More Transportation Projects Announced
Chetwynd, B.C. – Another $6.9 million in transportation work is underway on Highway 97.
The work is taking place in the District of Chetwynd and will see the Wildmare Bridge replaced, and repairs made to frost-damaged sections of Highway 97.
The Wildmare Bridge replacement project will include a new wider and higher bridge that can handle heavy equipment and large infrastructure as it moves along the highway to industrial areas in the region.
The project is expected to be complete by the end of November this year.
The repairs to he roadway because of frost heaving damage, is expected to be complete by the end of September.
Transportation Minister Todd Stone referred to Highway 97 as a “vital corridor” in the region.
In addition to increased activity in the natural resource sector, the area is also seeing the movement of equipment and infrastructure materials to the Site C project.
Comments
They need to repair a lot of the repairs that were done a few years back due to the flooding they had up there. Shoddy work abounds.
Tell that to Todd Stoned
Must be an election coming soon. All these projects seem to pop up just before an election so the incumbent can be re-elected.
What is the job of a politician?
To get elected.
What is the job of a politician in office?
To get re-elected.
How can you tell a politician is lying?
Their lips are moving.
Dumbfounded, I drive the road quite often. It was tore up pretty bad, actually it was tore up really, really bad during those floods. I don’t think that anybody complained that the highway was repaired and re-opened in the time that it was. There was definitely a need to get it repaired and re-opened as quickly as possible. I am sure that the quality of work would have been better IF they had kept the roads closed longer or IF they had kept parts of the road down to single lanes with pilot cars for a much longer period. BUT, we wanted the road re-opened to normal traffic ASAP, didn’t we!
So, if there is some remedial work to be done now, so be it!
Loki, there isn’t a provincial election coming up. Who’s paying for the work, the Province or the Feds? Seems we complain that no money is spent in the north but we also complain when money is spent in the north, haha!
Harper is shovelling infrastructure money off the back of his election campaign wagon and the provinces have no choice but come up with the matching 50% or the money will go somewhere else!
Just read that Ontario matched the federal 50 million dollar gift to Toyota Canada (total 100 million of taxpayer money!), hich made 18 billion dollars in net profit last year! Toyota is number two behind VW which is number one globally and GM which is in third place.
The federal gift is to make sure that the Conservative ridings stay that way, because if the jobs would go to Mexico it wouldn’t be good news for the Feds!
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