Public Budget Consultations Coming to PG, FSJ
Prince George, B.C. – If you’d like a say in next year’s provincial budget then you may want to attend a public consultation tomorrow at the Ramada in PG.
From 4 until 8 pm participants can make a presentation to the all-party Select Standing Committee on Finance and Government Services.
Chair Dan Ashton says all 15 presentation slots are full but notes there will also be time to speak into the open mic once those are complete.
“We want to hear from the citizens of BC what they want their government to do in the upcoming fiscal year.”
He says those unable to attend can still participate by completing an online survey or by making a written submission.
Ashton says you can do that by going to www.leg.bc.ca/cmt/finance and says all of the input will form a report with recommendations which will be presented in the provincial legislature in November.
He says it will then be forwarded to the Ministry of Finance.
A budget consultation will also take place in Fort St. John tomorrow from 8:30 until noon at the Quality Inn Northern Grand.
Comments
I will be unable to attend as I will be out of town, but I sure hope someone can attend and speak up about the condition of our highways. Up North especially, how can we say our future is with the LNG industry when the only highway that connects to the LNG heartland is so narrow that two trucks can barely pass, much less a wide load along much of highway 97 north of the Pine river where the road isn’t even wide enough to have painted white lines and has a drop off rather than a shoulder… in the winter months its just not safe for wide loads.
Does the BC government have plans for BC businesses getting contracts when LNG ramps up, or will all the work be going to Alberta?
And when are we going to get some passing lanes at places like the Salmon Forest service road Highway 97 south out North of town… or Highway 16 heading East from Mud River to Blackwater… infrastructure that is far behind the times and upgrades that are much over due.
Eagleone: How wide is your perception of your vehicle? I have hauled overwidth loads up that highway this summer and met lots of wide loads coming the other way too. No problem, except for the two bridges, where one of us would have probably had to yield. Two normal width trucks can meet on the bridges though, with no problem and room to spare. I can haul well over ten feet wide on the bridges north of town and stay within my own lane.
Highway lanes are 11 feet wide, painted. How wide is your vehicle?
You’ve been to the Philippines, you know the highway lanes there are only eight feet wide. Did you drive there?
Give more I would like your thoughts on the railway underpasses south of town from a truckers perspective.
Give er more time.wait till winter Giver More. Try that highway in the winter months with fresh snow blowing North of Silver Sands to Mount Lemery where the highway has no shoulder, slow to 60 corners, and traffic avoiding the edge of the road… Good luck with that because often times that is all it is.
If hauling an oil rig or large mine truck they go up on Alberta highways because in Alberta the highways are designed for industry. Intersection lights swivel out of the way, power lines are over height, and highways are wide enough to move things safely… And Alberta gets all the industry as a result. Try moving an oil rig through the Pine underpass and it ain’t going to happen. Try get any of that industry located in PG and good luck with the logistics.
As for the Phillipines your point is irrelevant. If they move an oil rig or anything that size then it is done by barge and not by road. So their roads should not be a justification for our sub standard infrastructure for our economy here IMO.
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