CAMPBELL RIVER, B.C. – A pothole between 5th and 6th Avenues on Highway 19A left residents’ cars damaged a month ago.
Resident Katherine Sivorot-Nauta said it was an unpleasant experience, but that it should serve as a lesson for travellers to drive carefully.
“If I was to share anything with the public, it would be to make sure you drive 30 kilometres (an hour) through a construction zone. Any kind of issue you’re going to have, if you’re going to hit a pothole, it’s better to do it when you’re slow,” Sivorot-Nauta said.
She added that being aware of what’s on the road is also important.
“A lot of people might complain about the roads being torn up here and there but they have to keep the road open for people to travel on it, which means you have to piece-work it… as people of Campbell River, we have to put up with that and drive slowly.”
Sivorot-Nauta said the explanation she received was that the holes were filled, but water from the rain in the area between 5th and 6th Avenues is extreme as it is a slope. Along with the water, cars going by displaced the gravel in the unfinished holes.
She also said the holes have since been fixed.
