Sask rural highways a disaster!!!!

[the big wheel]

Would be interesting to know how much maintenance could have been saved if the railways were left running or even expanded carrying out grain

[Crestliner]

I agree the roads in Saskatchewan are absolutely garbage in all corners of the province. I drive about 50,000 kms a year in this province , I keep my truck new and it is disgusting the quality of our roads. Where does all the money from gas tax go? RM’s are running out of gravel. We have a serious issue developing with respect to road infrastructure. We need some serious leadership to sit down and develop a strategy to fix our roads and keep them maintained. It may take a billion dollars or more. We may have to have toll highway like Florida/Texas and hold the politicians responsible to pay for the road and actually not steal the funds. RM’s need to turn scarce gravel into pavement on high density roads. 35 million tonnes of grain and growing, plus the regular population deserves good roads....but it won’t be free.

[fjlip]

It is shocking how worn out, cracked, rough even highways through towns and cities are. Wadena is embarrassing. RR crossings are disgusting. Too few population/votes equals we don't matter. Trump is spending BILLIONS on US highways and their taxes are a fraction of ours, WTF? Or again population?

[farmaholic]

Recognizing people who choose gender re-assignment or sexual orientation different than the equipment they're born with, legalizing pot, sending and spending money outside our borders, allowing closure of viable grain delivery points, hauling unfathomable amounts of gravel to build bypasses and cities, grants to unsustainable irrigation projects, resource royalty give aways and holidays, ad nauseam... have all taken priority over highways.

Decades old infrastructure built to decades old standards won't stand up to modern requirements and demands. And they're behind upgrading to the required new standards, I doubt they'll ever get caught up.

Sad when costs(Labour, equipment and material) become limiting factors to progress.

[bucket]

, allowing closure of viable grain delivery points, , grants to unsustainable irrigation projects, .

I was at a meeting about irrigation in Outlook and they were saying what it provides for economy....


I laughed and said there are no grain elevators or rail shipping points nearby and the highway I just drove in on is absolute garbage.....What are you guys talking about.

At another meeting I asked when the irrigators are going to get off the tit ....their response was they are not on it ....really why is the government involved in every expansion or repair? to the tune of millions of dollars.

[biglentil]

Grind em up and turn em back into gravel.

[Oliver88]

None of the highways were designed for all the semi traffic.we had elevators every 7 miles when roads were built.

Perfect summary.

To add to this, when grid roads were designed for small loads we didn’t have farms travelling 20+ miles to farm a remote half section.