Written by MYRISSA KRENZLER
Citizen staff
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Friday, 04 July 2008 |
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McBride received $1.1 million to upgrade First and Second Avenue and Main Street, which are used as truck routes through the village. Valemount received $600,000 to make improvements to its Main Street.
"I'm very, very pleased with the Liberal government and their forward thinking and progressive attitude towards assisting small communities," McBride Mayor Mike Frazier said. "And they full well know that sometimes we're behind the eight ball. They recognize our problems and have been very proactive in trying to address them."
Valemount Mayor Jeanette Townsend echoed Frazier's praise. "We are very pleased to have received it," she said. "In a small municipality, we don't have an industrial tax base and all of these expenditures are really quite hard on our budget."
The money is part of a one-time $10 million grant to help smaller communities improve roads impacted by the pine beetle.
"We know the significant impact that the beetle has had in this part of the province so this is very good news for small communities and we were very pleased to be in both communities this morning to make those announcements," Bond said Friday.
In a statement, Falcon said "We know the road network in the rural communities has been hard hit by logging trucks carrying mountain pine beetle wood to market. This funding will help alleviate the wear and tear caused by heavy truck traffic and help ensure a safe, reliable road for the travelling public."
In addition to the funding announced Friday, the Ministry of Transportation and Infrastructure is investing $30 million this year to the rehabilitation of provincial roads affected by harvesting beetle-invested wood.
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