Traffic Moving on Highway 16 East
Friday, June 7, 2013 @ 7:43 PM
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(Traffic begins moving through Highway 16 east slide area Friday evening. Submitted photo)
Valemount, B.C. – Traffic is now moving through the site of a mudslide which has blocked Highway 16 east, near Tete Jaune Cache, since early this afternoon.
A Prince George resident who was returning to the city for the weekend and has been idled by the slide sent the picture above to 250 News this evening. He says Highway 16 is now open to single-lane, alternating traffic as the task of removing the debris from the roadway continues.
The slide blocked the highway 8 kilometres west of the junction with Highway 5 earlier today. Police said it measured 50 feet wide and a foot deep. No vehicles were caught in the slide. The Transportation Ministry says Highway 16 should be fully re-opened sometime between 8 and 11 tonight.
Comments
it’s a little late now for this comment, but there is a back route way to travel, which was from Tete Jeune to Dunster and vs versa via the Old Tete Jeune road system on the south side of the Fraser. Not great for trailers probably, but we bypassed the problem and added less then an hour to our travel, vs going to Little Fort and over to 100 mIle as was suggested at the slide site. But we didn’t have a 6 – 8 hr wait on the highway.
I have travelled that route once, many moons ago.
It was also mentioned on this site a few years ago during a similar circumstance. I find it very strange that the local highways people, or whoever takes charge of such a situation do not know about it or, if they do, do not notify people in the line.
One would think that the crews have access with today’s technolgy to request the info from a dispatcher or a gps unit in their vehicle to show an alternate route.
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