General Road and Highway Discussion

[panamaniac]

One would think big changes might wait until the road needs rebuilding,  which would be 20 or 30 years down the road, no?

Try 3-5 years. But first, why should we wait that long, we should make changes to fix the road now, right now it divides my neighbourhood and endangers me when I want to cross.

But also, the region has proven that they won't make changes even when there is a big rebuild...our region is just generally incompetent and needs to be dragged kicking and screaming into good policy.

I'd have worse things to say, but sadly I've been watching what the province has been doing for the past year, so they don't look so bad by comparison.

3-5 would be great, although I thought rebuilds happened after about 70 years or so (Benton was widened in the mid-60s, iirc).  What they must avoid is spending money on cosmetic changes that are going to be torn up when they get to rebuild time.