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Bridge Re-opened

By 250 News

Sunday, January 21, 2007 04:58 PM

        The Yellowhead Bridge has been reopened, the bridge was closed after a Semi Trailer Unit jackknifed due to sliipery conditions blocking the entire bridge.

        For a period of time,  traffic had to be rerouted around the accident scene. The bridge , was re opened 5 pm Sunday night.

       RCMP say,  that fresh snow , is making the roads very slippery.


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Posted on Sunday, January 21, 2007 04:58 PM in News by 250 News

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Comment Posted by: thereasonableman on January 21 2007 8:57 PM
The bridge was reopened with the assistance of BridgeSafe and TruckSafe, RoadSafe and RoadHealth.

The RCMP are wrong about the snow being the problem. Everybody should be driving according to road conditions, that means 10 km/h maximum wherever you go.
Comment Posted by: herbster on January 21 2007 10:48 PM
Privatizing road maintenance was a brilliant move by the Liberals. It puts the responsibility on the private citizen where it should be. Now we just have to comvince everyone to drive ski-doos from November to March.Truck traffic? just use BC-oops CN Rail!
Comment Posted by: Gofaster on January 22 2007 4:37 AM
RCMP didn't say that snow was "THE" problem but rather snow was making roads slippery, and they were right.
Other factors could have been tiredness, not knowing the road, going too fast for road conditions, note I didn't say speeding.
Or the driver could have been cut off by one of our ding-dong, self inportant, drive like and idiot,local drivers. No not every one is in this category. But there definitely a few out there.

I doubt that the investigation has covered all the possiblilities for the cause of the accident. Therefore it is not up to me to assign blame or reasons.
Comment Posted by: acrider54 on January 22 2007 6:16 AM
Another "professional" driver seems to me they are the cause of most highway closures. You even see them on their side in a rest area.
Comment Posted by: thereasonableman on January 22 2007 8:28 AM
Maybe it was space aliens....
Comment Posted by: diplomat on January 22 2007 9:12 AM
>Everybody should be driving according to road conditions, that means 10 km/h maximum wherever you go.<

Sorry, can't be done! Going that slow one might drive into a giant pothole and never get out again!
Comment Posted by: thereasonableman on January 22 2007 1:00 PM
acid rider...they are called professional drivers because they do it for a living, not because they are any good at it.
Comment Posted by: acrider54 on January 22 2007 5:52 PM
thereasonableman, Bull! Driving class one vehicles is a profession! A professional takes pride in what they do and are supposed to be experts in their field. What is your profession? Bag boy? But maybe you are right with that they don't know what they are doing, as they are giving Class One drivers lisences away these days. I'd hate to run into a professional Doctor who doesn't know what he or she are doing. And by the way are assumming I do acid or something? What are you on? Must be crack.
Comment Posted by: thereasonableman on January 26 2007 2:11 AM
Bag boy, crack, and no I was just being a smartass.
:-p