The road less gravelled

Point Roberts residents tired of worn out pavement or dusty gravel roads won’t get a new surface to drive on this year, but it looks good for next year when chipsealing crews will be up resurfacing most of the 34 miles of county road on the Point.

“We’re looking at opportunities to do that to save the taxpayers money,” Dick Prieve of public works said. The four miles of public dirt roads on the Point that were left unfinished by developers are graded and oiled every year by county crews. “If the road is current to county standards and we can just grade it and apply a chipseal, we’ll do it,” Prieve said. “We may not be able to do it if major modifications of the road are needed.”

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