Westcoast Views with Laila Yuile
Politics & Life in British Columbia
For Merv. There is nothing that gets a transportation geeks blood pumping than seeing some excellent investigative work on a project you’ve written about at least a dozen times: the Port Mann bridge project. Two pieces you should read this morning and I will tell you why in a moment. From CBC: ‘Weak oversight’Continue reading Everything old is new again: CBC investigation raises big questions about Port Mann bridge build.
Call me a geek but the big transportation projects of BC have always been of keen interest to me and I’ve written about many. The Kicking Horse bridge, the South Fraser Perimeter road,Port Mann Bridge and of course, the infamous Sea to Sky highway. With the discussion of road pricing and regional tolling sure toContinue reading Sea to Sky highway project making money once again…but not for the taxpayers of BC
A little funny thing happened on the blog today I thought I’d share because it’s another one of those things many people don’t know about government. They monitor media and not only do they monitor it, they rate it. I often get incoming links from their daily rounds when a blog post or tweet hasContinue reading Monitoring the monitors
One of the advantages to blogging is the ability to follow up on stories as many times as one needs to get to the bottom of it. And as is becoming more common with stories involving the BC provincial government, it’s a matter of digging deeper,looking beyond the ministry media handler statements and sometimes goingContinue reading Sea to Sky highway retaining walls safety inspection reports released, raise more questions on quality of build and maintenance.
Westcoast Views with Laila Yuile 