YRB does not do their job in Prince George. Every time it snows in the evening they don't touch highway 16 past the Beaverly fire hall until at least 3am.

YRB for example last night would turn their trucks around at the fire hall (witnessed at least three times), and yet only 1km away the Mud River hill had a foot of snow on it, and it is the major choke point of the whole highway, and yet they didn't have a spare plow to do the hill until 3AM? Meanwhile on the YRB Vanderhoof side you will see 5-6 plows at work keeping the roads clear throughout the night... and yet the YRB PG side has maybe one truck that doesn't even do past Beaverly until just before morning traffic.

I think YRB should lose their contract for failure to provide the service and I think when the provincial government takes over the service to ensure the service is rendered... they will almost assuredly need more plow trucks in the PG region if they are to be able to maintain the roads, because if one truck is all that is available for PG... then we are obviously very short of the equipment that is required to get the job done.

I think if YRB bid on the job they should be held to account when they are unable to fulfill their obligations. That accountability is not happening IMO because the whole purpose of privatization was so that the government could wash their hands of responsibility for the road maintenance and as such our government supports this kind of service, as long as they feel the majority of people will not hold them accountable for it.

We need to start holding our elected MLA's accountable, because it hurts our economy, and more people are likely to be killed as a result of the road conditions.

What a thankless job YRB has. All people do is complain that 'their' road isn't cleaned the second a snowflake hits it.

They're not perfect, but unless they have 1000 trucks on the street 24/7, I don't see how they ever could be.

MrPG I disagree. The snow started yesterday at 4PM and as of 3AM not a single YRB truck had gone past the firehall on highway 16 and I know this for a fact. When you have a foot of snow on a major highway and a major hill to boot then they simply are not doing their job.

11-hours with no sand truck and plow in those conditions is not acceptable for a major highway route. Especially when trucks are spun out blocking the hill forcing other trucks to do dangerous passes in oncoming lanes to get through and still no highway maintenance shows up for 5 hours after the first trucks started to spin out and calls were made requesting a plow truck. That is simply not acceptable for a major highway route and has huge costs to the industry that uses that highway especially the mills out west that are dependent on that highway staying open.

MrPG I wonder when they already know trucks are spun out on the hill and have been for more than 2-hours and yet they still turn around at the top of the hill and head back to town without doing the hill... then what really are they being paid for anyways and what is their purpose?

Is the purpose of road maintenance not to keep traffic moving by working the the most critical areas first, and the less critical areas after the critical choke points are cleared? Why then would they have their only truck turn around at the top of the hill and head back to town without first putting some sand on the hill minimum? 10 minutes of effort and their main job for the night would have been done.

Without knowing where the trucks are or what they're dealing with, it's easy to sit back and criticize.

If you're timid, don't have an appropriate vehicle or you're a redneck who thinks a lift kit makes your dick bigger - please stay the hell off the roads, they are s-h-*-t-t-y.

"If you're timid, don't have an appropriate vehicle or you're a redneck who thinks a lift kit makes your dick bigger - please stay the hell off the roads, they are s-h-*-t-t-y"

Indeed, they are brutal. All will be back to normal in a day or two.

lol@working ya fuckin right..ospika,15th,5th ave is still not done and its 5pm now.gimme a break you guys are the laziest over paid dummies i ever saw in my life.you guys are all bozos and get over paid when you really have the brain capacity of a infantile retard

WE SHOULD OF VOTED FOR FETTERLY

eagleone- 11-hours with no sand truck and plow in those conditions is not acceptable for a major highway route. Especially when trucks are spun out blocking the hill forcing other trucks to do dangerous passes in oncoming lanes to get through and still no highway maintenance shows up for 5 hours after the first trucks started to spin out and calls were made requesting a plow truck. That is simply not acceptable for a major highway route and has huge costs to the industry that uses that highway especially the mills out west that are dependent on that highway staying open. The only people spinning out on the hills are chip truck drivers from EXCEL and of course LOMAK. Where are the chains they are supposed to carry by law from fall to spring. If you have them, use them. These drivers should be fined for not using them in snowy conditions.

