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Originally Posted by Mazrim
It seems pretty unlikely that they'll be doing environmental assessments in these emergency conditions. A simple risk analysis will tell you the economic impact of doing things the usual or even the expedited way for enviro stuff will excessively impact the entire BC economy more than any impacts their work would have on any flora and fauna there, especially considering we're into the winter months.
I say this in general and not to you specifically, but some of the speculation of how long things take to repair on social media is really leading to some panic and hysteria from those who don't know enough about the situation. Trying to quash the disinformation about how these emergency repairs usually go would go a long way in calming some nerves out there, but that's probably a full time job at this point.
There's nothing wrong with discussing it here in a sensible manner, but as an example I was chatting with my parents who were getting concerned they wouldn't be able to travel from the Okanagan to the Lower Mainland for general travel "until late 2022" which apparently someone had claimed on Facebook. This is the telephone game in action: one person says it's hard to fix these things, another person takes that and says it'll be months before anyone can drive there, another sees a couple pictures out of context and says years, and so on, and suddenly the story morphs into a beast that causes panic or despair.
The same story says the road reopened 4 hours later, which is really good. This will probably be a regular issue for the immediate future and probably not unexpected.
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they probably live in the mission area of kelowna and have noticed that after over a year the city finally finished work on this small bridge....
https://www.google.com/maps/@49.8175...7i13312!8i6656
and it wasn't for lack of man power at the work site - there were always dozens of people there... they never seemed to be doing anything, but they were there in their hi-vis vests!
at the city of kelowna's pace, they'd be lucky if it was 2030!
