Deadly stretch of Calgary pathway being replaced with switchbacks
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The city of Calgary is reconstructing a section of pathway that resulted in fatal injuries to a local teen.
The city of Calgary is reconstructing a section of pathway in northwest Calgary which resulted in fatal injuries to a teen two years ago
Jhamir Catajan was a Grade 8 student at St. Joseph School who is remembered as a gentle soul who always put others before himself.
On June 15, 2020, Jhamir was skateboarding down a hill in Confederation Park when witnesses said he tried to avoid a child on the path and crashed into a bridge. The 14 year old died two days later.
“That was really hard for all of our families because it’s a tight-knit community. So when another accident happened almost a year later and it was in our same school community, we said OK what can we do?” said Mount Pleasant resident Amanda Halek.
Halek’s son went to school with both Jhamir and with another boy who was seriously injured at the same location a year after Jhamir’s death. A group of parents took action, setting up a memorial in the park to raise awareness, approaching strangers in the park and writing emails to the city.
“It was totally grassroots. We just got together in the park after these accidents happened, this group of moms and we are crying and standing at this bridge going ‘What can we do?'” Halek said.
The city is now realigning the pathway along 10th St in Mount Pleasant. It used to be a straight line down to a four-way intersection. The new pathway will have two switchbacks to slow riders down.
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