It is amazing how it is available here but Drive BC has nothing on its site. I am sitting in the east bound line up right now. Hope to be moving soon.

This will be one of the best sanded sections of the highway now, too bad it takes a serious accident to get the contractor to do his job. When will someone look at the road maintenance contract and either fix it or enforce it.

Extremely high traffic on what is nothing more than a goat trail doesn’t help the situation much.

Posted on Monday, January 19, 2015 @ 12:45 PM by restjet said in part (When will someone look at the road maintenance contract and either fix it or enforce it
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Highway maintenance contracts are on line under the Ministry site, interesting reading , you have the same rights as everyone else to look up the contract and to lay a complaint if you so wish., but hay, who wants to spend their time learning about the standards.

If as stated in the story (The road was so icy you could not stand up) then either the contract is insuffecient to maintain safe roads or the contractor is not living up to their obligations. This is a main highway and it was 12 hours since the snow stopped. I have not been out to the accident site but I bet it is heavily sanded now. The question would be Why sand it now? Oh ya it is slippery.

You’ll will get no argument from me on , restjet. Been there done that, In the eyes of the government they are like a God and can do no harm or wrong, that much I know about the Highways. Never ever heard of the government reprimanding anyone.

It is the Liberal way- privatize and forget about it. We have had so many accidents in this area due to poor road maintenance.
Who supervises YRB? It appears that they have their own supervisors and no one from the government.

Posted on Monday, January 19, 2015 @ 4:41 PM by oldman1

It is the Liberal way- privatize and forget about it. We have had so many accidents in this area due to poor road maintenance.

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Are you sure they weren’t the result of bad driving habits? If the roads are ice, slow down and don’t pass. I’ve lost track of the number of people I see hitting a corner way too fast then slamming on the brakes. Guess what ends up happening to them?

I drove that road yesterday at the height of the storm. The roads were quite slippery but we all manged to take our foot off the gas and lose enough speed that the curves were fine.

A good example is Otway—-City section is bare and wet—- Where Yrb takes over is 4″ of compact and slushy, same road different contractors. When the goverment gives out a contract where you have to maintain minimum standards there is no incentive to do a GREAT job. So you can’t really blame YRB, less spent more left over. One good law suit would wake up everyone.

Axman, If the vehicle in the accident inadvertently caught that slush build up near the center of the highway it could possibly cause a loss of control even at a low speed, possibly his load may have shifted adding to further loss of control, there are many factors that can come into play to cause an accident. I ask you if the slush was the cause of the accident, then, who do you blame the vehicle who lost control or the highways for not having plowed off the slush .

oldman1 I believe it was the Socreds that privatized the highways maintenance. Vander Zalm maybe?

Axman, yer right, carry on.

There was a sand truck going down the hill same time as the accident. He was not plowing or sanding? Sand/salt anything at -2 would work to mitigate the icy conditions. And yes I was there and you could not walk on the road without taking great care not to slip. Drivers are drivers and some may not be good at it, but there is no excuse for this highway to be that treturous. It was the same way at 11:00 last night when I was driving home.

Terrible drivers abound everywhere. Too much speed.

Thankfully there were no fatalities. Wonder what the attributing factors were? Poor driving habits? or lack of road maintenance? Lets ask the P.G. road professionals..Over to you J.B. and P Val

Goat trail … sharp corner at the end of the goat trail bridge.

Drive accordingly for a 1960 style road with a 100k limit.

It doesn’t take a road professional to drive to the conditions, Mav. Just someone with common sense. Don’t have that? Then turn in your license.

Or live in a fairy tale bubble were everything is perfect hey J.B.

Hopefully for you J.B. you will never have to test your driving skill against an out of control vehicle which is flailing in your direction. Judging by the amount of time you harbor this site, you don’t get out much so I guess you’ll be safe to judge another day.

Posted on Monday, January 19, 2015 @ 5:37 PM by furtree

Axman, If the vehicle in the accident inadvertently caught that slush build up near the center of the highway it could possibly cause a loss of control even at a low speed, possibly his load may have shifted adding to further loss of control, there are many factors that can come into play to cause an accident. I ask you if the slush was the cause of the accident, then, who do you blame the vehicle who lost control or the highways for not having plowed off the slush .

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You’re driving faster then you should be if the slush is going to cause an accident of this magnitude. Besides, the roads sure look bare in the photo. Someone was driving too fast for the conditions is my guess. Your guess may differ.

Furtree:
If there is slush on the road, please slow down………..
It is a big cause in too many vehicle incidents, folks tend to overdrive and don’t get it til it’s too late.
When you’re there,and you’re saying “Oh Crap”, it’s too late to place blame on a contractor.

axman,Even after many folks here have said they were on that highway at different times last or this morning they all state basically the same thing the highway conditions were not good. Are you spin off from Gus?

Mav: “Judging by the amount of time you harbor this site, you don’t get out much so I guess you’ll be safe to judge another day.”

Aww, all you have left is passive aggressive cheap shots. Too bad.

Maybe 250news could post the phone numbers of the highways inspectors. Those are the people to get in touch with if there are problems on the highways. They tell the highway contractor what needs to be done if there are problems.

Posted on Monday, January 19, 2015 @ 8:44 PM by furtree

axman,Even after many folks here have said they were on that highway at different times last or this morning they all state basically the same thing the highway conditions were not good.

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It sounds like there were a lot of people out and about who should have stayed home.

“If 50 million people say something foolish, it is still foolish.”