Just Ban It

It's simple...just ban trucks from Buchanan and adjacent roads.

                   Signs went up on Buchanan and adjacent roads end of November 2012            

The District of Coldstream has found the easy way to make rural roads last longer.

Never mind that the Coldstream Ranch needs to haul silage from its numerous fields that abut Buchanan Road...nah, they won't mind being barred from the road THEY THEMSELVES built.

Heaven forbid our Council would actually look into what caused the monumental deterioration of Buchanan Road this year...a chip sealed rural road...(albeit this pic is from Nova Scotia *grin*)

• Could it have been this (similar) truck (minus the Arabic script) hauling twice-daily from February (yes...February) through October the biosolids from BC Tree Fruits from Kelowna to the Coldstream Ranch fields on Buchanan Road?

•  Or how about this (exact) truck also from Kelowna plying the lengths of Buchanan Road--also twice-daily--all summer long?

• Or how about this (similar) outrigger-equipped truck that replaced numerous Hydro poles over the summer months?

• Or how about that legal axle loads are NEVER restricted (let alone posted) on Buchanan Road during spring's freeze-thaw periods?

Then add the fact that any fatality along the adjacent 5-mile stretch of Highway 6 has always led to a detour of all traffic onto Buchanan Road for the duration of the accident re-enactment/investigation ... and you'll quickly see what Coldstream's administration doesn't understand:  a truck ban can't work.

Yup...a ban is what Coldstream plans as a solution to this year's deterioration of Buchanan Road.

"Thank goodness Coldstream doesn't have a population problem," quips Kia.