Wednesday, February 3, 2021 Vol. 44, No. 5
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Service road in Viking widened to accommodate truck traffic Patricia Harcourt Editor
HCL Site Services of Vegreville is busy completing work on the service road in Viking that will improve safety and traffic issues along the entire length of road running from north to south. So far, Town of Viking CAO Don McLeod reports that the drainage problems at the north end were fixed by taking out the old smaller culvert and replacing it with a 1,500 metre culvert installed properly to grade, “to aide drainage capabilities.” Mid-way down the roadway heading south, the pedestrian walking bridge was replaced as a new culvert in the drainage ditch area was installed. The ditch was then properly sloped to allow town public works “to get in and mow,” he said. Presently, the crew is widening the entire east side of the service road to better accommodate truck traffic. The work is to be completed by March 31 at a cost of approximately a quarter of a million dollars, which Alberta Transportation is paying for in its entirety, said McLeod. The same company installed the culverts on 50th Street last fall and will return in the spring to reseed the area east of main street behind the town reservoir at the north end of town. “They will also seed grass into the drainage ditch adjacent to the service road,” at that time, he said.