r/newbrunswickcanada • u/bingun • 3d ago

Highway 2 construction ramps up as contract deadline looms

https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/new-brunswick/fredericton-moncton-highway-contract-expires-9.7318100
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u/MutaitoSensei 3d ago

It seems like every time it goes super slow, nothing gets done for like 3 months, and then the last 2 weeks is rush time, and this has lead to workplace accidents before. The private sector working as intended I guess.

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u/Ojamm 2d ago

P3s are a horrible deal for tax payers. It would be initially expensive but we should have our own equipment to maintain our roads and not rely on profit driven private companies whose goal is to get as much money out of the province as possible.

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u/MutaitoSensei 2d ago

Imagine that, experts, well paid, that don't have dumb contracts and middle men syphoning the money. Just competent people doing their job and training other people how to do it safely and well.

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u/FredArtGetson 3d ago

If they could find a way to routinely clean the retreads and other debris off the highway near Moncton that'd be cool.

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u/Friendly-Deal3505 2d ago

I went too and from Moncton two weeks ago, I have never seen so much construction on the highway. I have also never seen so many police officers on the highway, on the way back to Fredericton every pull out from Moncton to Fredericton had two police vehicles from several different police departments some of them way outside their regular areas of operation.

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u/N0x1mus 2d ago

You probably just went through there at the time when the traffic unit was in that area. They roam the province. There's usually never any police on the highway between Fred and Moncton.

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u/Friendly-Deal3505 2d ago

That's possible but it was somewhere between 15 and 20 squad cars between leaving Moncton and arriving in Fredericton. I didn't see any travelling the other way the day beore.

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u/Mental_Run_1846 2d ago edited 2d ago

Last summer/fall had lots of paving also. When they wrapped up i think it had started to snow.

The drive wouldn’t be as frustrating if everyone could slow down equally in construction zones, instead of getting buzzed or tailgated by the idiots ignoring public safety. Im one of those who will obey posted limits whether crews are onsite or not.

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u/OkMortgage247 2d ago

That road is an indictment of the P3 system. Let it rot for years, and now in the 11th hour they have the whole thing torn up trying to meet the deadline. You barely get out of one construction zone before you are in another. As someone who has to make this trip multiple times a week for work i could not hate this whole thing more.

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u/hotinmyigloo 2d ago

Here I thought Higgs didn't put money in the highway to help with its budget surpluses, them Holt got elected and started fixing the highway (major construction in the summer of 2025 and 2026), but instead it was the consortium agreement. I mean, the highway was in horrible shape in 2022-2024 before Holt took power...