Residents on a North Kildonan street complain the city isn’t taking seriously their complaints that the potholed pavement desperately needs to be replaced.
Frasers Grove is a short stretch of residential roadway running west off the 1000 block of Henderson Highway. During a recent visit, Global News cameras saw that some of the street had disintegrated to the point the supporting steel bars underneath were visible.
“It’s been in bad shape for a number of years now,” says Lloyd Kreutzer. He says neighbours have little patience for the quick-fixes they have already seen city crews perform twice this spring: the so-called “cold patch” where asphalt is shoveled into the potholes.
“There might be moisture in that hole, and it doesn’t hold.” he says. “It gets worse every year.”
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Kreutzer adds that curbs have also been broken by snow plows and not repaired; on Wednesday the stop sign on the street corner was toppled over as well.
“This is a nice neighbourhood,” Kreutzer says that deserves better maintenance than it’s getting. He says residents have called to complain to the mayor and their local city councillor but have only been assured that repaving work will follow the city’s regular cycle. It’s not clear when Frasers Grove’s turn will come up.
The sorry state of roads in Winnipeg has become a political issue on a larger scale: Wednesday mayor Sam Katz slammed the NDP government’s latest budget for not providing enough funding for infrastructure, even though the Selinger government claims it has doubled funding for Winnipeg roads and is raising the provincial sales tax by a point to help pay for it.
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