Paving Project Will Remove Ruts on Highways 16 and 97

Thursday, June 05, 2008 10:15 AM

PRINCE GEORGE - With a bid of almost $4.4 million, Pittman Asphalt has been awarded a contract to rehabilitate sections of Highway 16 and Highway 97.

Pittman Asphalt, a Division of YCS Holdings Ltd. and located in Prince George, won the contract with a bid of $4,397,146. The work is expected to start in mid June and the paving is to be completed in August 2008.

The first area is located on Highway 16 and includes 3.9 kilometres from the Southridge Overpass to the Highway 97 intersection. The rehabilitation work will include replacing the existing asphalt with an equivalent thickness of new asphalt. From the overpass to the top of Peden Hill, the road will be milled within the travelled lanes and the left turn slots while Peden Hill to Highway 97 will be milled full width and include shoulders.

The second area includes the intersections on Highway 97 between Highway 16 and the John Hart Bridge. The intersections will be milled to remove ruts and the asphalt will be replaced with a rut resistant asphalt mix.
The work will address rutting within the travelled portion of Highway 97 through the intersections.

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Posted by: wavoes on June 5 2008 3:50 PM

any warranty for that $4.4 million...wure would be nice if someone was held responsible for pavig not lasting longer than a year

Posted by: paladin on June 5 2008 4:01 PM

my thots exactly. Stop the bandaid treatment and give us some real roads. After all this is the north. And what about that scrawny crooked thing on Chief Lake between Foothills and Inglewood (? I think its called) How many have to go off in that section in the winter to get their attention. They put on some asphalt but for goodness sakes widen those shoulders! What with all the logging trucks coming at us.

Posted by: beesknees on June 5 2008 4:28 PM

This is the price thats paid by the individuals like us, that live here in Canada's last frontier, THE NORTH! Temperature plays a large role in how long an asphaltic surface will perform properly. And as we all know, it can get cold here, warm up, get really cold again, and warm up....

Asphalt (and the base it's placed on) will not perform here, as nicely as it does in the tropical temperatures our neighbours to the south enjoy, ie anything below, oh, Kamloops, lets say.

Its not a problem that only we deal with (any cold climate anywhere in the world has the same problems), and our public servants are doing the necessary things that have to be done, to allow us to drive our little chariots here and there, to Tim Horton's or the DQ, for example, without spilling the liquid in our cups.

Posted by: BC Mary on June 5 2008 8:58 PM

The news story says:

" ... From the overpass to the top of Peden Hill, the road will be milled within the travelled lanes and the left turn slots while Peden Hill to Highway 97 will be milled full width and include shoulders ... etc."

What does it mean, "milled" ... ?

I hope it means some sort of contraption which flattens out the big deep ruts left by the big trucks.

On the other hand, what's the fun of driving on a flat highway when you can fishtail and swoop and dance the light fantastic on those very special mornings when Hwy 16 turns to smooth white deeply rutted porcelain.

Btw, now that the ice has released the Nechako River, and the flooding is done with, what's next?

Posted by: govsux on June 6 2008 8:33 AM

Hey Beesknees, I call BS. The climate doesn't immediately change at the Alberta, Montana, Washington, or Idaho border. But the quality of the roads sure do. I also have friends from Scandanvia who say their roads are much better with similar temp extremes.
Do you work for the Ministry of Highways or something?
It's called engineering and maintenance.

Posted by: beesknees on June 7 2008 7:01 AM

Hey there, cousin govsux, a quick search with Google, using a few different keywords like "asphalt potholes U.S. Scandinavia" or choose your own, and you'll see a few stories of the problems our friends in those far-flung countries have with the same road surface we have right here in dear old PG.

No, I don't work for the MOH, but my hat goes off to the engineers that work for them, and have a hand in designing and delivering some of the nicest roads in Canada (in the most difficult geography), to us lucky people living in B.C.

Posted by: govsux on June 7 2008 8:57 AM

did the google thing, don't know what you found. I saw a bunch of pothole repair sites and some sites about driving in Cuba?????
don't know about the info superhighway but I know if you actually drive real highways across the borders I mentioned in my first post you can notice the difference.
Cheers