i agree with the minister.The bridge is fantastic.Road maintenace severely dropped the ball on this one.AND I can also mention a few other places that highway maintennace has totally screwed the driving public and OUR truckers trying to get our products safely too their customers.Check out Drive BC once in awhile.I'm on the road as a safety enforcement officier for our company constantly! Highway #5,#3 and the 97C are NEVER kept in safe conditions,Please sir can I pay more!!

The NDP do themselves a disservice by having Harry Bains speak on their behalf . Remember the saying about some village is short an idiot ? ...

Is the New Port Mann the Liberal's Fast Ferry?

Good grief. What a stupid debate. Greater Vancouver has a handful of treacherous days annually. A heated bridge would make us all a laughing stock. It should have been salted, but really, the fog froze on the deck around 6 am as the accidents occurred. How about when it's slippery and foggy, slow down, leave more room and drive appropriately?
Build a new house and as deficiencies are found (and they usually are), fix them. Period.

EXCUSES THAT FIT THE NEED:

1) EXCUSE NO.1
When PMKILLER Bridge barfed ice/snow onto innocent hostage toll payers:

"The cars were STOPPED?SLOWED DOWN - so the harmonics were
not working to remove the ice/snow from cables"

2) EXCUSE NO.2
When the PMKILLER Bridge iced up - even though NO OTHER bridges in the province of bridges did the same:

"The cars were moving TOO FAST - as opposed to slower when the
OLD SLOW bridge was in place"

So what is it - TOO FAST or TOO SLOW?
Think FAST - LIE large!

I propose a NEW NAME for this AWESOME KILLER BRIDGE

Bridge of a BILLION LIES!

Mary mary........this is UNacceptable!!!!

what happened to your repeating that same statment last week??
and waggin your Liberal Fiberal Finger?

You are a classic Liberal Liar
You lied about living in langley -(led by other liars especially Richie Richfat) just to get elected - and now you know no other way.

Mary - this and YOU are highly UNACCEPTABLE!

I heard on CKNW that the drivers on PM2 were driving well over the speed limit despite the fog and black ice.

The way I see it, the PM2 was a waste of taxpayers' money. Keep the old bridge, bring in busses to get some commuters out of their cars, and we'd have saved a lot of money.

Liberals' Legacy=wasted money on:

1. the new Port Mann bridge (aka the "fair weather bridge") and

2. the BC Place new roof (I call it "Pricks" because of the roof's appearance and of the Liberals who decided that a partial roof opening and a leaking roof was worth half a billion dollars of our money)

I get a real kick out of NDP critic Harry Bains in suggesting dat all da BC Lieberals r bout is photo ops - not dat he's wrong - but look wat's calling da kettle black; Harry Bains only comes out of hiding wen he can get his mug in da news. He dosen' even respond to his constituents w/o da use of age & ethnic supporter bias. Da Port Mann bridge has been a gong show rite from da start, not 2 different den da Cambie cut & cover fiasco. Harry Bains did very little 2 bring deez issues 2 da publics attn. Harry Bains is just as bad as Mayor Diane Watts and Mayor Peter Fastspender, all day want 2 do is spend money we don't hav & adopt da BC Lieberal 5-D philisophy; Delay, Deny, Deflect, Deceipt and Disengenuous as a way of doing business. Basically all talk no action. Der is a gov delay in finding out da root cause of da Port Mann debackle in handling simple winter conditions, da gov is denying any responsiblity 4 a bad design & crossing choice, trying 2 deflect it onto da unsuspecting Road Maintenence Contractor, being deceitfull in supplying erroneous information and being disengenuous with da driving public bout da safety of dis overly touted crossing. Da driving habits r only but a sympthom of ICBC and da way it handles it's use of da 5-D's and da maintenance contractor is caught between a rock and a hard spot, cause day can't say anyting bout da gov if day want 2 keep da contract, but day were not given any info on how 2 deal with da newest white elephant thrust on dem by out irresponsible gov - all cause da gov needed 2 bring in da project "on time & on budget". Who no's wat skuldugary da BC Lieberals cut outta da Prt Mann crossing 2 acheive der selfish goals - public safety cud not hav been der hiest priority - dats' 4 sure - all day've built is da worlds biggest & most expensive parking lot. Maybe da NDP can turn it into scrap like da BC Lieberals did wit da fast ferries and use da material 2 build a bridge over 2 Vanc Isle; so we can get rid of dem dam bottomless pit ferries. We can use da off-shore built ferries as footings 4 da new bridge - da east coast did it why can't we?