The City of Prince George will provide a letter of support for rebuilding the Quesnel-Hixon Road.
“The Quesnel-Hixon Road is very important for many reasons, the least of which is as al Alternate Route to and from the North when the main route, Highway 97 is shut down for various reasons,” a letter from the Quesnel-Hixon Road Restoration Association states.
At last night’s (Monday) meeting, City Council voted to provide the letter to the Minister of Transportation and Transit.
“Tremendously impactful for the residents, tremendously impactful for the people who use that road, and it simply is no longer there,” said Councillor Garth Frizzell, who chairs Council’s Standing Committee on Intergovernmental Affairs.
“This is a motion that will not cause us harm, and could do some significant good.”
According to the province’s Cariboo Road Recovery Projects webpage, the road has been closed to through traffic since 2021, following a landslide during the 2021 freshet.
Last year, a decision was made to permanently close a 400-metre section of the road and to take the Cottonwood River Canyon Bridge out of service.
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