Tuesday, March 16, 2010
Daily underpass closure extended
Friday, 14 November 2008 - 2:14pm
Operations and Facilities manager Doug Brown said this morning that this hopefully is the last extension and the road will be back open to two lanes of traffic next Wednesday (Nov. 19).
It initially was hoped both lanes would be open by this Sunday (Nov. 16).
Staff
The daily shutdown schedule for work on the Portage Avenue underpass has been extended to Tuesday, Nov. 18 at 5 p.m.
This means both lanes of traffic through the underpass will continue to be fully closed from 9 a.m.-5 p.m. each day until then.
It initially was hoped both lanes would be open by this Sunday (Nov. 16).







The Underpass
I have lived in the noth end all my life, in fact I am older than the over pass by 1 year, it has been an integral part of the lives of north enders. Not only do we utilize it by walking under it but also drive under it; so what has happened in the last 2 years is that hole there is the laughing stock of northenders as well as the frustration of a lot of us, I believe it would've been better from day 1 to just fill that hole with the type of aggreates that would take the weight of the many types of them that go down it every day & build an overpass-most people would say there wouldn't be enough room for it, well in T.Bay they have a couple of overpasses(east end entrance)so I know it can be done. Now we have a town engineer who is eating crow & should be fired for this fiasco as well as the genral contactor who was awarded this contract, it is obvious he had not engaged in this type of construction & has delayed this this project for another year which would make it 3 years, I don't think us north enders can endure a 4th year, heads should roll over this latest town blunder, instead of thinking that they could do such a monumentous task they should've consulted the public in a plebiscite as it has now become a laughing stock of this fine town. Soil sampling should have been done right off the hop instead of experiencin soil failure in the form of liquidization. I wonder if the mayor realizes that every time we have to drive from Christie Ave., N. all around to Frog Creek Rd. then up it until we hit the Hwy. & then go do our business & then repeat it as we go back home how much extra we have to pay in gasoline or if an emergency should arise & someones life is at stake, by the time someone shows up at the Victoris St. crossing that person could be gone already, I know if it was my Mother or Father I would sue this town back into the dark ages. So when the contractor starts up in the spring again & all of a sudden says we may have to do another season here than him & the engineer should be fired & the whole filled in & then get a reliable contractor to come in & put an overpass over the whole failure & I bet I am not the only one here who feels the same.
Sincerely yours,
Perry M. Nastiuk
Forestry Technician