City Making Steady Progress on Road Repairs
Saturday, June 8, 2013 @ 4:11 AM
Prince George, B.C. – Two weeks into the 2013 Road Rehabilitation program and City of Prince George crews are making steady progress on the 16 projects targeted for work this year.Supervisor of Street Operations Mick Jones says three of the five projects slated for week in the week of May 27th have been completed. Those were Lyon Street between 15th and 18th Avenues, Johnson Street between 10th and 15th and Winnipeg Street between Carney and 13th (Winnipeg Street asphalt lift in photo at right, photo 250News). Jones says weather permitting, 20th Avenue between Massey and Highway 16 should be completed on Monday, while Nicholson Street between 22nd Avenue and Opie Crescent should be wrapped up by the end of next week.
Jones says the weather has had some effect on the project schedule. “It does cause some minor delays. Like we’re not paving today (Friday) because of the water this morning. The weather is a factor.” However he says steady progress is being made on the 5.18 million dollars worth of road rehabilitation the City is undertaking this year. “Weather dependant we’re making progress for sure.”
The next location on the list is Foothills Boulevard between West Austin Road and Chief Lake Road. Jones says “we’re hoping to start that one near the landfill on Monday and hope to have that completed next week as well.”
Comments
Better go fill those cracks in the new pavement on Ospika too. A little preventive maintenance goes a long way.
Seems Winnipeg street was paved one day and dug up the next. Those pesky old water mains.
Too bad Boundary Road in front of Kal Tire is not on the list. We would be better off if they just ripped up the pavement and left it gravel.
Horrible horrible road.
I agree tractor. The very least they culd do is fill the potholes and make Boundry a little better.
Seems they really do not have a comprehensive plan. Waiting for the Feds to give them some money I guess.
We have been paying taxes for years to have our roads fixed, and when they do spend some money, it seems like it is big news>
Fact of the matter is, it is what we pay for, and we should have been getting a hell of a lot more paving than we have been getting.
The City of Prince George is the King City of money mismanagement.
I don’t mind hearing some good news for a change – roads are being fixed – but I am still concerned about the statement made by a city official that we are not spending enough and that we are in fact getting more behind with every year that goes by!
Croft Road has apparently been abandoned so it is no use to mention its obvious safety and mechanical deficiencies any more.
I see the city is trying a new method of pot hole repair, they now install a “bumpy road” sign and sometimes even put an orange cone in some of them. It would be nice to see some of them actually get repaired but I guess the city ‘aint got time fo dat.
I see the city is trying a new method of pot hole repair, they now install a “bumpy road” sign and sometimes even put an orange cone in some of them. It would be nice to see some of them actually get repaired but I guess the city ‘aint got time fo dat.
To maintain the roads at their current lvl an annual budget of $7.3 million is needed to be proactive and stay ahead with the repairs an annual budget of $8.5 million is required the current budget is $5.8 million for road rehabilitation.
Of course this is based on current population of 135,000 in and around PG and traffic load. Both of these stats are expected to rise considerably in the next 15 yrs which of course means a larger budget will be needed for everything.
Nicholson St between Massey and 22nd Ave. just this week they dug a piece of road to make some repairs to a water line. Yesterday they spent three hours paving the area they dug up? Couple of weeks down the road they will grind it off to pave the entire road. Now that’s planning.
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