The province closed the highway to Port Alberni for a full day to remove fridge-sized boulders
Crews removed about 10 truckloads of rock debris after a day-long rock-scaling session Thursday at the Cameron Bluffs on Highway 4 that shut down all traffic from 8:30 a.m. to 9 p.m.
A second full day of rock scaling is set for next Thursday at the same location, and Staite said things are “on track” for a full reopening of the highway by the end of the month. A single-lane opening at the bluffs has been allowing alternating traffic to get through at set times while rock scaling was underway, but the two days of extended closures were scheduled because workers discovered about a dozen boulders the size of refrigerators that had to be removed.Prior to Thursday’s closure, crews had already taken out about 600 tonnes of rock-scaling debris and 200 dangerous trees.
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