Hello…..Mother Nature…..?

This is Prince George calling. We sure could use some drier weather so they can pave some roads in this town.

Thanks….

By the quality of some of the paving done last year it looks like rain does not even slow them down. I would like to know if the city has EVER put in a claim for early failure.

Woo freakin hoooo. 15th is a disaster. Not sure how anyone on a motorcycle navigates that stretch of road. I just keep driving up and down Tabor between 5th and 15th for the pure joy of a smooth ride

If a were the mayor I would create a city department which is 100% responsible and totally dedicated to roads 12 months of the year. This would also include off-ramps and access roads to shopping centers. It would include ALL roads within city limits, regardless of how much or how little they are used, repair priorities simply and exclusively based on condition.

This department would also be required to be in constant communication with the provincial department of highways in respect to missing or left and right turn lanes which are too short to facilitate proper and safe traffic flow. Also it would have to communicate with the above in respect to poorly timed traffic lights at all intersections which have been that way for far too many decades.

Just an idea of course. It may not be practicable in today’s stressed society which has a very short attention span.

What did you write, Prince George?

It is nice that, as expected, the streets that were scheduled to be repaved are being repaved.

What I am finding is that there are far too many of the streets that will not be repaved but will, I assume, be patched, have far too many major potholes in them still at this time of the year. Many of them are in locations that cannot be avoided once one has made the committment to drive to a destination by a particular (typically shortest) route.

Gus:”What did you write, Prince George?”

Read it again, Gus! Real life evidence suggests to me that to actually have the kind of department I wrote about would not only be very desirable but actually an urgent necessity.

Drive around with open eyes and then get back to me!

Gus is still overhung from all the food he had FtGrorge Park on the recent big event. He’s a bit woosy.
Cheers

I would like to know if the city has EVER put in a claim for early failure.
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After many years of poor paving work the city did ask that question and the responce was a one year worrenty.With two inches of new asphalt how could the worrenty be much longer.
Cheers

Yuup! That’s it!

Funny how some of us allow ourselves to get gradually ‘conditioned’ to accept unacceptable conditions and expect just a small return for all the taxes we pay!

Cheers!