excellent news!!! This is the year of paving. Finally, potholes will become less common than caterpillars….

excellent news!!! This is the year of paving. Finally, potholes will become less common than caterpillars….

Good, 16W is little more than a goat trail right now.

Nice to see all the work being done this year. Insofar as the City goes, no doubt this being an election year has something to do with the big expenditures.

There is another factor that is not mentioned often, and that is that approx. $4/5 Million of the $9 Million being spent by the City comes from the Federal Governments Gas Tax Fund. So whether you like them or not you can thank the Federal Government for half of your road rehabilitation this year.

Personally I think that the Provincial Government spending $3.5 Million on roads in this area, is nowhere near the amount that needs to be spent. We need an announcement by the Province that they will do a major upgrade to Highway 16 West, Prince George to Prince Rupert/Kitimat. This is what is required, and a measly $3.5 million is an insult to the people of North Western BC.

It’s about bloody time. Hwy 16 in both directions from Domano to Gauthier Road is a disgrace to all professional hwy maintenance personnel around the world. You backyard hwy maintenance people should be ashamed!

Might as well use some of the money that is not being spent on the broken fast tracking promise of the Cariboo Connector (anybody remember that 50 year project?) and do a little upgrade to the worst of PG to PR!

We sure get only the crumbs that fall off the highway budget banquet table!

Vancouver needs a new 2.5 billion or so Pattullo Bridge and there a lot of traffic jams so more highway lanes and overpasses are needed.

To Victoria the North is just an afterthought.

Time to ask John Horgan what he would do to fix this problem. If he says he would make it better, then vote for his party next time. Another problem to delete from yer whining list.

Of all the highway upgrades in BC the PG to Vanderhoof section of highway 16 needs to be four laned. If this was anywhere else in North America the highway would have been four laned 30-years ago. Being that it is mostly flat farmer fields the cost should not be all that bad and is all the more reason why it should get priority for the value it brings.

I agree with Eagleone. The South gets the elevator, and the North gets the shaft.

Four lanes from beaverly to start, top of mud river, then traffic wont be at 70 km bottle neck from there into town, goat trail ,,,we deserve better,,, like they have in lotus land.

PG to Vanderhoof is a major commuter route and really needs an upgrade. Travelled this section (with my many trips between PG and Telkwa a couple years ago) and that was definetely the busiest section of the trip.

The two laning of the Dawson Creek to Alberta border stretch of Hwy 2 is coming along really quickly. Announced one day then work started almost immediately.

Blair Lekstrom must of had magical powers to get that one done.

Any chance we can get a couple of pot holes filled along the bypass in PG Christy?

Morris and Bond are doing a bang up job here wouldn’t you say?

Pffft!

Yes, and the province could put in a Isle Pierre crossing of the Nechako that ties in with Chief Lake Road and save 40 minutes off the trip north.

A bi-pass alternate route that in times of the highway closures that can be used as an effective detour, or dangerous goods route. Make use of the overpass at Bednesti and a few km of road on the other side of the river. Maybe make Isle Pierre Saw mill more of a viable operation over the long term.

Would this help in getting response time down on any potential pipeline spills if that ever goes ahead… things like the Tear Drop Forest Service Area or upper Stuart River? For sure it would cut down huge on response times North and West.

And no more chip trucks using Peden Hill and going right through town.

Ideally if we got a 4-lane from PG to Vanderhoof it would also include a new Isle Pierre Crossing from Bednesti to Chief Lake Road.