Scarred highway irks Tories
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Hey there, time traveller!
This article was published 29/12/2011 (5354 days ago), so information in it may no longer be current.
A patch of Trans-Canada Highway between Virden and Oak Lake was apparently deliberately scarred by the provincial government as a way to make the roadway less slippery.
“I’ve never seen that done anywhere else,” Arthur-Virden Progressive Conservative MLA Larry Maguire said. “It’s on both sides of the highway. I think they did it on the curves to prepare for ice. There doesn’t seem to be a set pattern to it. You’d have to ask MIT why they did it because I’ve never seen that done before. There is quite a distance to it.
“I drive that stretch of highway all the time and it’s been like that for months.”
A Manitoba Infrastructure and Transportation spokesman said the department is aware of a “pavement surface issue.” Instead, the pavement was roughed up because the surface, which locals say was completed within the last two years, was reported as slippery in wet weather.
The spokesman said a contractor was hired to grind or mill the paved surface to improve traction over the winter months. Further pavement repairs will take place in the spring, likely May or June, as a permanent fix is impossible in winter months.
There had been rumours that the pavement was damaged by a machine, though the MIT spokesman said that was not the case. He added the highway is in “reasonable driving condition.”
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