7 Kms of P.G. Roads in for Resurfacing

Wednesday, July 18, 2007 03:57 PM

More pavement on the list to be repaired.

The provincial government is putting $5.2 million into upgrading that stretch of highway which has taken a beating due to heavy logging and industrial truck traffic through Prince George.

7 kilometers of highway will be resurfaced this summer. The repairs this summer will include:

3.2 kilometers from 1st Avenue and Victoria through downtown to the Highway 97/16 interection, and 4 kilometers from the Southridge overpass to west of the Gauthier and Bunce intersection..

Intersection improvements will be made at 20th Ave and at 9th Ave. A median barrier will also be installed between Highway 97 and 20 Ave. and from Southridge Overpass to Bunce/Gauthier, to improve safety and reduce non-permitted traffic movements.

Cost sharing partners for this phase of the project include the City of Prince George (intersection improvements) and ICBC (installation of median barrier).

The work is expected to start July 20th.

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Posted on Wednesday, July 18, 2007 03:57 PM in News by 250 News

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Posted by: lunarguy on July 18 2007 7:02 PM

I hope they change the lights / traffic patterns at 20th and Victoria. I can't get over how long it takes to get through that intersection for how light the traffic actually is. Talk about global warming, spending most of your time at lights that are not on traffic sensors so you sit there watching green lights in directions that there is no traffic !

Posted by: camoose on July 18 2007 10:41 PM

I can't see where the Ciy can take much credit for these improvements. Mostly highways responsibility. So where is our 4% tax increase for roads being spent. Sure hope that the money didn't go into general revenue or one of the reserve funds that the City runs. Seems these improvements that the province is paying for is more than they are spending on the "Cariboo Con" Guess we all will have to vote for the Lieberals to see this come to pass. Maybe even more than one election after the Olympics.

Posted by: YamaDooPolCat on July 19 2007 12:09 AM

I get a real laugh out of that Idle Free Zone at City Hall! As if they give a rat's butt about us idling our cars when you look at how many unnecessary traffic lights there are in this town.

Posted by: diplomat on July 19 2007 9:16 AM

The Mayor will take credit for this provincial paid for totally overdue resurfacing! He did when the Hart Highway and the Bypass were done by the province about five/six years ago.

He will add the numbers to the City's expenditures for repaving and try to impress the uninitiated with the impressive dollar total!

In the meantime it is still crunch, rattle and roll through the usual stretches of patched up and glued together excuses for streets!

However, there will be no problem finding money for yet another mega project: A Performing Arts Center!

I just know it.

Posted by: metalman on July 19 2007 10:40 AM

OH GOOD! instead of fixing the roads (or building them properly in the first instance, i.e. a good base, drainage...) we scratch the surface and smooth off the top. Nice to drive on. By next summer, the potholes will be starting to come back. In less than two years the roads they resurfaced will be back in the same condition. Not the fault of those doing the work is it? I blame shortsighted politicians (oops, an oxymoron) Whilst I am astride this particular soapbox, let me mention again the folly of stop and go traffic at major intersections, exacerbated by heavy truck traffic. The truckers have no choice, they have to move their cargo around on the same routes as all the other traffic. If they had alternate routes they would use them.
I ask you; do we, the collective great unwashed majority really have to elect people who have no vision? Can we maybe think further ahead?
metalman.

Posted by: diplomat on July 19 2007 1:23 PM

"I ask you; do we, the collective great unwashed majority really have to elect people who have no vision?"

We don't have to, but we do/did! There was a whole slate of new eager faces running for councilors and there was an alternative choice for mayor.

We ignored all those except for Munoz and opted for the already well known names, including the mayor's position.

It'll probably happen again...

Posted by: Harbinger on July 19 2007 4:56 PM

And we also have a guy on council who can't comprehend percentages. Ain't that cool?