Plympton-Wyoming's mayor welcomes action being taken by the province to improve winter road maintenance, but he questions whether it's enough.
In response to a critical auditor general's report, the province has pledged to add more equipment in rural and congested urban areas, apply more anti-icing liquids to road surfaces before storms hit and work with contractors to improve equipment readiness.
Mayor Lonny Napper hopes it'll help along a crash-prone stretch of Hwy. 402 in his municipality.
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The auditor general found that snow clearance on major highways took over twice as long after the Liberal government privatized road maintenance.
There have been several multi-vehicle pileups on the 402 the past three winters including a double fatality in 2013 and another in 2014 that saw five Plympton-Wyoming firefighters injured while responding to a crash.
