Another photo op. for hamburger Pattie.
"Look what we built for the people"!
"Improving lives, enhancing safety"
Translation: We can't seem to stop those log truckers from pulling across the highway in front of traffic, so we have to build an overpass.
I wonder if Canfor helped pay for it, all the log truck traffic using this intersection is going to or coming from Isle Pierre, is it not?
metalman.

Thats a big 10-4 rubber duck

make canfor pay for an overpass in these troubling times for the lumber industry they would probably shutdown the sawmill before spending money on a overpass that won't make them a dime

looks like we got us a convoy!
And if we are Canfor;
"we ainta gonna pay no toll"
tee hee, god I'm clever.
metalman.

How about the railway underpasses south of town? Fourlaning the hwy. over the next 100 hundred years, but what about those god awlful underpasses.

Yeah, I was wondering about that too. Do the overpasses get extended or twinned to match the semi modern highway we are paying for? Only in B.C. would we have to narrow down to two lanes through the underpass, then widen back out to four lanes.
metalman.

The overpass was funded by BC timber sales.I saw the contract on BC Bid a while back under BC Timber sales.

B.C. Timber Sales, an arm of the B.C. Provincial government. Ergo; taxpayer funded subsidization in the name of safety I imagine, but mainly benefitting Canfor
and the log haul contractors. It seems slightly ridiculous that an overpass can be built way out there for logging traffic (used only when they are logging, mostly) which will eventually peter out as the timber is raped oops I mean harvested, and we cannot seem to get any overpasses for intersections in town that are already very busy, and will probably remain busy for as long as we drive automobiles. It does not make any sense to me.
metalman.

Keep up Metalman!! Watch the messages between the lines... the twaddle nits in the Queen city cannot make it TOO obvious.

The next several staircase increases in the "carbon tax" will avoid the need for overpasses in your town.... since fewer and fewer people will be driving vehicles, there will be no demand for enhancements.

Quite a plan eh ?? Now does it make sense ??

:-)

V.

Posted by: seamutt on August 7 2008 9:41 AM
How about the railway underpasses south of town? Fourlaning the hwy. over the next 100 hundred years, but what about those god awlful underpasses.

If I am not mistaken the railway right of way is owned by the railway even where it crosses the hwy. Bet it won't be the railway paying for any new over passes.

Strange that there have been logs hauled across the hwy out there for many years without any incidents, that there is now a need for this thing makes me wonder.

if that railroad was part of the BC rail network which was not sold to CN [only lessed for 60 years times 60 leases] than we the taxpayer still own the railbed and guess who gets to pay.

I believe there is only 15 km of BCR track that was not sold to CNR and it is located at Roberts Bank.

I thought I read somewhere that the CEO that looks after that 15km section receives about 500 thou a year of taxpayers dollars.