The Mayor for Steinbach says their engineers are working on a plan for a pathway to connect Clearspring Greens to the rest of the city.

Earl Funk made the comment Tuesday evening after a large delegation appeared before council, making yet another attempt to convince council of their plight.

Clearspring Greens, located just east of the golf course, was developed about 12 years ago. Today it has approximately 140 homes. But, Morley Fast, who led the charge Tuesday, told council they are landlocked and disconnected from the rest of the city.

(Residents of Clearspring Greens say it is treacherous walking or cycling along the busy surrounding roads.)Fast, and dozens of his neighbours stood before council, suggesting several council candidates made an election promise last year that pathways would be coming. Fast asked why council is stalling.

Funk assured the crowd that council is not stalling.

"Our engineers are working, our staff are working and we will come to some sort of answer in the short while," he says. "We've taken all the information they gave us, it's under advisement."

A rationale for the lack of sidewalks was presented by council Tuesday evening. Councillor Susan Penner says Clearspring Greens was developed as low service. As a result, lot rates were reduced, but sidewalks were not part of the plan.

"We obviously see that there is an issue now," she says.

"So the development fees were not taken for transportation, which would include sidewalks," adds Funk. "So there is no money in the development fees to do sidewalks and that's why we haven't done this at this point."

Funk says you can add to that their budget constraints for 2019, as the result of extra debt taken on from construction of the water treatment plant, and they really do not have extra money lying around to pay for this right now.

Residents on Tuesday questioned whether it will take a death along Old Tom Road to finally get shovel in the ground, suggesting that traffic lights along Highway 52 at Industrial Road appeared fast tracked after a fatal crash.

Funk says his heart goes out to the residents of Clearspring Greens over this safety issue and that the city will be working on this as hard as it can.

"We want all our areas to be safe and I feel for the folks that live there," says Funk. "We do want to connect them to our amenities so that they can be there."

Residents were assured Tuesday that the speed limit along Old Tom Road should be dropping from 70 kilometres per hour, down to 60 kilometres per hour sometime this fall.