High River residents in the northwest have long clamoured for a pedestrian bridge over the Highwood River.

Mayor Craig Snodgrass says the Town's asking all residents to weigh in on the bridge and where it should go.

One idea is west of the Highwood golf course off Riverside Drive, through the Mercer property and up on the berm.

"Ideally it would go west of the golf course property, kind of start off of Riverside Drive and across the river then find its way somehow through the Mercer property and then back up onto the berm but that location comes with enormous challenges with floodway development and there's some dangers in trying to make it accessible for everybody, when you build a bridge like that you do want to make it accessible to as many people as possible," he explained.

The other plan has it going west of the Centre Street road bridge so pedestrians wouldn't have to cross Centre Street at the lights north of the bridge they could stay on the Happy Trails and go through the property that was formerly home to the Town Shops.

That would take users directly to downtown.

Mayor Snodgrass says the new bridge would need to be able to be used by people on foot, in mobile scooters or wheelchairs which the Centre Street bridge isn't able to handle now.

You can take the Town survey here.