City announces start of 2022 Paving Program for Prince Rupert streets

The City of Prince Rupert has fired up the Paving Bat Signal, indicating the start of the 2022 Paving program, the notes on the work ahead relayed through their social media stream today.

The City observing that the paving starts within the next two weeks and will continue through the summer.

As we outlined on June 29th, the paving contract work for 2022 has been awarded to Adventure Paving and the list provided today by the City's Communication office shows no change to that presented to Council in June.

The roads to receive some new blacktop in Prince Rupert as
part of the 2022 Paving program

Earlier last month, the City's CFO Corinne Bomben cautioned that there could be some impact on the paving program owing to rising costs of oil and gas.

"As mentioned above, increases in oil will have impacts on the City's paving program and will likely result in less linear paving, extremely poor condition areas are the focus given the current limitations" -- CFO Corinne Bomben speaking at the June 13th Council session on the impact of oil prices on the city's road plans for 2022

However,  the list as presented today seems to indicate all current projects remain on the to do list.

Today's update does come with a caveat related to weather conditions and how our somewhat hard to predict weather systems may impact on the schedule ahead.

The city does however, take advantage of the update to note of the municipal app and how updates on road paving diversions and other notes for travellers could be as close as a swipe on your phone or other devices.

You can download that app here.

More notes on the city's challenges with roads and other infrastructure can be explored from our Civic Operations archive.