North Okanagan residents left with unsafe road conditions – Okanagan | 24CA News
The mixture of snow and ice on some North Okanagan roads is inflicting main points and for some, they’re having bother even making it house.
Some residents close to Lumby, B.C., are annoyed with the icy circumstances and with what they are saying is an absence of street upkeep.
People who reside alongside Trinity Valley Road are getting more and more aggravated as the way in which as much as their properties hasn’t been simple.
“It’s just ridiculous and they expect us to drive on it,” mentioned Trinity Valley Road resident Garth Cannaday.
“There’s like a foot of hard-packed ice out on the road here because they plow it with the plow truck and they got no down pressure on the blades.”
Residents haven’t seen many snow plows alongside their street previously few weeks and so they say, it’s beginning to turn out to be harmful.
Brodde Baril’s sisters have each ended up within the ditch because of the slippery circumstances.
“Going on the other side of the roads, sometimes you gotta cut a corner and that can be scary sometimes not seeing if there’s a vehicle or not. I try my best not to cut them but you can’t always help it,” mentioned resident Brodde Baril.
Baril additionally raises issues on how emergency autos would have the ability to journey down the street if they don’t seem to be correctly cleared.
The snow clearing alongside Trinity Valley Road is contracted by AIM Roads and so they say higher-priority streets are cleaned first.
“We have all our resources out right now hitting all the side roads and they’re doing them by classification so we’re just trying to get to every road by classification right now,” mentioned Kevin McDonnell, contract supervisor for AIM Roads.
In an announcement to Global News, the Ministry of Transportation and Infrastructure says they repeatedly talk with contractors to watch the efficiency of the upkeep work.
“Where issues are noted, Ministry staff work with the contractor to ensure contributing factors are determined and rectified.”
“The ministry’s maintenance contractors are required to monitor and respond to changing conditions and deploy enough workers, equipment and material to get the job done.”
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Trinity Valley Road residents have taken issues into their very own fingers, clearing the street with their gear however they hope to see adjustments quickly.
“It’s sad, it’s pathetic and I don’t know what’s going on,” mentioned Cannaday.
The ministry encourages anybody with security issues relating to street circumstances to report them to AIM Roads.
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