Road Upgrades Improving Safety
Prince George, B.C.- ICBC spent $149,000 on road upgrades in Prince George last year.
All proposed road improvement projects are assessed based on their ability to make roads safer. An evaluation found that following a project’s completion, there is on average, a 20 per cent reduction in severe crashes and a 12 per cent reduction in property damage crashes.
“Everyone benefits from road improvements – from drivers to pedestrians – because safer roads mean fewer crashes, which also translates into lower claim costs,” said John Dickinson, ICBC’s Director of Road Safety. “We’ll continue to invest in road safety initiatives that help us keep rates as low as possible.”
The Prince George projects were:
Chief Lake Road and Ness Lake Road
- Upgraded intersection lighting
- Partner: Ministry of Transportation and Infrastructure
- ICBC contribution: $12,400
Highway 16 at Upper Fraser Road
- Intersection improvements and construction of 2 km eastbound climbing lane from the intersection
- Partner: Ministry of Transportation and Infrastructure
- ICBC contribution: $22,200
Highway 97 to Sintich
- Four-laning 3.5 km of highway with improvements to several intersections including Holmes and Bowron Roads. Improvements include shoulder widening, upgraded signing, pavement marking, lighting and access control.
- Partner: Ministry of Transportation and Infrastructure
- ICBC contribution: $49,000
Highway 16 and Highway 97
- Improve delineation, pavement marking using durable inlaid markings
- Partner: Ministry of Transportation and Infrastructure
- ICBC contribution: $33,300
4th and 5th Avenues
- Construction of new sidewalks around the block at the new RCMP building new LED street lighting and installation of curb extensions
- Partner: City of Prince George
- ICBC contribution: $15,000
Lansdowne Road and Ferry Avenue
- Upgrading of existing pedestrian signal to a full two-phase traffic signal
- Partner: City of Prince George
- ICBC contribution: $17,200
The ICBC road improvement plan also included contributions to road improvements in the following northern areas of B.C.
- Dawson Creek- Ft.St. John- $107,000
- Prince Rupert and Terrace area – $83,000
- Smithers and Houston – $23,000
- Vanderhoof, Ft. St. James and area – $163,000
- Williams Lake, 100 Mile House, and Quesnel – $221,000
Comments
Said on CBC.ca that Saskatoon was gonna spend $50 million bucks on their roads and streets. AND pave back alleys too. I drove through Saskatoon last July. Their streets are worse than ours. Taxpayers there don’t mind a tax increase for that. No mention of a PAC tho.
Why would they mention a PAC when Saskatoon already have a great facility.
http://www.tcuplace.com/
“Lansdowne Road and Ferry Avenue
â¢Upgrading of existing pedestrian signal to a full two-phase traffic signal
â¢Partner: City of Prince George
â¢ICBC contribution: $17,200″
yea that helped alot.Now the traffic is backed up to the cloverleaf for hwy 97.
want to fix the traffic on Ferry ?
Stop letting the Medium Trucks use it for a short cut , considering it is a major residential area with a School Zone!
Saywho: Ferry avenue is an extension of Hwy 16! There is no school zone in that area. There is a playground zone at Van Bien school on Upland street. I would rather have seen them put a sensor in the pavement for traffic coming off Lansdowne. The timed light there is what makes the traffic back up. Often there is no traffic that requires the light on Ferry to turn red.
The city has gone to a lot of cameras instead of sensors but they don’t maintain them, just letting them go into the automatic cycle mode causing a lot of unnecessary stopping of traffic.
Yes I think this city has a real small town mentality when it comes to smooth efficient traffic control. You have to go to the top of management to determine why that is and correct it there.
Seems there is no political will to do that.
you know what else would improve safety! enforcement of the rules of the road.
I know its a crazy idea. I think the last time I saw police doing a road side speed check was last summer. but then they don’t know how to read a speed sign either.
You should travel a bit more, Harbinger, before you put your foot in your mouth. ;-)
45 years in operation …. we had a similar dream with Discovery Place …. but it got voted down some 20 years after Saskatoon already had theirs.
So we sit here wondering why the City is trying to find another way to get there without putting it to a vote again just to get the same result.
A bunch of farmers, those Sakatoonians …. that is the problem … we do not have enough farmers here.
“this city has a real small town mentality”
I’ve been saying that very phrase about Prince George for 8 or 9 years now, mostly relating to things like traffic lights on main highway routes within city limits.
Truckers must hate having to go through P.G. all that stopping and starting of heavily loaded big rigs, it’s hard on the pavement, and causes more air pollution.
metalman.
Quesnel’s worse.
Travel? With my half a thousand dollar bi- annual tax bill due at the end of the month? And a biggy in July? Might be able to holiday in Hixon for the day and buy a burger.
How long has the red light camera been gone from the intersection of Highway 97 and Austin Road (Hart)?
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