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I've been stuck up skiing at Whistler because of a landslide like this. Oh the tragedy, heh
Oh bite me.
It's high time BC got the same sweetheart handouts that Ontario and Quebec get for their transportation infrastructure.
I would love to get there for the olympics in 10. I had a chance to go the oly's in 88 with the military as a security member. but something else came up. I would like to make in to Vanc in 10.
A few days earlier and there would have been quite a problem with the 40,000 folks at the Pemberton music fest. The trip through the canyon is quite a detour.
It's high time BC got the same sweetheart handouts that Ontario and Quebec get for their transportation infrastructure.
No doubt.
They gave Calgary a boatload for the 88 Olympics (to build the Deerfoot and expand their LRT system), so it would be only fair to do the same for Vancouver.
Long weekend comming up. Maybe time for Ride's illegal cartage and taxi service.
http://www.cbc.ca/canada/british-columb ... ction.html
You can rock bolt something like that but if it's gonna fail it's gonna fail.
And mother nature has a rule for slopes,it's called natural repose,all slopes will eventually erode to a 3 to 1 grade.
Anyone who knows the area shouldn't be surprised. There's no slope there... it's more of an overhang.
People need to remember... while there is another way to the various affected towns, the route is several hours longer and not ideally accessible to bigger trucks. This doesn't just affect commuters and holidayers... it affects the transport of food and other goods (like gas) into the towns.
Probably going to be a "Latte" shortage at the Timmy's.
What did people do before the sea to sky was built?
Mule train?
Boat.
The highway was opened in 1958 (or maybe a year earlier). The train tracks run pretty much alongside the road, so if one is out, they both are. There is still a port there, and an airport, so if someone/thing really needs to get in or out, there are ways, but for most people, it's just the road.
This is exactly why we've been saying for YEARS that the road needs to be upgraded.
Actually... more like decades.
It's not about latte's at Timmy's though. It's about milk.
There isnt an engineer in the world that would guarantee they could make that safe.
The money it would take to rockbolt that wall would be insane and it will fail if mother nature wants it to anyways.
I have some pics of failures that werent supposed to happen,way bigger then that one and preventive measures were taken such as rock bolting and installing extensiometers.
There basically a wire stretched between 2 cracks and hooked to instruments to detect movement.Then wired to send a radio signal if somethings gonna happen.
Like they have on Turtle mountain next to me.
No-one expects a guarantee. Not with this highway, not with any of the proposed alternate routes.
I'm not sure why you're trying to make fun of this... as well as the people who live there.
I'm not,you live in the mountains then expect this to happen from time to time.