Province Promises Quesnel Transportation Plan
Quesnel, B.C.- The City of Quesnel is getting exactly what it asked for, $300 thousand dollars for a transportation plan. Ministry of Transportation has announced it will devote $300 thousand dollars over the next two years to conduct a transportation plan for Quesnel.
The Ministry of Transportation has announced it will devote $300 thousand over the next two years to conduct a transportation plan for Quesnel. The announcement comes just a couple of weeks after Mayor Bob Simpson wrote to the Ministry calling for an “expedited response” to their request for such a plan.
Quesnel has several concerns with the current traffic pattern which sees industrial and hazardous goods travelling on highway 97, through the heart of the community, there are also safety and air quality issues.
The Provincial plan will also examine the possibility of an east-west link that would service industrial development west of Quesnel.
In a recent interview, with 250News, Quesnel Mayor Bob Simpson said the community has concerns about the potential of a hazardous goods disaster happening so close to the hospital. Simpson also told 250News there have been four different route suggestions over the years, but there hasn’t been any solid decision on the type of route that is needed.
Minister of Transportation, Todd Stone says his Ministry is “committed to work with the City of Quesnel to establish future project priorities to improve traffic flow through the downtown core. We’re looking forward to starting a much-needed study to address the area’s transportation needs.”
In addition to the transportation plan, there will be some resurfacing work started in Quesnel . That work will be done in four areas:
- Highway 97 between Quartz Road and the junction with Highway 26.
- Highway 97 between Naver Road and Plett Road.
- The approach to the weigh scale located south of the junction of Highway 97 and Highway 26.
- 6.6 km of local side roads.
The recycled asphalt product generated from the milling of the pavement on Highway 97 will be re-used to resurface the local side roads.
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‘Quesnel, B.C.- The City of Quesnel is getting exactly what it asked for, [b]$300 thousand dollars for a transportation plan. [/b]Ministry of Transportation has announced it [b]will devote $300 thousand dollars over the next two years[/b] to conduct a transportation plan for Quesnel.
The Ministry of Transportation has announced [b]it will devote $300 thousand over the next two years to conduct a transportation plan for Quesnel. [/b] The announcement comes just a couple of weeks after Mayor Bob Simpson wrote to the Ministry calling for an “expedited response” to their request for such a plan.’
– lol, who wrote this?
Just in case you missed it the first time?
Throwing Rover a very small bone – this urgent issue has been put on the back burner again! One would think that the Lac Megantic fiery deadly incident serves as a lesson to the whole country!
Heres an idea. Lets spend 20 Billion dollars over the next 20 years and bypass every City, Town, and Hamlet from Prince Rupert, to Halifax NS. By the time we finish industry will have built up around the bypass, and we can start all over again.
Sounds good to me Palopu but let’s start with Quesnel.
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