yes Gordo, highway 97 is a priority in your eyes, as apparently highway 16 is also???

Well the message I got, is, that twining highway 97 from Cache Creek to Prince George, is a 40 year project!! So highway 16??? How long a project will that be, Gordo??? you were the one that said, "over a forty year period, for highway 97!!

You are such a self serving individual Gordo, the people of British Columbia, deserve you, if they vote you and your thugs in for another term!!

Can you see the door GC, don't let it hit you in the butt on the way out! A dictatorship, we do not need!! And that is what you are all about. YOU DON'T LISTEN, to the people that pay your wages!! Of course we all know, that we aren't the only ones that pay you!! I think you probably get bigger bucks from elsewhere!!

BYE GORDO

Yup...there IS an election coming!
Campbell must be taking a page from the book of Social Credit!
Highway 16 is a very important piece of road and the government has ignored it for years.
"Campbell says, it won't happen overnight."
Gee Gordon...do you think?

Hey at least they are calling it by it's proper name "Highway 16" and not refering to it as "highway of tears"

I think the taxipothole has a message for the leader of the BC Liberal party, but I'm not sure what it is. I might be wrong but does taxipot not want any money put into better highways?

I was wondering about the same thing!

No anti Gordon Campbell posters here should forget that the during the dark decade of the NDP rule the building of B.C. highways (except for a couple of pet projects) was practically abandoned altogether! The highways budget was slashed into insignificance and most of the work that has been done so far (since 2001) is simply catch-up work!

The twinning of highway 97 is a long range project but it has also been stated over and over that more work will be done on an accelerated schedule as more funds become available and depending on matching funds for infrastructure from the Federal Government! It will also happen sooner as economic conditions change, like they are now with the east west corridor and north south transportation requirements.

Perhaps people prefer to be lied to during an election campaign? Like: "It will be done in five years if you vote for us!"

And then nothing happens?

Agreed Andy, the NDP government did ignore the highways for years. The section between here and Jasper has been greatly improved over the past few years.

Diplomat it seems that you have forgotten the hundreds of millions spent on the much needed Island Highway, tens of millions spent on blasting out and the reducing of major ice spots on the Yellow Head between here and the Alberta border and in the Pine Pass and the twinning of the John Hart bridge and millions in projects in the Kootenay's just to mention a few of the major projects done under NDP.
This is not meant to be a political statement, just give credit where credit is due for either side.

The talk about improving the highways north of Hope only happens leading up to elections. The highway to holiday-land Whistler seemed to go very fast. The highway to Cache Creek was started before and the terrain was less of an issue. Remember, just after election times is when everything gets put on hold that is promised, It's before the vote when everything gets promised again. Our highways are unsafe since it was privatized and this government wont even revisit this. Just remember to vote!

Does this have anything to do with Kinder Morgan's Oil Pipeline from the Alberta Tar Sands to Kitimat?

They have recently completed the new oil pipeline all the way to Valemont.

Perhaps people prefer to be lied to during an election campaign? Like: "It will be done in five years if you vote for us!"

So are you telling us that Gordo is also just giving ua a song, Diplomat?

Happened to drive out to Purden the other day and all we met were a half dozen vehicles. Very important highway isnt it?

Cheers

Bridge, I am simply saying that if during the election campaign it had been promised that the Cariboo Connector will be done in 5 years (without any hope that the promise could/would be kept) it would have been baloney. The Cariboo Connector strategy has no fixed promised time line, it is not a project, it is a strategy. Big difference.

Trackster, the NDP did some highway building as I stated and you point out, but stretched over a whole decade it wasn't very much on an annual basis.

Highways Minister Lois Boone pointed out that highways are not very high on the government's list of priorities. This was in reply to the question why our highways were in such a poor shape.

The twinning of the John Hart happened at the very end of the NDP decade and for a while it looked as if it would never get done, as it was way behind schedule and way over budget.

Surely you remember that.

Diplomat why do you always cherry pick your facts? You either are a politition or in training.

Is Highway 16 more important than the "sea to sky" highway? Yes, it is.
Highway 97 south and north will never be 4 lanes - the roads will barely change under gordo as his priorities are all south.
Just political garbage!!!

You know diplomat,normally you are a pretty logical guy,but it seems now you are implying that Gordon Campbell will not lie to us??
You just bet your bippy he will,and that is exactly why there are so many "anti Gordon Campbell posters" around!
He also lies to the voters in the southern part of the province as well, but they don't seem to care as much.
Too much smog perhaps.
Maybe people here in the north have been lied to one too many times and are just naturally sceptical when it come to political bullsh**t in an election year.
The warm fuzzy hand-outs are only just begining,lots more to come!

"...but it seems now you are implying that Gordon Campbell will not lie to us??" You are jumping to a wrong conclusion! Andyfreeze, he already did! Remember the BCR?

Are you convinced that an alternative to Gordon Campbell will not lie to us or never break any election promises?

If digging up facts for comparison about the poor performance of the BCNDP over a whole decade is *cherry picking* then I am guilty of it.

No apologies.

No apology required diplomat...they ALL lie!
And they all break election promises, so it is better to just assume Campbell is lying for the sake of votes...less lunchbag letdown that way when they don't come through later on.
Personally,I am not anti-Liberal...but I AM anti-Campbell!
And I don't trust anything he says,election or not.
I think the Liberals would be a much better party without Gordo and his inner circle mafia.
Maybe....?

Well, you just about hit the nail square on the head.

Yet, in my opinion (and it has happened before) the alternative (we all know what that would be) is worse than what we are complaining about now.

Can B.C. survive another exodus of businesses of every kind?

This is, after all a business based province in a business based country on a business based continent in a business based world.

Business=Profit.

Even for those who don't like it very much...it is a fact that it is money that makes the world go around.

Money=Capitalism=Profit=The Golden Rule.
(Those who have the gold rule). Reality.

O.k., Kevin, it's your turn! Where is owl?

Hey, that's a good question!
Where IS Owl?

most fairy tales and elections begin with similar sayings ONCE UPON A TIME AND IF ELECTED I PROMISE THEY ALL ARE STRANGERS TO THE TRUTH....

You just about hit the nail square on the head, diplomat. You are right that business and money run the world. The role of government is to balance an attractive enviroment in which to do business and to govern the rules of corporate social resposibilty to the people of the land. Mr Campbell has lost site of the latter and has entered into a corporate profit at all cost mindset. After all it is the will of the people and the rules of the government that corporations cannot hire 11 year old kids to sew clothes 14 hours a day for next to nothing.

of course I want money put into our northern highways, they are disgraceful, but over a forty year period??

We deserve much better for our tax dollars in the north. Over the years, the northern B.C. forest sector has pumped billions of dollars into this Province's coffers. We have gotten very little in return.

So for Campbell to say that highway 16 is on the radar screen, hmmmmmmmmm!! He won't get my vote!!

Like I said, vote for Campbell, those that do, deserve him and his thugs!!