Retired doctor Ross Thomas was one of a small group of citizens who had been working on and off for the past 15 years on a project to build a pedestrian bridge across the Trans Canada highway in Sackville. The group hoped to reconnect the Trans Canada trail where it is bisected by the highway, and allow for improved active transportation connections between central Sackville and the high school, Middle Sackville neighbourhoods, and Silver Lake.
But Thomas and the rest of his committee have resigned in the wake of a loss of $1 million in private funding that had been promised to the project just over 2 years ago. “The donor decided that this was never going to happen, and they wanted to try and find some other place to send their money,” says Thomas. “So they withdrew their offer.”
