Same old - Same old

Well it's that time of the year again: Floods and washed out roads. It seems to me that if you have a problem EVERY year in the same spot that you fix the problem.






If you look back in past posts you will find a similar picture. Now what is wrong with this. Well for starters it's a safety hazard. Secondly it is a money problem. The money problem might not be the case because all it takes for this to be temporarily fixed is a load of gravel and some signs. You will notice no signs when the picture was taken but they did appear later in the day. I might add that this situation started 4 days earlier (safety hazard).







I talked to a highways employee to ask why it had not been signed. I was told that they had run out of signs because they need so many on other roads. They had to drive to Williams Lake to get
some more???????










Now this particular problem can be fixed. The problem I see is that it would cost more money in one year to do it right then they are willing to spend on it. If you ignor the problem, spend as little money each year only when it is brought to the attention of the government, then you will not have to spend much money each year. Has anyone tallied up the cost over the years.









You can see in this picture a couple of culverts. The interesting thing here is that there is not that much water flowing through them. I wonder why. Back to the preventive maintenance problem I have spoken about earlier. Clean out the culverts in the fall and guess what. You just might have fewer problems in the spring.












I have to wonder when the amount of money spent on proper maintenance to our roads out weighs the safety of the travelling public! I narrowly missed this travelling along this road late one night. If I had hit it what level of damage would my vehicle have sustained? What level of injuries would I have received?

Again just the same old, same old, in the continuing saga of poor road maintenance in the Horsefly area.

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