Freezing Rain Leads To Travel Advisory
Prince George, BC – First snow, now freezing rain…
Environment Canada has issued a freezing rain warning for both the North and South Cariboo. An Arctic front is lying east-west across the Central Interior and has generated an extensive area of freezing rain over the 100 Mile and Cariboo Regions.
The rain has prompted the Ministry of Transportation to issue a travel advisory for Highway 97 north of Williams Lake to Stoner, just south of Prince George. While no details are yet available, there has been a vehicle incident approximately 13-kilometres north of Quesnel that has reduced the route to single-lane alternating traffic.
And, although no travel advisory is in place, freezing rain has also fallen in and around Prince George all evening, creating extremely slick conditions.
For further updates, motorists can check www.drivebc.ca The freezing rain is expected to end overnight.
Comments
Has anyone seen a sand truck?
I see as usual highway 16 north has compact snow and ice all the way to Bednesti and is mostly bare from there to Vanderhoof, looks like another winter of YRB .PG getting away with doing a piss poor job!!
trucks sliding off the road,cars in the ditch, highways closed, come on you guys , drop your blade and use some sand , thats what are tax dollars pay you for !!!!!!!!
make that highway 16 west!!
Maybe ICBC could fund the extra winter road maintenance costs for the PG to Bednesti section. It may well be cheaper than the vehicle damage and personal injury costs incurred each winter.
At least now drivers not used to the lack of winter road maintenance on this section have a new fancy electronic sign advising them the highway is in crappy condition.
Hooterville , thats funny that was my exact comment when they were putting that sign up.CAUTION BAD ROADS AND BAD MAINTENCE.lol
Maybe, they should be getting performance incentives.
That’s when I like the old government method. The workers did their job.we got the roads plowed and sanded.
It still all boils down ultimately to driver responsibility. If road conditions are bad, SLOW DOWN AND DRIVE ACCORDINGLY. Whether or not maintenance has been done up to someone’s standards, you need to take these things into consideration and adjust.
He spoke – there are probably a lot of different factors today than there were some 25 years ago when the government managed maintenance. The weather conditions have certainly changed; big changes in vehicles; changes in peoples’ expectations/demands. And we all tend to remember things from the past in a more favourable light, if it agrees with our current mindset. Can’t honestly say that it was important enough to me to remember how good or bad it actually was 25 years ago. It was what it was, and you dealt with it.
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