"...the request for $135 thousand for measures to improve the City’s Air Quality ..." would be better spent on dust control, than hiring another civil servant.

The civil servant load on the taxpayers never seems to decline, just gets bigger, another mouth to feed forever.

The city of Prince George is the lighted intersection capital of Canada. The traffic lights are ridiculous in some places. One car pulls up and four highway tractors have to quickly stop.

The technology at the approaches to the old Cameron Street Bridge warn trucks of a high load, so why can't that exact same technology not be used along the truck routes at certain times of the day to ensure the lights hold green for industrial through traffic on the highway and the car can wait another 10 seconds to get their green light? Will someone have to be killed from rear-ending a highway tractor trailer unit at one of these quick spike red lights? Maybe we can get a carbon credit for controlling the lights while improving the competitiveness of our overall economic base? Maybe the air we breath will be that much cleaner in real measurable terms?

How much would it cost $10,000… maybe $50,000 if hypothetically we contracted a friend of the mayors to do the work just to get it done? I don't know for sure, but if it costs less then a million dollars then I'm sure it makes more sense then a right of way for the hood to cross under highway 16 at the slough just so they don't have to be bothered by lighted intersections. Who pays the bills around here anyways the hoodlums hiding out in their fancy new tunnel; or the industrial traffic that tries to get through the nations most intersectional municipal highway thoroughfare?

There is even a better solution then changing the configuration on traffic signals and that would be to take them out alltogether. There is alraedy a partial interchange at Massey and Central. Complete it as a full interchange and eliminate all other traffic signals. This should apply to all hmmain routes through the city and truck routes need to be designated and delt with accordingly.

This is after all is part of a provincial highway system not a route for convenience shopping. If we are a big City lets operate like a big City. The problem me is we like to think big and act small. And I will say ir again it only takes ten minutes to get across town and twenty minutes from Foothills to the airport.

Cheers

Interesting points Eagleone but I would like to open the discussion on pedestrians. Why should a pedestrian be allowed to walk up to the corner of a block and all traffic is expected to stop, even though there is a break in traffic coming that the pedestrian can easily cross at that time. I think that is one law that needs to be re-thought in this day and age of being green, etc.
When I walk and need to cross the street I try to either time it with a break in traffic or turn away from the corner to let traffic past and then go when there is a break. I feel guilty getting traffic to stop just so I can walk in front on them !

I share your pain though, as I try and drive through downtown PG, in the middle of the night, and the stupid traffic lights turn to red, to let no one go through, but the timer says it is time to change.

Highway underpasses at most of the bypass intersections would work very well.

If on Highway 16 near Domano, why can't they install a warning light about the intersection signal change when coming up Peden Hill? Maybe it might slow traffic. They have one adjacent to Timmies when traffic is coming from the west. Instead of having the RCMP handing out tickets on top of Peden Hill many times a week, the cops could be looking for and closing more crack shacks. But then again, crack shacks aren't money making ventures fer the cops or city hall. Are they? I was told that the cops outside the Rollerdome make more money handing out tickets than anywhere else in the city. Eh, wot?