2,000 Vehicles Use Highway 13 Near Town Daily

Just over 13 percent of traffic are trucks like this which can be seen moving along Highway 13 near town. ©Provost News Photo. Full detailed story in April 6 edition of The Provost News. Want to Subscribe to The Provost News? Click here.

Town Maintenance Discouraged on Privately Owned “Elevator Road”
A question came up at the Provost and District Chamber of Commerce regular meeting on Wednesday at noon about the maintenance of the road that runs beside east and west where the old elevators used to be located in Provost.

Chief administrative officer of the Town of Provost, Terry Hurlbut reminded those in attendance that the Town of Provost can not legally be on that road because it is privately held. The town has been discouraged by the owner from maintaining that road at the town’s cost over the decades, even when grain trucks were using it to haul crops to the elevators.

Taxes for that stretch of land (see map) are sent to the Canadian Pacific Railway for payment.

Although over the years and with different town council administrations, town graders have done some maintaining of the road, including snow plowing, Hurlbut points out that they have been told that the town is not even to cut grass or weeds along that road.

More clarification was sought by The News with two telephone calls to a technical specialist with the railway in Moose Jaw, Sask., but he was awaiting information from another department.

Full story in April 6 edition of The Provost News.
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