To Ed Shearer;

City of Prince George snow removal. Where in the hell have they plowed in the last 24 hours. They couldn't even plow the parking lot at CN Place to allow for proper parking tonight. 5 th and 15th Avenue haven't been touched and in fact between 9:30 and 10:00 am this morning I seen 4 Graders and 2 loaders driving around with their blades or buckets up. This was in a 20 minute drive through the moguls between 20th and Queensway and Pine Centre.
And I suppose when and if this dump is removed, your budget will be all spent.

We phoned the city this morning and they told us that they werent going to start plowing anything but bus routes until monday after the snow was supposed to stop dropping.... AND I DID NOT SEE 1 CITY PLOW ALL DAY!!!! Im a courier and was all over the city today and did not see a single plow truck.. But I did see a snowplow clearing the sidewalks on the simon fraser bridge....... go figure that one out

Move over Phil Beaulieu and Dianne Rogers !!!
Ed Shearer is gonna join you on the bus.

Not a single plow anywhere near the school bus routes on the Hart this afternoon...what gives?

Or the bus routes!

If resorting to blogging foul mouthed stuff is a sign of low intelligence, then Rizzo gets the award. So Ben and Elaine, why do you allow this kind of posting on this site?

I can't understand why the city was clearing roads around Taylor, Birch, Cedar at 09:30 when you could hardly get down Queensway or any other downtown street.

Sledhead talk to the guys with the brown trucks, because they were the ones all over the hill. Same thing for Peden Hill in the morning traffic. Hard to blame them though when their belly pans of the trailers are only 4" off the ground and the snow is a foot deep and wet plowing up hill.

The roads in those critical locations should have a priority status for a road standard 24/7 no excuses what so ever.

It endangers everyone else on the road as a result whether it be dodging spun out trucks blocking the highway on the hills, or people catching snow drifts and losing control. Someone will have to be killed before standards are enforced is unfortunately the way things are....

There should never be more than 4"s of snow on the main highways ever IMO. there is no excuse for it. If they don't have the trucks buy more, and if they don't have the employees then pay them a wage.

Peden Hill, is YRB, and I agree, this is a problem spot every snow fall! They should be on this hill as soon as the first snow flake falls. Every year the same, trucks jackknifed, highway closed for hours.

There is a solution apparently. They use it on most of the bridges now. They put a product down on the driving surface, well ahead of winter. When the snow hits the surface of the bridge, it melts, leaving very little ice. The city tried it on Carney Hill by Massey one winter, the hill was free of ice and snow all winter!

It seems to me like a no brainer! Sooooooooooooooo Mr. YRB, why don't you take care of this serious, seasonable problem, as this is part of highway 16??? Is it because you are dictated to by some morons in Victoria, that have a different idea of what "SNOW IS"

"And I suppose when and if this dump is removed, your budget will be all spent"

It was spent before this snowfall. They are likely trying to make the $ go as far as they can rather than giving safe driving in a city the major consideration in making decisions.

What I find is that since Mr. Shearer joined the city a few years ago is that the snow clearing has gone down hill. They no longer honor the snow clearing guidelines that are posted on the city web site and rather it seems to be a random way of clearing the snow. I understand about downtown being done at night time and the residential during the day but why are not the bus routes being done ? What was 1st ave done ahead of say 5th ave that is a major road and used extensively by the fire and ambulance crews.

We should have GPS tracking on the vehicles like some other cities have and then we could actually see where they are and what they are up to.

I think the crews themselves do a great job it is the management / timing of them that is being questioned.

Spotted an endangered species in PG. After consultation with experts as to the name of this creature, they was confirmed it is call a snowplow.

635 klms of road, snowed for nearly 48 hours! SOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO

What km of road do you live on. Come on all you experts, tell me which road you live on, so I can get a dump truck, and deliver all the snow I got on my street!!

YOU are all a bunch of no minds, common sense does not prevail in your world.

Like I said before, it is better to keep your mouth shut, and let people think you are an idiot, than to open it, and remove all doubt!!

You are all so pathetic when it comes to snow removal. GET OUT, go to a place where there is NO snow, leave us alone!! Whiners.

City of my birth, does a great job of snow removal! That would be PG

@ taxinapothole

PG does a great job of snow removal...are you on crack or are you related to Ed Shearer

Taxinapothole said,

"Like I said before, it is better to keep your mouth shut, and let people think you are an idiot, than to open it, and remove all doubt!!"

ROTFLMAO how ironic? lol Thanks for the great laugh.... :)