Region to remove fee for indoor track at Queens Place in new year

The Region of Queens will remove the fee from the indoor track at Queens Place Emera Centre from January to April. (Queens Place Emera Centre)

It might be a little easier to keep those New Year’s resolutions in 2025.

People won’t have to pay to use the indoor track at Queens Place Emera Centre in Liverpool in the new year.

Region of Queens councillors voted this week to remove the $2 per use fee from January to April 2025 on the Eleanor Seeley multipurpose indoor track.

The 220-metre track is open year-round to runners and walkers on the upper level of the arena at Queens Place.

Councillors voted to remove the fee, ask staff to promote that it’s free and to collect data from historic use as well as use during the pilot project.

They also want staff to get user feedback and report on the operational and financial effects of the four-month pilot.

Queens Place has offered the track free of charge before, usually in the summer months.

Mayor Scott Christian said the idea came up during a recent event that he and District 7 Coun. Wanda Carver attended with the Queens Community Health Board. 

The health board was looking for ways to remove barriers to healthy active lifestyles.

“It’s removing the barriers, understanding the way that it impacts access and use of that service of that facility to our community members throughout the winter months here,” Christian said. “Doing a little bit of a pilot project and studying it so we can make a decision on how we want to handle the walking track moving forward.”

In the last fiscal year, the region collected $10,000 in user fees from the indoor track.

Email: rickconradqccr@gmail.com

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