Who will block these biodegradable roads that carry bring resources and unmasked motorists?:
With the weather bomb of 2021, B.C.’s fabled road engineers face a new challenge: how to rebuild the province’s paralyzed highway network quickly enough to reanimate an immobilized province and robustly enough to avoid perils of climate change.
“This has to be a real wake-up call to road engineering departments,” said Daman Grewal, senior operations manager for Centurion Trucking, whose fleet of 60 trucks was diverting through the United States as of Thursday to carry goods between Vancouver and Alberta, doubling the usual travel time. “We’ll see some bandage fixes coming up. But they need to re-evaluate and be prepared for the next big event.”
As of Friday, the province’s four major highways extending north and east from Vancouver and the rest of the Lower Mainland remained closed, knocking out vital supply lines between the coast and Interior.
They’re opening back up slowly, but a full recovery won’t take place until next year.
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British Columbia residents can cross into the United States to buy fuel and other essential supplies without having to present a negative COVID-19 test to re-enter Canada.
Catastrophic flooding has cut off fuel shipments to swaths of the province, prompting B.C. to order rationing of gasoline. Some food supplies are also running short.
Mike Farnworth, B.C. Public Safety Minister, told reporters on Saturday that he had asked Bill Blair, the federal Emergency Preparedness Minister, to accelerate the move to waive as of Nov. 30 tests for Canadians visiting the United States for fewer than 72 hours.
Ottawa won’t make a formal change to that deadline, but the federal government has now made it clear that exemptions built into current travel restrictions do allow for cross-border travel if the purpose is to purchase necessities such as fuel, food or medicine.
Oh, people have less respect for a lot of people.
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