Chill everyone! If we start a petition, both the school and the real estate developer will cancel this plan and they will move the school and the subsidized housing somewhere else. Is Greg still around to let us know how this stuff works in Canada?

Good riddance to those outside lanes!!! They are only needed for sprints and who cares about those events?

Hell yeah, previous poster! Real distance runners don't need those extra lanes. I never even use lane 2.

Nike is clearly at fault here! If they weren't ruining the sport with their springy shoes and condoning drugs then no one would have considered encroaching upon that track. In fact, they should be forced to build a new track with ALL NINE LANES to atone for Albert Saladbar's antics.

If I ran 8 x 400 yards on that cinder track with a 100 meters recovery on the unkempt rugby field, what could I run for a 5K cross country race?

Two lane tracks are a hoax, bruh! Here's an article from Paranoid Jogger with graphs to prove it.

Sounds like Seb Coe is trying to kill the sport...again!

It's me - super coach SJ and I can make anyone a champion using that unimproved cinder loop.

Kipchoge has no problem training on sub-standard dirt tracks. You all need to harden up.

Haha, Canucks! Looks like your pretty boy Prime Minister failed. Trump would have built a casino and hotels on the track and torn down the school for a parking garage instead of leaving a sub-standard facility. WAGGAKAGAMAGAWAGGA 2020!!!

POTD

Here is the Change.org petition that they started.....

https://www.change.org/p/vic-high-promised-8-lane-metric-track-now-under-threat-as-result-of-undisclosed-land-grab-by-city-and-gvsd?recruiter=873840716&utm_source=share_petition&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=share_email_responsive&recruited_by_id=1d6b9210-4df7-11e8-9e10-d9005b18ffc6

Sorry, I read your overlong post and couldn't find it: exactly who loses out if this plan goes through? Who other than the PE class still uses a cinder track? I wouldn't even walk my dog there.

Current is a 400-yard cinder track.

Promised to stakeholders and students: 400-metre rubber track.

plus turf field, lights and newer seating.

It's all here, I just checked the link:

https://athleticsillustrated.com/high-school-track-project-sidelined-by-secret-city-plan-for-socialized-housing-its-down-to-a-useless-two-lanes/

Who needs more than 2 lanes anyway? You don't host track meets in cinder so no change.

Dude, it's in the original post and link, it's supposed to be renovated to 8 lane rubber

It seems extremely silly, bordering on unbelievable, that a project of this scale would be hamstrung by an easement of 8 meters.

Tracks being reduced to make room for socialized housing, there you go that's just what you get living in a socialist country like Canada. Here in America, homeless people have sense to not sleep on the tracks so we don't have a problem. Good luck with your overthrow, let us know if you need to borrow any guns.

They should count their blessings that this isn’t in Edmonton or someone we all know would be outraged and it could indeed get ugly.

THAT and, it was done secretly.

Just for that, people should be fired.

If you know nothing about athletics, you shouldn't preside over an athletics project like this without consultation from someone in the know.

You think this is stupid? Camden County College in Blackwood NJ removed the inside lanes 1 through 4 to make a larger infield for soccer. Yet, they left lanes 5 & 6. They also left the massive pile of track & sub-track material nearby and created a horrid eye-sore. They never had it hauled away.

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POTY

A two lane track sounds cool to me...if it was in my backyard!

Urban planners suck at making infrastructure for runners. Their idea of a good time is a concrete path with unnecessary winding back and forth with lots of intersections. Making it impossible to go fast, impossible to consistently train in the location, and almost guarantees you will have oblivious walkers in your way.

They did the same thing here. Someone told them they needed a track and a pitch, so they put in a track and a pitch. Not for sport, but for recreation. Because why would a high school have any need for standard facilities...

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Some funny posts in this thread, kinda forgot about it.

Anyway, the latest on this track and stadium debacle. The Friends of Vic High wrote an open letter to the local paper of record Times Colonist and had it published Saturday. Full-pager.

Today they had an article about it and the ongoing saga.

Coincidently there is a by-election for a Council seat and that spot looks like it is going to be won by a person who supports the Friends of Vic High and will be the fly in the ointment of a roque portion of the Council.

A superbowl champion, international rugby captain, two-time professional world kickboxing champion and about 20 Olympic or near Olympic level athletes have endorsed this Open Letter to the city, council, and minister of education.....

https://athleticsillustrated.com/open-letter-to-city-of-victoria-mayor-lisa-helps-city-council-school-district-61-trustees-and-honourable-jennifer-whiteside/