Road Health Grants Available

Saturday, January 20, 2007 03:48 AM

Once again, the call is out for projects aimed at reducing crashes on B.C.'s northern roads.

RoadHealth and its partners (Northern Health, ICBC, Worksafe BC, BC Forest Safety Council, RCMP, Ministry of Transportation, BC Coroner's Service, Ministry of Forests and Range, and the BC Ambulance Service) are looking for ideas that could qualify for a share of $60 thousand dollars in funding being made available by Northern Health.

The whole idea behnd the program is to have local community groups design projects which are focused on community road hazards issues."Community members know best what is needed and what will work," said MaryAnne Arcand, RoadHealth Coordinator and Forestry TruckSafe Manager. "The RoadHealth grant program provides them the opportunity to implement common sense solutions, a 'by us for us' approach, to local road safety issues."

Community organizations and groups have until February 20th to submit their applications.

Funding criteria for the grants include:
· Demonstrated potential to improve road safety
· Partnership development
· Budget plan
· Project evaluation checklist
· Available to community organizations and groups only (not to individuals, businesses or entrepreneurs)

Grant applications are availabale by e-mailing MaryAnne at arcand@bctrucksafe.org

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Posted by: kimbo on January 20 2007 10:56 AM

Maybe this is were Colin is coming from. He wants the extra 4% to make sure our raods are safe.

Cheers

Posted by: owl on January 20 2007 4:34 PM

RoadHealth. TruckSafe. WorkSafe. ForestSafe. BuildSafe. ConstructSafe. HuntSafe. TrainSafe. FlySafe. BeSafe.

It sounds like english is seeing a change to the German language with all those compound words.

What was wrong with RoadSafe?

http://www.roadsafe.com/about/default.aspx

ah .... it was taken ... Britain ... 2001

And they have a "safer roads design" program.
http://www.roadsafe.com/programmes/roads.aspx

Which meshes with the European road assessment program http://217.174.251.13

Here is a page which rates roads in Britain.
http://217.174.251.13/road_lookup?map_type=risk&country=GB&road=

Wonder how our roads would fare.

Posted by: owl on January 20 2007 4:40 PM

seems New Zealand has RoadSafe as well http://www.roadsafeauckland.org.nz

Some very outdated material on the site. Is this an indicator of what we can expect as well? Is this the flavour of the day?

Posted by: thereasonableman on January 20 2007 5:25 PM

Owl, read George Orwell's book, 1984.
Then you will understand. It's doubleplusgood.
Ms. Arcand works for the Ministry of Plenty, or Miniplenty. That's why they have $60,000 whole dollars to improve road safety. That's how seriously they take it.

With that kind of money, they could do several things:

- pay squeegee kids to clean traffic lights and road signs for a few weeks
- patch three potholes
- install 12' of concrete road dividers
- put up 45' of "wildlife reflectors" that don't accomplish anything
- repaint the lines on 15 crosswalks
- pay cops to direct traffic at busy intersections for 6 hours
- award the money to a special interest group that just happens to be very friendly with the co-ordinators of the program, so they can put up a "dead-end road" sign on their dead-end road

I wonder if Ms. Arcand makes more than $60,000 per year to administer the $60,000 ?

Maybe if we didn't have so many fat-cat, government, do-nothing, take care of my friends, useless appointments, we would have more money for really making the roads safe.

60K doesn't cover the daily cost of clearing the roads after a snowfall.

Posted by: thereasonableman on January 20 2007 5:26 PM

That should have been "one" of several things, not all of them.

Posted by: thereasonableman on January 20 2007 5:47 PM

I just got a great idea !

We can buy those orange hi-vis vests for all the animals, just like the mill workers wear.

Posted by: Harbinger on January 21 2007 10:29 AM

I sure would like a "wallet health" cheque from my government. How about it?

Posted by: thereasonableman on January 21 2007 4:27 PM

Harb, you need to apply for part of the BankSafe.