Bad planning… Still no school buses through at 6:30.

Expect min 3-4 hours to get through.

This type of unnecessary delay borders on abuse. Four or five hours in the hot sun, because of poor planning by the Government and its contractors is unacceptable.

Try to pull this bullshit in Victoria on a mainstream road used by the Government and its workers and all hell would break loose.

Did Fisheries not allow a temporary bridge across the creek, or the use of a bailey bridge or some sort of alternate. Its much easier to hassle the public than to do any creative thinking.

Pretty rash comments there Palopu.
Do you think that YRB planned for the bridge supports to begin washing out at a time convenient to them, on day shift?
I understand that someone noticed it this morning, and emergency repairs were started almost immediately.
How many days would it take to get a Bailey bridge installed and ready for heavy traffic?
They would have to install a safe road bed where there is currently only ditches and private land.
I thought that YRB did okay, they managed to get one way alternating traffic flowing by about 5 pm.
I too was caught in the line up and had to wait, but had a source of entertainment; my 2 way radio. Tuned into LAD1 and giggled to myself at all the stupid comments being made by, I assume, inexperienced “professional drivers”.
They were outraged at being made to wait, lots of comments about “lack of planning” etc,etc.
To be fair, there were a few voices of reason on Lad1 ( more experienced drivers?)
metalman.

Five hour wait? There are at least two ways around that spot. I certainly wouldn’t have waited that long…..

Google Earth Streetview imagery was taken in June 2012. It shows portable orange and wide construction bollards positioned on the shoulders of both north and south lanes on both sides of the river. So, we have an obvious similar situation 3 years ago at about the same time in the season.

On top of that, the approach to the bridge deck from both north and south is at a grade of between 3 to 4%. That, coupled with the concern of an abutment washout which required the total closure of both lanes of a highway, tells me this bridge was not built to meet the seasonal conditions of the creek crossing. The obvious first indictors are that the deck of the bridge is too low. The approaches from both north and south should have been built with a shallower approach to a bridge deck which is elevated to a greater height above the creek bed with support on both sided of the creek which are placed on solid footings and protected from water action which has the potential to undermine the abutments.

With that information, someone like Palopu might want to go to Highways to find out when they are going to fix the problem to a standard we should expect of provincial highways no matter where they are in BC.

I, for one, am tired of inferior standards.

Congested traffic, something lower mainlanders deal with on a daily basis.

Putting up signs showing the alternate route around for the traffic that needed to get through would have worked too. They had better spend some money this summer on both those bridges.

Where is this “alternate” route?

There are two alternate routes, I will probably be corrected and told there are three. North Fraser via willow river, and muskeg river via 200rd.. chief lake road. And behind summit lake there are roads all over the place in there.

Posted on Friday, May 22, 2015 @ 9:25 AM by X-it

There are two alternate routes, I will probably be corrected and told there are three. North Fraser via willow river, and muskeg river via 200rd.. chief lake road. And behind summit lake there are roads all over the place in there

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Yeah, heading west would probably have worked; would depend on what kind of shape the roads are in though. Heading east on North Fraser would be one long trip!

Heading east would not have been half bad for those heading out the yellowhead. Turn left as soon as you cross the fraser river and you would come out past purden lake. Other wise 2 hrs extra

The east route would have been ok but the Chief Lake route would’ve been better. It’s a moot point now but with a little knowledge from highway officials would’ve made this less painful.