Pothole patching? You must mean when the city guys dump some sort of compound in the pothole and then a week later we have the same pothole. Our roads are a complete joke. Many, if not all, need to be completely re-paved. But we all know that would cut into the olympic budget. God bless the Liberals. They do so much for us and ask so little. ha ha ha.

yup...same pothole...only BIGGER!

What happened to the money collected specifically for road improvements. 4% I think it was, a couple of years ago? General revenue or did it assist in funding city centre ventures or the mayors adventures?

Giterdun I found your brown pickup! :)

Than 4% was for last year. It was to save the city lots of money instead of borrowing money to do paving of roads. All the changes the city has done over the years was suposed to save money ie: move to 18th ave, RCMP new computers in cars, automated garbage collection, the list goes on, why is there tax increases every year? Total bull sh_t and we keep taking it, lies, lies, and more lies. Who in city hall tells the truth?

WHAT HAPPENED WITH THE 4% TAX INCREASE LAST YEAR FOR ROAD REPAIRS MAYOR KINSLEY, YOU AND YOUR CRONIES ARE A JOKE. ENJOY YOUR LAST TERM AS MAYOR AND MEMBERS OF CITY COUNCIL. PERHAPS BEFORE YOU GO YOU SHOULD ADDRESS THIS QUESTION AND THE MANY OTHERS THE CITIZENS OF PRINCE GEORGE HAVE BEEN ASKING. NO BACKBONE I SUSPECT.

"Many, if not all, need to be completely re-paved. But we all know that would cut into the Olympic budget. God bless the Liberals."

The Liberals did a whole lot of paving just a few years ago: The Hart Highway, the entire By-Pass, etc. The NDP never did anything in ten years, barely managed to paint center lines on the potholed highways...

Everything else is the responsibility of the city.

Blaming everything on the Provincial Government and on the Olympics shifts the blame away from the city - not a good thing to do.

Let's do the right thing in the next municipal election this fall, please!

"Many, if not all, need to be completely re-paved."

Ain't that the truth!

I have lived in many places in both BC and Alberta and I can tell you I have never seen worse roads in my life. They are literally ruining the suspension on my small car. I will have to buy a truck just to get around safely in PG. This piecemeal patching of potholes isn't working anymore, it's time to put some real money into the roads.

Just wait Diplomat until the Olympcs are over then you'll see just how far this province will be in debt. The olympics are so far over budget the carbon tax was introduced. Just wait. Just wait.

The roads are pathetic in this city. I hope someone in charge recognizes this soon and does something about it. I am not going to put any suggestions forward, except maybe the reporter from the lower mainland (who follows this site) should come up and check out what some of the highest municipal taxes get you in PG. Don't even ask about snow removal, my street was plowed 3 times all winter. Pathetic.

acrider54: "Just wait Diplomat until the Olympcs are over then you'll see just how far this province will be in debt."

I hope you are wrong. By the way, I wasn't in favour of hosting the Olympics Games either. However, once they were awarded, it's too late to do anything about it. I'm not going to waste my time griping endlessly about it and blaming every problem under the sun on it.

kitkat: "The roads are pathetic in this city. " And the general lack of safe sidewalks is just as pathetic, in my opinion.

However, there is a wish list of large projects on the books at city hall (Performing Arts Center, new RCMP station, Cameron Street Bridge replacement, and so forth) and nobody seems to be the least bit worried about borrowing all those millions to fund those.

How about first things first? I will feel really proud driving to the new PAC, driving to the new RCMP building, negotiating the new round-about to drive across the new Cameron Street Bridge - dodging hundreds of potholes, thousands of cracks in the roads and lumpy repair patches while hanging on to the steering wheel and listening to my suspension slowly being beaten to death!

The "S" corner on Chief Lake Road has no shoulders, just a deep dangerous ridge running down both sides of it. All winter car after car have caught this ridge and have been thrown into the ditch, luckily no one has been thrown in front a logging truck...YET!

This is a fatality waiting to happen.

This is a very busy road servicing hundreds if not thousands of residents and it is estimated that there is currently a logging truck every 2 minutes on the road.
Make this a priority and get it fixed!!!
I can understand that winter conditions can and will produce potholes...but I can not understand how this stretch was not done properly in the first place. I think residents in the area will agree with me that someone is negligent on this one.