Councillor Niesh looks for "Pothole Protocol" as City's streets continue to see infrastructure work

Frederick Street on the city's east side is just one of a number of
 recent civic works projects that require some gravel maintenance over the
former excavation site

For Prince Rupert motorists swerving around and bouncing over city streets that at time resemble off road trails, Councillor Wade Niesh is hearing of your pain.

At Monday night's Council session, the Councillor made note of the growing volume of civic road work taking place owing to the infrastructure themes and waterline breaks around the community. 

With Mr. Niesh looking for some after care for those areas that have been dug up in the past and now see heavy traffic making quick work of the gravel atop those past excavations.

"One thing that has been brought to my attention and I've noticed it myself as well, I think in this time of ripping up many streets in our town we're going to have to stay on top of making sure that the gravel potholes are filled in these big excavations.

Third Avenue by the Police station there, you know has had some pretty terrible potholes in it for an extended period time. 

So I'm hoping that our staff can maybe be a little bit more on top of filling these gravel potholes because it's going to probably be like that for the next four years,  so we may have to maybe come up with a better protocol on that one"

Kootenay Avenue and the Dog Park adjacent to it will seemingly remain
closed for a while yet as work continues in the area

Residents of the Kootenay area have a larger concern than potholes, that being the closure of that access to the McKay street residences, as well as the Dog Park located there.

And for both residents and dog owners, the news is not positive at the moment as to a reopening. 

With Corporate Administrator Rosa Miller advising Councillor Gurvinder Randhawa that the work will be ongoing for a while yet; with no firm timeline towards a reopening of the road or the Dog Park.

"There  is a significant amount of development going on in that area right now which is resulting in the closure, so it is something we would have to look at and get back to you on, but it won't be soon"

The Pothole discussion gets its time in the spotlight at the eight minute mark of Monday's council session video archive, the Kootenay concerns come up at the thirty minute mark.

More notes from the Monday Council Session can be reviewed here.

A wider overview of Operations Department themes can be explored here.