A $260,000 Bathroom

Holy crap, as the saying goes.

Beachradio Vernon states Regional District of North Okanagan directors have agreed to spend...are you sitting down?...$260,000 on a washroom for the new Okanagan Rail Trail.

There's more:
Also there's $170,000 in fencing and a lock-block wall on Westkal Road in Coldstream.

The other big ticket item is wayfinding signage in five areas, costing $140,000.

Wait a minute, that's $28,000 each for 5 signs on a lineal path, with presumably no exits other than at its municipal toilet(s) and the opposite end of the path?

How tough could it be to produce a few signs on which arrows and a few words are displayed?

Twenty-eight THOUSAND dollars a sign?


There’s also plans for $20,000 in garbage receptacles, and $10,000 for trail head development design.

"Maybe the pricey bathroom is fully staffed," Kia would've said.

Must be that the indigenous Ogopogo is on the committee.

Wonder how many locals are planning to open a sign shop...