I sure hope this is the final study as UNBC did a lot of research into this and presented great ideas to city officials and some council members. The fire dept. and RCMP would love PG to meet the standards every other city has for a proper DG route. Time to take action before something devestating occurs in the city neighbourhoods.

Yay!!!! Let's wrap this one up soon! Implement the route by September so kids don't have to attend school near a DG truck! Improvements and additions (like new roads) can be progressive with a fixed end date. Man, it is about time!
NO MORE TRUCKS IN RESIDENTIAL! yippee!

"I sure hope this is the final study as UNBC did a lot of research into this and presented great ideas to city officials and some council members"

I do not think that the idea of sending dangerous goods down what is a residential arterial set of roads - Tyner Blvd - University Way - Foothills Blvd - Chief Lake road - which is virtually 95% residential and never meant to be even a truck route, and is not currently a truck route, is a great idea. In fact, it is a lousy idea which would be shot down by 80%+ of the planning community.

Your right Owl. It feels weird saying that though...

Anyways, I'd love to go to this meeting, but my time is tight and I'll likely be working, but... I think it is far more important a meeting like this should be for the people who do not want dangerous goods in their neighborhood to speak up. These are the people who should be aware that if you live on Queensway, 5th, possibly Foothills, Peden Hill, or even the Hart Highway that you show up to say that is not where we should have a dangerous goods route. Its very important for those people IMO.

Me... I support a dangerous goods route, so I see no real need to show up for a meeting like this. A dangerous goods route should be built on its merits and I'm confident that any capable planner would be well aware of its merits, if not they should be replace ASAP.

The important points IMO are dangerous goods routes are expensive, so you plan long term, and thus the decision should include long term airshed issues as it relates to long term industrial site locations.

Problem is we don't yet have our long term industrial site locations for airshed concerns selected... so how then can we plan a dangerous goods route? That part puzzles me.

Another important point is that PG requires better more efficient transportation infrastructure that can bi-pass the 2-dozen stop lights that the highway traffic funnels through. Any dangerous goods route IMO should also be the ring road on the east and south sides of the city.

The way I see it NCP may very well require a whole new site to re-build on for ease of environmental considerations any new plant would be required to meet. Out in the PG Saw, Northwood Pulp, Shelly area would make the most sense for airshed as well as company horizontal logistics.

Winton Global will likely make their planner property parkland just to spite the city tax collectors as payback for the mud road... if not CN Rail will want to buy it out for there needs.

Chances are very likely Winton Global will relocate the planner mill (insurance?) either to their Bear Lake Saw Mill location (less taxes)... or could they be persuaded by the regional district with federal and provincial green lands (recovery of industrial lands for parkland) program to participate in relocating to a proposed industrial park with NCP northeast of the city acting as anchors that could enable the justification for the senior levels of government to make immediate investments in local infrastructure to facilitate that type of new industrial growth (while filling a short term employment gap) with lots of room for future bio-energy, MDF, and other such forestry intensive mills to find a home.

Build the industrial park for NCP and Winton Global and future growth Northwest of the city where the wind blows and service this new industrial site with a new two lane ring road highway east and south of town from Salmon Valley to Red Rock to Beaverly. That IMO is PG's future and the time for talk is long over for all the mill workers now unemployed looking for work.

The key failures for something like this working towards a positive economic as well as environmental future for PG would be the three local liberal MLA's and the two local conservative MP's, because they are the ones with the funds that should be paying for this kind of infrastructure (rather than their pensions) to enable PG to continue to be an economic engine paying far more in taxes then we ever can hope to receive back in investment by those levels of government. They all seem to be silent and more interested in talking about things foreign such as they talk about in Ottawa or Victoria that seem alien to me.

Time Will Tell

That should have been ....

"Build the industrial park for NCP and Winton Global and future growth 'NorthEast' of the city....

Glad to see some movement of this.
It should have been done years ago, and as so many previous posters have said,sending dangerous cargo through residential areas is not only a HUGE mistake,it is just plain stupid!
A new and safer route may very well lead to a number of business re-locating outside the downtown core as time goes on, and that is not a bad thing at all!