someone forgot to mention penn road. i think its the worse road of them all!

Railway Road is a disaster, especially near Richmond Steel. You pretty well need a dune buggy to get across that area!

I agree Wileycoyote that Penn is very bad. Same with Pacific. Our business pays substantial taxes and the roads are crap out there. Dangerous with all the big trucks swerving to miss potholes.

So, it seems funny to me that they are changing their minds and several of the roads voted as ‘Bcaa top 10 worst roads’ -of which we have 5 listed- seem to have been pushed up the list for rehab. “curioser & curiouser”!
Poor beggars that have to use some of the others downgraded on the priority list.

I notice the road the mayor says she drives everyday to work has been added. Very obvious favoritism.

Councilor Skakun just committed political suicide. I am sorry to say my wife and I voted for him. That won’t happen next time around.

I welcome a gas tax over increased property taxes. User pay system: larger, heavier vehicles cause more damage. Of course, if we can get the money from resource extraction companies, then I’m all for that.

‘Council is looking at alternate ways to come up with the money necessary to repair the roads in the City.’

You idiots.

Tax the local residential, commercial and industrial property owners fairly and equitably over a period of a number of years.

Hold those collections in a dedicated road renewal sinking fund.

Use those funds intelligently to preserve the road network BEFORE everything falls to complete sh*t.

It’s not complicated, and it certainly has nothing to do with ‘we live in a northern community with freeze-thaw cycles, boo-hoo-hoo’.

Green, Koehler, Hall – I’m talking to you. Get it fixed.

It is very sad when staff and council have to make changes in paving priorities based on popular opinion.

On the one hand it can be seen that it is good that they are listening to the “squeeky wheels” (pun intended)

But, on the other hand, as they say, staff should know what roads have the highest traffic counts and are the worst roads so that they can make valid decisions on what the priorities should be.

The Mayor once again mentioned that senior governments provide funds but they are tyopcially tied to limited uses. She said this during discussions on funding options for road maintenance.

The tripartite agreement with the feds, the province and UBCM has included allowing money to be applied to road rehabilitation to improve sustainability.

http://www.ubcm.ca/EN/main/funding/gas-tax-fund/about.html

Read Schedule A in the original agreement as well as in the 2010 amendment which reduces the number of applications and maintains the “rehabilitation of roads, bridges and tunnels that enhance sustainability outcomes”

We can even use it for sidewalks.

Maybe those Councillors who have made the effort to post on here recently could identify what errors I am making in reading the agreement and amendments.

I think we could get a few people on here to write a PG version of this political science text
http://www.nittwitthill.com

Might just as well close Foothills from Austin Rd to Chief Lake Rd

Can they not use the $400 thousand they have saved on the Kin 1 project to pump into repaving an extra road?

And please, stop spending money on stupid things like the DBIA flowers….

I think people need to take a closer look at just what City Hall is doing with our tax dollars. It is clear to me that the priorities of Council are not that of the citizenry of PG. Democracy is ony ours if we enforce it. Speak up and let our municipla leaders know when you disagree with their derired direction

LOL Ferry to Range road is the smoothest part of what is left of Ospika. Ospika to Tyner should have priority.

Property taxes were already raised to fix the roads. Where did that money go? Is Brian getting a Leaf or something?

“I welcome a gas tax over increased property taxes. User pay system: larger, heavier vehicles cause more damage.”

Those heavier vehicles don’t have to fill up here swordfern. They could easily arrange their fuel stops in places other than P.G.

Johnson street is to be neglected AGAIN?? What’s this now, fifteen years? What about the beautiful welcome to PG when you turn off Hwy 97 to go to Pine centre? I think there should be a “welcome to PG” sign right before that exit. Where it joins Massey there should be a sign that reads, “think that was bad? just wait til you see the rest of the roads!”

I think Skakun must be huffing foul condensate fumes at work to suggest another gas tax. Maybe they should just work at getting their share of the tax bounty that we already pay on gas tax to the province. What a joke of a suggestion.