“The initial budget for the 6.8 km of road was $28 million dollars.”

…for a road that essentially does the same thing as the Old Cariboo Highway. But we spent $36 Million for a runway we don’t use, so what the heck.

“It’s under the snow. See that kinda bump that goes along up that way? And the other bump in the snow that is evenly apart all the way up to there? That’s our new road. Cool, eh? Those are the two curbs. Just imagine. Joe? Measure that snow right there in the middle of the two curbs and see if it has more than twelve centimetres. What? You left your metric tape measure home? Just give Chief Green a call. It should be higher than that by the time she sends out a plow. By the way, nice road, eh?”

It will be interesting to see how much traffic actually uses this road.

Traffic from 16 East going to the Hart,the Pulp Mills,Husky Refinery, FMC Corp, or Chemtrade, would continue to use 1st Avenue. Traffic from 16 East going South on 97 would continue to use the Old Cariboo Highway.

One would assume that traffic from 16 East to 16 West would use Boundry Road to 97 South to 16 West, however it is probably more efficient to use 1st Avenue to Victoria and then out on 16.

In any event there is very little traffic coming in on Highway 16, East, nor is there much traffic coming from 16 West going to 16 East.

Boundry Road will be a quiet place for Moose, Deer, and other animals to wander for quite some time to come.

Perhaps once all the new industry locates at the Global Industrial Park, things will change.

I,ve been waiting patiently to go for a spin down that new road complete with extra wide sidewalks for all the foot traffic .
Looks like the loader and grader operators will get to maul over the new road before we get a chance to cruise the miricle 6.8 klicks

“Traffic from 16 East going South on 97 would continue to use the Old Cariboo Highway.”
I wouldnt assume that to be 100% just yet. With the school zone on old Cariboo and the corner entry at the old Art Knapps I would rather use the new road. Of course, that is without seeing it yet lol. Who knows.
Also, this should be made into the dangerous goods route for Hwy 16 west traffic to get it out of the downtown core. Maybe thats in the works already?

It is supposed to be the dangerous good route.

If there is traffic which goes to the west on 16 and is coming from the east on 16, I would expect much of it to miss the 16/97 intersection at the casino and opt to get off at the Ferry ramp, head west on Ferry and then turn left onto HWY16 east, unless they sign it so that it cannot be used by trucks.

As has been mentioned many times in the past.

All Government Highways are Dangerous Goods Routes. The City can set up their own routes, however trucks can legally use any Government Highway.

So this means they can use.

A. Victoria (which is in fact Highway 16)
B. The Bypass (which is Highway 97)
C. Queensway through South Ft George to Ferry to 16, unless it is no longer part of the Highway Route.
D. Old Cariboo Highway,

Last but not least the so called Dangerous Good Route is a red herring.

Most Dangerous Goods such as Caustic Soda, Sodium Chlorate, Sulphuric Acid, Sulphur Dioxide, move by rail. Hydrogen Peroxide moves via truck from the Pulp Mill Road, however this product goes to Pulp Mills Ie; Hinton Ab., Quesnel, BC, Kamloops, BC, and they would probably use the regular highways.

If the road is being serviced by Yellowhead Road and Bridge, then it is a BC Government highway, and is automatically ok for Dangerous Goods.

Gasoline and Diesel trucks are also considered dangerous, however they have to travel all over the City to service the gas stations, etc; so they could not possible follow a Dangerous Goods Route, unless they are running one into Costco these days, or the service station at 5th and Carney.

You get my drift.??