Highway fixes

[bucket]

When they go it fix the highways they can only fill in the grooves created by semi traffic...

Why not just put a new surface on....before the sub grade goes to shit....

Any one else noticed this practice in the province...

[TASFarms]

You should see how snc does highway construction. Very very slow. They don’t put down oil before they pave and they pave right over the weeds. They started in April doing some turning lanes and a couple passing lanes just east of Kindersley. They are taking forever to get anything done.

[GALAXIE500]

That same style of half ass highway fixing has been going on down here in the SW corner for decades!! Nice waste of our tax money as usual.

[seldomseen]

Yes same thing here Bucket. Never ending patching and filling the ruts. Highways are bone jarring!!!

[bucket]

So while they can't fix highways properly for all residents ....how does the province have money for a money pit project like irrigation to benefit 250 farmers?

[Robertbarlage]

Western Canada should run SNC out of here!

[tubs]

in Alberta they make a new hardtop and the first thing they do is put groves in it so you can be on your phone and drive. Absolute stupidity. after a few years that highway is toast. prime example hwy 12 east of Stettler.

[helmsdale]

in Alberta they make a new hardtop and the first thing they do is put groves in it so you can be on your phone and drive. Absolute stupidity. after a few years that highway is toast. prime example hwy 12 east of Stettler.

Hwy 9, youngstown to rochdale... they "recycled" the old asphalt, and laid it back down. Didnt last a year. Its horrid. Surface layer just keeps pushing out right to the gravel base. It's a friggin slalom course!

[oldjim]

If only the NDP had held onto power in Sask instead of that dang ol' Sask Party - we'd have all the paved roads turned back to gravel by now like Romanow started doing. Perhaps if Meili becomes premier they'll gravel the Regina bypass. And close the Children's Hospital in Toontown, you know, like they did the Plains.

[farmaholic]

The amount of heavy truck freight has grown exponentially on thin membrane highways not designed for it.

Are we expecting too much from our highways? One year we had fert delivered from the States in about 24 tonne loads. I suspect interstates are classified heavier haul roads.

Some roads are so poor ,Sask has 8 tonne max limits on stretches of them.....our tandem grain truck empty is 10.

Primary, secondary, 9 month primary, restricted.

Do US States have heavier weight allowances than 24 tonne?