Dryden ponders highway toll booth protest

Dryden’s Mayor isn’t happy that his city must pay to repave a section of the TransCanada Highway, and is considering fighting back with a toll booth.

The province will repave a section of the highway, and about three kilometres of that project will take place on road that goes through Dryden. Mayor Craig Nuttall said his community is expected to pay for those three kilometres.

“The roadbed and everything is perfect, and I talked with the town’s engineer and he said all they would have to do is repave it,” Nuttall said during an interview with CKPR Radio.

“(The province says) that we might get a bypass someday, but is that 20 years from now? As far as I’m concerned, we are not going to spend any more money on (the province’s) highway.”

Nuttall added that Dryden typically pays for 10 per cent of the cost for repaving projects, and can’t understand why it’s different this time.


-- With files from CKPR Radio