There鈥檚 not enough evidence yet to warrant installing a crosswalk at Back Road and Tunner Drive.

But Courtenay staff will continue to keep an eye on the issue.

The city uses Transportation of Canada criteria to assess crosswalk requests including traffic and pedestrian volumes, road width, and the distance to the next available marked crossing.

The city鈥檚 engineering services department counted vehicle and pedestrian traffic at the location proposed for a crosswalk by a resident.

None of the counts met TAC criteria for a marked crosswalk.

Staff also added a review of incidents at Back and Tunner, going back to 2000, and found only five. None of them involved pedestrians trying to cross Back Road.

City staff plan to recount vehicles and pedestrians there this spring to reassess the resident鈥檚 request.

鈥淚t remains on our radar,鈥� said CAO David Allen. 鈥淏ased on Transportation Association of Canada criteria 鈥� there鈥檚 really not strong evidence for need of another crossing. But council always has the option of increasing level of service. Staff are just saying the evidence isn鈥檛 strong.鈥�

Counc. Bob Wells said 鈥渋t鈥檚 hard not to feel that it鈥檚 an accident waiting to happen鈥� at the intersection.

And Counc. David Frisch wondered if the city was 鈥渄iscouraging walking.鈥� He hopes city staff will look at encouraging more pedestrians in the upcoming traffic plan.