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City road work season arrives By Josh Massey with spring firmly here, so is the city’s road building season. Here’s a look at what residents can expect as spring turns into summer.
Major projects THERE’S going to be a major overhaul, including water service and storm drainage, subsurface and surface on Park Ave. west of Kenney leading toward the back end of Canadian Tire. Work is to start this week, finishing midJuly at a cost of $510,000 plus $164,000 for the water work. McConnell between Eby and Sparks is also up for a major overhaul. There’s no set start date but the city has set aside $600,000 for the road portion, plus $160,000 for the water service portion.
Smaller ones A NUMBER of “pulverize and pave” projects, four in north Terrace and three in south Terrace, are to occur. The list includes repaving of Eby from Olson to McConnell. Preliminary work starts next week with a completion date of early June at a cost of $196,000. Tuck from Eby to Sparks is to be repaved with work also to start next week with an early June completion date. Cost: $113,000. Kenney from Graham to Keith is to be repaved. Work is to start as early as this month with an early June completion. Cost: $287,000. Molitor from Graham to Keith is to be repaved. Preliminary work to start this
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week with an early June completion. Cost: $224,000 Eby from Haugland to Keith is to be repaved. Preliminary work has started aimed at an early June completion. Cost: $113,000. On the books but with no starting dates or costs is the repaving of Skeenaview Drive and the repaving of Lanfear Hill.
Finishing up TWO projects from last year are to be completed. Davis at a cost of $2,500 and Scott at a cost of $25,000.
Safer crossing a new traffic light system is to be installed at the pedestrian crossing on Kalum Ave. in front of the Willows Apartment building. A start and completion date has yet to be set. Cost: $60,000. This light will be controlled by those wishing to cross the street.
Two wheeling the kenney from Graham to Keith repaving project will be accompanied by new bike lanes. The estimated completion date is early June. It’ll be financed by a $41,000 provincial grant and matched by the city. Bike lanes are to be 1.5 metres wide, a standard now set by the province. City public works director Rob Schibli said the repaving and the bike lane work will take place at the same time. The list of projects this year reflects the city’s goals set out in a five-year work plan, he said.
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Pathway to be lengthened The Grand Trunk Pathway, popularly referred to as the millennium trail, will be lengthened by 830 metres (just over 900 yards) westward toward Frank St. this summer if all goes as planned. The city has dubbed this extension The Grand View Walk because the view gets especially fresh along the new strip, said city development services director David Block. The three-metre wide paved pathway will extend from the trail’s western end which is now right across the road from the Hwy16 and Kalum Lake Road/Hwy 113 junction. The extension will take the pathway net-
work west, ending just shy of the CN level crossing at Frank St. The total cost of the extension is $286,300 with $153,500 of that coming directly from a provincial grant. Block said that a combined $30,000 in the form of grants from BC Hydro and CN means the city will be able to pretty up the sides of the path, though not to the same degree as the existing route. The landscape style will be more rugged, Block said, less manicured, favouring a seeded lawn and taller trees instead of ornamental shrubs.
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Josh Massey PHOTO
■■ Farmers market blooms Plant seller Judy Lacey (left) completes a transaction with happy customer Elisa Bomben at the first day of the Skeena Valley Farmers Market on May 4. With the temperatures pushing 20 degrees residents flooded down to George Little Memorial Park to soak in the sun, listen to music and speak with friends and neighbours while purchasing goods from local sellers and buying food from various vendors.
High notes
Helmet to helmet
Bronze buddies
Caledonia’s band and choir return from Seattle with trophies \COMMUNITY A19
Terrace and Smithers mayors sign on for bike to work week battle \NEWS A12
The new Northern Fusion girls volleyball team already has a medal \SPORTS A30