Praise and Pause

Robert Craigue | Feb 10, 2021

I would like to congratulate those involved in the K&P trail improvement from Sharbot Lake to Clarendon Station. It is better than 90% of the roads in the county. The only thing that I thought was over the top, was the fencing. A lot of money spent for something that was never there before. A suggestion about how to get funding for Zealand Road, ask the province for it. It has been used at least twice that I know off as a detour road for Highway 7 recently. The big rigs beat the heck out of it and pretty soon we will have to replace the corduroy anyway. Alternatively, there are a number of local hoes and dump trucks that would love to be able to work late in the season to ditch the road properly and to do what they can on the blind hills and corners. I'm sure people would love to have the fill if it could be levelled afterwards so it wouldn't have to be trucked far. It was a real shame that the only project before the provincial government infrastructure was downtown Sharbot Lake. Another beautiful job, but hardly the worst roads. We should have started immediately to propose another infrastructure proposal because that's going to be the only money spent in the immediate future. And please, no more talk about a new home for bureaucrats, they only cost us money, they don't generate wealth.

You may remember, I had a property that the bureaucrats deemed I couldn't sell because it was unbuildable, well finally after I had met all objections from MVCA and C/F, they said I didn't have enough sight line for traffic on the 509 Highway to an entrance that had been there since before the rebuilding of the road. I gave it to C/F for free so I wouldn't have to pay taxes on it.

Robert Craigue