Won’t be around to see it completed as we are in year 5-6 of the 50 year plan. Can’t wait to buy a flying car so roads will not be necessary :)

I made a similar comment in the cariboo connector story, but in the other news site (citizen), it says cariboo connector is to be done in a decade. Just not sure if we both mean the same thing, I would take it means PG to Cache Creek. So, when I am retired, I will be able to buy a huge motorhome, and just to be a dink, I’ll drive in the inside lane all the way to Vancouver with keep right except to pass echoing in my mind :)

They already announced it in the News, so why is he wasting taxpayers money flying around repeating same stuff/?? who is he trying to convince??/

Hey ski take it easy. You probably already have a truck . I need the caribou Connector to visit my friends in Prince George.
Cheers

Actually Retired – my wife has the truck. I’m comfort oriented and drive a comfy floaty car. And nice try. Everyone in PG knows that highway only travels one direction – no one ever comes here to visit.

If asphalt was bullshit every road in BC would be 2 feet thick (61 cm )in asphalt.

SOMEHOW I thought that the prosperity of LNG leading us to the promised land was going to look after all of this in due course? MUST OF all been a bad dream. WHAT about plan “b”…..DO WE EVEN HAVE A PLAN KRUSTY???

He should visit the first responders and undertaker/Cornor in revelstoke .

Man, the way the 250 curmudgeons beotch about road upgrades amazes me. I would hate to see what would happen if he had stood up there and announced no new road work, you guys would really lose it.
Once again I feel sorry for the misery some people look for in their sad existence. Carry on though.

Not “new” money, same old plan. Just re-announcing so that they can advertise #onthemove for the next two years on your dime and then at the next election tell you what a great job they’re doing spending your money.

Mr. Stone, travelling the province, on your dime, to tell you how he’s going to spend your money. Same story every stop.

Some one please ask him why if we have an $800M surplus public school boards are having to make cuts in every district in the province, but the BC Gov has extra money for private schools.

Fate – the government gives the district aprox $7,000.00 per kid, they give private schools $3,500.00 a kid, so a private school kid costs the taxpayer $3,500.00 per year less, and the government provides no funding for capital improvements for private schools, but do for public schools. So in a sense, every private school kid saves the taxpayer $3,500.00. That extra money you are seeing, is a shift in enrollment from public to private schools, probably because some parents got pissed off at the strike and have moved their kids. So, if they announced say 50 million more for private schools, the other side of the coin, is it’s 100 million less they have to give public schools, we the taxpayer, still win by 50 million.

Now, there is an argument to be made, that if you cut the funding to private schools entirely, that some private school kids would migrate back to the public system, but most would stay private, and their parents – who have paid taxes like the rest of us, would pay increased tuition. I think for the rich people schools, the parents have deep pockets and would pay more, for the low end religious and philosophical based schools, parents would likely send their kids to public, and you might think that would be a great idea, except now you’ve got religious parents ranting about your godless curriculum and you might think it cheaper to just give them the cash and keep them where they are.

Fate, if your child goes to private school it saves the province at least half of what they pay for public school kids. So you see, put more kids in private school and you can get a surplus in education dollars. The province also does not supply a facilities grant for private schools as they do for public – another win win. Public schools should all be broke by rights but they are not bound by the BCTF agreements and thus can supply education for far less bucks than the public system, cool eh? Even once you factor in what the parents pay it is still a bunch cheaper, go figure? Far less bullying and other public school plagues affecting kids, wth eh?

What a load of hooey the Clark Brigade keeps spouting. But then again, this is the government that BC keeps voting in, isn’t it?

I really think before these clowns stand up and spout about highway safety they should do a body recovery at 3:00 a.m. in the morning from any mountain pass in the province before they talk. Marking the roads and putting the knoll posts back in throughout the province would make driving a bit safer. Signing and providing advanced notice for pullouts and rest stops would make driving safer. Using real road durable reflective paint instead of the water based crap they are using now would make the roads safer. Seriously these clowns need to wake up and do instead of talk, talk is cheap and we have listened to enough throughout the province.

Well said Professional

Good idea Professional get rid of the water painted lines, must cost a fortune remarking every year but we need to save the environment much important than human lives and don’t forget the fish.

Not for interceptor eyes…
In 2008 the B.C. Liberals added a further 3.5 cent tax per litre on gasoline for transportation then another 2.4 per litre carbon tax added then further increased to 7.24 in 2012. Show us the money.

Gas taxes for PG region are 10 cents federal tax, 14.5 cents provincial tax, 6.67 cents carbon tax, and 5 percent GST

Yes what about that carbon tax…. Its nothing more than another regressive flat tax that once collected leaves this region never to be seen again. We are not going to see hydrogen fueling stations anytime soon around these parts.

The carbon tax has nothing to do with actually fighting global warming, or we wouldn’t have as our primary strategy in this province, being the carbon based energy extraction. The carbon tax was just a way for the BC liberals to divide and conquer in their quest to transfer taxes from the wealthy to everyone else… a regressive tax (the carbon tax) to take the place of further income tax cuts to the progressive source of taxation revenue. They even called it revenue neutral at the time, which it turns out it wasn’t, so just another hidden tax hike.

Ironically exporting LNG to Asia will probably do more for renewable energy in Northern BC than any carbon tax ever will (windfarms in Chetwynd and Tumbler Ridge will boom time). They say for wind energy to have a positive net present value over natural gas, that natural gas needs to sell at twice what it sells for now. So by exporting LNG to Asia we fulfill the energy sector wish of world prices for our LNG, which in Asia is 10x what it is in BC (try heating your home on that)… therefor making renewable energy sources close to a third of the cost of natural gas as an energy source.

I would like to ask the Minister, what about those bridges up north that need to be replaced… Salmon Valley and the Parsnip… huge choke points to PG getting established for the work in the oil and gas fields up north… as well as big safety issues in the winter.

Eagleone read the report.

Page 34

Where it states ” undertake design for replacement”

Parsnip River & Salmon River bridges Hwy. 97 north.

Eagleone, not sure what your definition of “revenue neutral” is but they do pay out what they take in – that is what they refer to as “revenue neutral”. You are right that it actually isn’t as they have paid out more than they took in on the programs and grants so far.