Prince George is in the middle of a summer paving push as eight operations to rehabilitate local roads began last week.
This week, crews are beginning to repave multiple milled sections of road – including on Fifth Avenue between Johnson Street and Douglas Street and a section of Fifth Avenue between Voyageur Avenue and Ospika Boulevard.
The city says preparatory and milling operations have also started this week on a significant section of road just south of Connaught Hill which will see operations on Connaught Drive between Juniper Street and 17th Avenue.
Many streets near and adjacent to Connaught Drive will also undergo rehabilitation including parts of Juniper, Kenwood, Larch, Norwood, Oak, Pine, and 16th Avenue.
The city adds that the northbound lanes of Ospika Boulevard between Davis Road and Range Road were milled earlier today, and are scheduled for repaving in the next few days.
This year, the city says it will be resurfacing about 43 lane kilometres of road and rehabilitating about 1.3 kilometres of sidewalk. In total, there will be 38 road-resurfacing projects, and five sidewalk projects in the 2021 paving season.
Other repaving operations are about to commence on multiple sections of recently milled road including:
- North Nechako Road and the Fortis substation 1.4 km to the north of the intersection
- Douglas Street from 5th Avenue to 2nd Avenue
- Ewert Street from 5th Avenue to 2nd Avenue
- Freeman Street from 5th Avenue to 2nd Avenue
- Renwick Crescent from Melville Avenue to Winnipeg Street
The city says paving operations were recently completed on the Cameron Street Roundabout and on River Road from the Cameron Street overpass to the Cameron Street Bridge.
Sidewalk repaving operations are also expected to start up again later this month.
The city is also reminding motorists to use alternate routes when possible to avoid traffic congestion in the area of paving operations and to drive cautiously whenever around road crews.
