Is this bureaucracy double talk...."upgrades to achieve an industrial collector standard". I have always believed that anyone who has a degree of intelligence can speak in words that all people can understand. Bottom line....more tax dollars to River Road and more roads throughout Prince George degrading further.

You got that right Honestjoe. This whole River Road improvement project is bogus.

1. When was the last time you heard of a head on collision, or vehicles leaving the road in this area????

2. What bloody congestion? There is hardly any traffic on River Road and there is not likely to be any in the forseeable future.

3. Left hand turning signals into the Intermodal Terminal and Lakeland Mills for what???

4. Your lucky if 300 people work in this area on a regular basis. We need a $7 Million upgrade to service this little amount of business., BS.

5. The CN Intermodal facility is loading out some containers with pulp from Northwood Pulp, and some lumber is being loaded into containers in their yard, however this increase in traffic has been offset by the elimination of the trucking of lumber from Bear Lake to Winton Global, and therefore you have approx the same amount of traffic that you have always had.

People in Prince George have very short memories. It was only a couple of years ago that the City was going to expand Queensway through South Ft George and build a road on lower Patricia Blvd to overpass 1st Avenue onto River Road. When they were told by the Federal Government that they would not get any money for this project they scrapped it. (at least for now) Later on they were able to get funding for the upgrade of River Road by using the CN Intermodal Facility as an excuse, and the Government gave them funding under the Asia Pacific Gateway Fund. Because this funding requires the City to match the Federal funds it is going to cost the City (taxpayers) $3.5 Million dollars. This money will come out of your road budget. :Problem is very few people, and industry use this road.

This whole project is all about getting and spending Federal money and tax dollars.

There is absolutely nothing to indicate that in fact this upgrade was needed. As far as flooding goes. The water seeps underground and comes up all over that area, including the East end of 3rd and 4th Avenue, so to suggest that the upgrade will control flooding is BS.

I suspect that the real reason they want to upgrade this road is because at some point they will want to build their Co-Energy System, which I suspect that they will build somewhere on CN Property East of the Intermodal Terminal and South of the Museum. This would explain the **access driveways into existing properties** or **upgrades to achieve and industrial collector standard**

We can only hope that PACHA and the people in the Millar Addition do not fall asleep on this issue. Moving the Energy site frm 4th and Scotia across 1st Avenue to CN Property will not reduce the pollution to the Millar Addition.

Those clowns at City Hall are still working behind closed doors to get this project off the ground, as it means job security for them for the next 10 years.

Waste of money! Fix our other roads first, they are in more need of repairs more so than the BS project like River Rd. Idiots.