Highway 16 Repairs Could Take Till May

Monday, April 16, 2007 03:55 AM

It will take thousands of truck loads of material to fill the slide area on Highway 16 east, near Slim Creek. It will take hundreds of thousands of dollars to make the repairs.

Repairs to the roadway may take a couple of weeks to complete, making it May before the highway is back to full operation. The cost of the fill and fix will be in the $750 thousand to $1 million dollar mark.

A huge chunk of the westbound lane near Slim Creek slid into the ravine on Wednesday night. No one injured.

The Highway is open to single lane , alternating traffic.

This is the second time in 15 years that a chunk of road in that Slim Creek area has slipped. The other slip was just 400 meters from the latest site.

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Posted on Monday, April 16, 2007 03:55 AM in News by 250 News

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Comments

Posted by: Gofaster on April 16 2007 8:33 AM

Now if this was the Sea to Sky highway I feel old Gordo would see it fixed a lot quicker than that....

Posted by: Gofaster on April 16 2007 8:34 AM

But to those working on this slide with what they have, or don't have...I thank them.

Posted by: Andyfreeze on April 16 2007 11:41 AM

I agree with Gofaster.If this was the lower mainland,it would be as done.
Unfortunate,but hey,it happens!
But just wait til the runoff REALLY starts to happen!We are gonna look like Venice in a lot of places!!Nechacko in Vanderhoof coming up FAST!!
Could be quite an interesting and costly spring!

Posted by: Gofaster on April 16 2007 11:46 AM

Interesting indeed!

Posted by: Chadermando on April 16 2007 1:05 PM

I wouldn't want to drive a transport truck on that single lane remaining, rumbbling over that with 63 tons.

Posted by: Palopu on April 16 2007 5:07 PM

$750,000.00 repair to roadway two weeks.

$750,000.00 repair to Cameron St., Bridge 18 months and still no action.

If we lost the John Hart, and Foothills bridge for some reason, our illustrious City Fathers would have the Camerson St. Bridge up and running within two weeks.

Funny how you can waste money and manipulate situations if your back isnt against the wall.