Senior thanks road crews

Road crews get their fair share of dirty looks, but a local senior is praising the work of the safety-vest clad men and women on No. 3 Road.

Joan Barnes, a woman in her mid-70s, lives in an apartment on Minoru Boulevard and regularly walks to her favourite shopping haunts like Zellers and Superstore.

Despite the recent mess No. 3 Road has become in the heart of City Centre, she has no trouble navigating through the rubble—even while towing her shopping “buggy.”

“They’re really good,” said Barnes, who contacted The Richmond Review Thursday. “They’ll hold up traffic and get you safely across the street. I think it’s great.”

When road construction is particularly harried, she said the workers don’t hesitate to physically help her across the street.

Imperial Paving Ltd. is responsible for the work. The city hired the firm to redo No. 3 Road following Canada Line construction.

—by Matthew Hoekstra

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