City tries to correct past road lane errors
Driving around Prince Albert, some residents may have noticed an extra lane or two painted in that weren’t there before.
Since May 27, arterial and collector roads in Prince Albert were repainted and altered at times.
Wes Hicks, manager of capital projects, said the City contracted Alberta-based LaFrentz, for less than $50,000, to re-evaluate and paint the lane lines on arterial and collector road. As of Sunday, it was 99 per cent complete.
“We attempted to straighten some of the previous errors in where the lines were painted and so hopefully we’ve achieved that by making a standard 3.5-metre wide lane. And as regarding right-hand turning lanes, many of them were marked and many were not, so we’ve tried our best to mark the right-hand turning lane wherever there is a set of traffic lights,” Hicks said, adding they followed Canadian Traffic Standards and evaluated each street based on its width.