{"id":4620,"date":"2021-10-21T06:26:15","date_gmt":"2021-10-21T09:26:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.qccrfm.com\/news\/?p=4620"},"modified":"2021-10-21T06:26:15","modified_gmt":"2021-10-21T09:26:15","slug":"vandals-strike-trestle-trail-bridge","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.qccrfm.com\/news\/2021\/10\/21\/vandals-strike-trestle-trail-bridge\/","title":{"rendered":"Vandals strike Trestle Trail Bridge"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_4622\" style=\"width: 235px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-4622\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-4622\" src=\"https:\/\/www.qccrfm.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/10\/Rails-to-trails-bridge-damage-Oct-18-21-cr-Kathy-Mack-225x300.jpg\" alt=\"A broken wooden rail hangs off a bridge over a river\" width=\"225\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.qccrfm.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/10\/Rails-to-trails-bridge-damage-Oct-18-21-cr-Kathy-Mack-225x300.jpg 225w, https:\/\/www.qccrfm.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/10\/Rails-to-trails-bridge-damage-Oct-18-21-cr-Kathy-Mack.jpg 720w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 225px) 100vw, 225px\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-4622\" class=\"wp-caption-text\"><span style=\"font-size: 10pt\">Damage from vandals on the Trestle Trail Bridge. Photo Kathy Mack<\/span><\/p><\/div>\n<p>Vandals damaged part of the newly completed Trestle Trail bridge in Liverpool over the weekend.<\/p>\n<p>Queens Rails to Trails Association helps maintain the bridge and president Brian Hatt says a safety rail was kicked out from a viewing platform sometime Sunday evening.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt\u2019s the first incident we\u2019ve experienced since we did the renovation or, restoration,\u201d said Hatt.<\/p>\n<p>Closed off and on over the past two years to allow for a complete rebuild of parts of the structure, the bridge just had interpretive panels installed in August.<\/p>\n<p>The rebuild was made possible by the efforts of the Queens Rails to Trails Association, private donors as well as both the Region of Queens and provincial government.<\/p>\n<p>The trail is well used by locals and tourists alike and Hatt is disappointed to see someone deliberately damage part of the bridge.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt was engineered to be safe but I don\u2019t know there\u2019s anything you can build that will protect against vandalism,\u201d said Hatt.<\/p>\n<p>The damage was brought to the attention of Queens Rails to Trails Association and a member was out Monday making repairs.<\/p>\n<p>Hatt says they will try to reinforce the \u00a0area so it can\u2019t be broken so easily in the future.<\/p>\n<p>He asks if anyone sees the bridge being damaged to call RCMP or contact him directly.<\/p>\n<p><strong>E-mail:\u00a0<a href=\"mailto:edhalversonnews@gmail.com\">edhalversonnews@gmail.com<\/a><\/strong><br \/>\n<strong>Twitter: @edwardhalverson<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><em>To listen to the broadcast of this story, press play below.<\/em><\/p>\n<audio class=\"wp-audio-shortcode\" id=\"audio-4620-1\" preload=\"none\" style=\"width: 100%;\" controls=\"controls\"><source type=\"audio\/mpeg\" src=\"https:\/\/www.qccrfm.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/10\/Bridge-Damage-Oct-19-21_mixdown.mp3?_=1\" \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.qccrfm.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/10\/Bridge-Damage-Oct-19-21_mixdown.mp3\">https:\/\/www.qccrfm.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/10\/Bridge-Damage-Oct-19-21_mixdown.mp3<\/a><\/audio>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Vandals damaged part of the newly completed Trestle Trail bridge in Liverpool over the weekend. Queens Rails to Trails Association helps maintain the bridge and president Brian Hatt says a safety rail was kicked out from a viewing platform sometime Sunday evening. \u201cIt\u2019s the first incident we\u2019ve experienced since we did the renovation or, restoration,\u201d [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13,5],"tags":[435,39,437,434,433,436],"class_list":["post-4620","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-community-news","category-news-posts","tag-brian-hatt","tag-liverpool","tag-queens-rails-to-trails-association","tag-rails-to-trails","tag-trestle-trail-bridge","tag-vandals"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.qccrfm.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4620","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.qccrfm.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.qccrfm.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.qccrfm.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.qccrfm.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4620"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.qccrfm.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4620\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4623,"href":"https:\/\/www.qccrfm.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4620\/revisions\/4623"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.qccrfm.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4620"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.qccrfm.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4620"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.qccrfm.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4620"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}