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Horrible grid road, cannot drive down it with a car. There are ruts two feet deep or more. Norma Sheldon the new reeve for the last 2 years has DONE nothing to get this road into condition to drive on. She hides and will NOT answer phone calls. The RM 461 are hiding behind the phones, no one will answer calls. Shameful, this is a bus route, main grid, residents vehicles are getting damaged to due the road conditions. There are NO excuses for a road to be in this condition. FIX IT.
18 Comments
concerned traveler (Guest)
Ali Woolf (Guest)
Jason (Guest)
Yikes! (Guest)
concerned traveler (Guest)
Mr Hermiteowitch (Registered User)
halfacres (Guest)
I live on the Fenton grid and have observed a loaded semi and 2 loaded grain trucks driving on the grid during the last rainstorm and the day after it stopped while road is still saturated. The roads are never going to get any better with idiots like this abusing them.
Today i watched a farmer with his tractor drive through a soft spot on the road right after the grader fixed it. he left ruts so deep I could barely make it through with my pickup. Then the grader had to waste time and go back and try to fix it again. How can they make any headway with morons like this on the road?
NASTY (Guest)
Get a truck!! (Guest)
concerned traveler (Guest)
crazygnome (Guest)
TJ (Registered User)
And yes after a rain they get a little sloppy but when you live in the country you understand that but consider what the city folks pay in taxes for the pothloes they put up with? I'll live with a little slop and if it gets bad I'll go out and fix it myself (on out road we don't always wait for the grader, he's busy and we have the eqipment to do the job).
NASTY (Guest)
Jack (Guest)
Secondly, one person commented that the current reeve has done an extraordinary job, if that is true how do you define a bad job? Because if such a good job is being done it sure does not seem to include the RM's number one responsibity of maintaning a healthy road system.
Thirdly we all know full well that the current reeve did not run for office because of roads!!!!!!!! We could not of all forgot the real motivation already could we?
operator's wife (Guest)
area resident (Guest)
The people in this community are generally easy going, compassionate, and very neighborly. However, there is nothing saying that we are not frustrated as well! Jack has made some very good points, as had the grader operator's wife. We know our operators, and don't doubt that they have good intentions. When they are told to "patch" a road instead of "fix", that is what creates the problem.(Well, my belief is that the problems started when all the gravel trucks were hauling on it when the highway was being twinned.) This road had many flagged danger zones last year, and was never fixed properly. To date it has only worsened. The point is if these spots had been repaired properly there wouldn't be the concern and complaints you see here.
We are not idiots, nor unreasonable. We pay our taxes. It doesn't take a rocket scientist to know that when you ignore a problem of any kind, it will only worsen. If you don't have the skills or necessary knowledge of your job - get them! You have been either hired or elected, and you are ultimately responsible. Someone is going to be badly hurt, or killed because of these roads, and then it will be too late!
Jeff (Guest)
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NASTY (Guest)