Local Flooding

[sasqman]

Ya I don't think any route is going to open to non essential traffic anytime soon. Need to keep our products shipping in/out of the province/country.

 

[Whitebuck]

Rail movement by CP and CN is a trickle at best.
Barely any movement still through the canyon.

 

[Ringo]

Rail movement by CP and CN is a trickle at best.
Barely any movement still through the canyon.

Yeah. The port guys are in the panic mode. There’s barely any movement and it could be another couple of weeks for CN or CP to get back on a planned schedule.

 

[wildmanyeah]

Have a friend who’s working on the repairs for highway 5 the coq.

they used thousands of lock blocks for the bridge abutments, shortened the spans, back filled, put on the bridge decks on the lock blocks. Paving the bridge approaches starts this Sunday.

dec 17 is the deadline for all the paving to be completed.

 

[casper5280]

This guy posts videos everyday of the work being done

 

[Corey_lax]

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[casper5280]

 

[sly_karma]

Amazing efforts to get the Coq usable by the end of this month. Poor old Hope Princeton needs a break, not that it will get one.

 

[IronNoggin]

Coquihalla Highway reopening to regular traffic between Hope and Merritt​

Ministry of Transportation says motorists will be allowed Wednesday

https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/british-columbia/bc-highway-update-1.6319192

 

[sly_karma]

Impressive work. Poor old Hope Princeton can take a breather now. I guess springtime before they can repair the damage it took from the unaccustomed traffic.

 

[agentaqua]

What Do We Do About River Floods? 8 | Uytae Lee's Stories About Here | CBC Gem

Uytae Lee explores the issues in our neighbourhoods that affect our daily lives. In each episode, he investigates local challenges like the lack of public washrooms, transit accessibility and housing.

gem.cbc.ca

 

[Bryan Allen]

Good in theory...But...................

 

[agentaqua]

Building on river floodplains has proven costly and devastating to Canadians. A new Globe analysis reveals which cities are most at risk

Flooding has condemned some cities to painful cycles of loss and rebuilding. Although multiple levels of government seek to restrict further development on floodplains, some cities continue to allow it

www.theglobeandmail.com

 

[Bryan Allen]

Depressing ain't it ? and I love this statement from the article .. "Additional public funds are sometimes spent on massive flood protection works to protect vulnerable neighbourhoods after the fact. " And who pays ??