This whole exercise is just plain stupid. Its all a rouse to get senior government infrastructure dollars spent in the downtown and for the airport industrial park and calling that a dangerous goods route to get the funding.

What this strategy of the city does is it kills a real dangerous goods route for PG for at least a couple of generations because its not every other year that senior governments would look at building new dangerous goods routes. This route will shape this city for the next 20-years more than any other thing from forestry to the university due to the fact that industry needs to locate near these types of routes and thus it will shape whether industry locates downtown further polluting the bowl or it locates in an appropriate location.

The most important thing to remember is the only options the city is looking at is the options that are including inside the city limits, because the city feels the world does not exist outside the city limits or something. Maybe they only have city maps? The city wants the city to pay for the dangerous goods route and does not want the provincial and federal governments to pay 100% as they should if it was located outside the city limits as it should be.

The city wants to subsidize their airport industrial park hidden agenda with the infrastructure needed for that as well as their Patricia Blvd downtown dangerous goods build out. they want those projects to be funded under the umbrella of a dangerous goods route and will adjust and fudge things in the conceptual stage like the Boundry road to no bridge, and the River road connector to the McMillin Creek headwaters so as to make lines on a map fit with their real agenda. It all has nothing to do with a dangerous goods route.

They will regulate to make it look like they have done something about dangerous goods to compensate for their lack of real planning.

This report is disingenuous to this point in time and is nothing more than a political hoodwink designed to say they listened to the tax payer. In the end we will not have a real dangerous goods route, we will not have access to industrial lands outside the city air-shed, and we will still have 15 traffic lights for through traffic going through town centre. 20-years from now we will equate it with locating the pulp mills and oil refinery across the river from the downtown.

Maybe they will prove me wrong, but as it looks that is not the case with the maps they are drawing up.

What they are building is a Niagara Fall of momentum that will take decades to fix once their proposed routes are established and industry starts to locate or not locate over the years.

Handling that stuff is only as safe as the driver is. The DG route just makes people feel better is all. Deliverys around town go from point A to point B, otherwise it isn't being transported.

The better question would be is where should the gas stations and swimming pools be moved to?

Otherwise soccer moms doing 95kph with a cell phone glued to her ear while hollering at her brats will never be safe in this town. I was following one yesterday and the rear view mirror was still pointing at her face after applying the make up. I couldn't get my camera out fastest enough to get a picture before she was out of sight on Victoria Street!

The way PG and surrounding areas are laid out is not good for a safe dangerous goods route no matter where it goes.
To much industry interspersed with residential. All that can be done is to lessen the amount of environmental damage and how many people will die from an event, by routing this dangerous stuff through the most sparsely populated areas.
However for dangerous goods that are just passing through town there needs to be by-pass routes well away from residential areas and anywhere large groups of people congregate. I see one of the proposed new routes south of town is running right through backyards of those living in the College Hgts area. But because we all cherish the almighty buck so badly this will probably never happen. Why? Because everyone passing through will use these by-passes and not stop here and spend their money. We can't let them coming through here without leaving there money now can we.

Should have inserted this comment as a note, sorry.

Note:(I see one of the proposed new routes south of town is running right through backyards of those living in the College Hgts area).

re:Note:(I see one of the proposed new routes south of town is running right through backyards of those living in the College Hgts area).

I'd rather see a new by pass in that area
than have to put up with snowmobilers, dirt bikers and four wheelers who abuse the area and the residents. If it puts a stop to them, then I'm all for it.

You certainly have a good point there Girl.
I don't understand why the people that live there don't get together and put an end to it. I'm 4-5 blocks from the end of Domano and the racket is very annoying. I am a snowmobiler, dirt biker and all the rest however I respect others rights to peace and quiet around their homes. All it takes is for those that ride in the area to be quiet while in the staging areas. But no they have to race up and down right behind peoples homes. Why they have no respect for others is beyond me.
Any complaints to the city regarding our noise bylaws will fall on deaf ears trust me on that one.
Any new by-pass should be out near the tree research station not so close to residential areas

"We want to hear what people have to say about these candidate routes, we want them to give us the direction we need” says Stanker."
I agree with Eagleone who says "This report is disingenuous to this point in time and is nothing more than a political hoodwink designed to say they listened to the tax payer. In the end we will not have a real dangerous goods route,. . ."
Ususal old usual old political ploy. What should be we do about it Eagleone? Human Rights Commission, United Nations might be a start.

"What should be we do about it Eagleone?"


How about complete their survey?

That goes without saying tinyapplecork.