Image: Supplied by City of Chilliwack / The City of Chilliwack said Friday (Jan. 6) that it has substantially completed paving on 23 roads throughout the city in 2022, and is now looking at roads to repair in the spring of 2023.
City of Chilliwack

City says it substantially paved 23 roads in 2022, looks ahead to 2023

Jan 6, 2023 | 10:48 AM

CHILLIWACK — The City of Chilliwack wrote in its just-released monthly transportation newsletter Friday (Jan. 6) that it substantially paved 23 roads throughout Chilliwack in 2022, and has a couple of roads it’d like to pave coming up in the spring.

The city it has mostly completely paving on 23 roads, including roadways in Ryder Lake, Rosedale, Yarrow, Sardis, and the Bailey Landfill.

The city’s list of substantially completed roads consist of the following:

  • Hopedale Road (Keith Wilson Road to South Sumas Road)
  • Savoy Road – Sand Road (to end of pavement)
  • Ryder Lake Road (Huston Road to Elk View Road)
  • South Sumas Road (Sumas Prairie to Hopedale Road)
  • Kirk Avenue – No. 3 Road (to end of pavement)
  • Ryder Lake Road (Elk View Road to Ross Road)
  • Yale Road (Ford Road to McGrath Road)
  • Ferry Road (McGrath Road to Dyke)
  • Mayfair Avenue
  • Willow Drive (Chilliwack Central Road to McCaffrey Boulevard)
  • James Street (first 300m north of Acorn Avenue)
  • Prairie Central Road (Upper Prairie Road to Annis Road)
  • Upper Prairie Road (Chilliwack Central Road to Yale Road)
  • Chilliwack Central Road (Annis Road to Ford Road)
  • Yale Road (Nowell Street to Williams Street)
  • Karson Road (Robinson Road to end)
  • Elk View Road (Payne Road to Ryder Lake Road)
  • Nowell Street (First Avenue to Yale Road)
  • Spadina Avenue (Yale Road to First Avenue)
  • Yale Road (Main Street to Princess Avenue)
  • Wellington Avenue (Mill Street to Cook Street)
  • Bailey Landfill (interior roads)
  • Evans Road at Wells Road

Coming up this spring, the city hopes to rehab Uplands Road (west of Promontory Road) as well as Elm Drive from Norrish Avenue to Chilliwack Central Road. There are no other roads on the city’s immediate list of paving projects, but new roads due for repair are added throughout the year.

According to the city’s website, the City of Chilliwack tenders asphalt rehabilitation work for various roads to maintain the driving surface and reduce maintenance costs.

Typically the engineering department recommends rehabilitation of roads in the worst condition in each classification based on a condition survey which is updated every five years. A comprehensive survey was last conducted by Stantec in the late summer of 2017.

Minor drainage and curb and gutter improvements will be made adjacent to rehabilitation projects where significant deterioration has occurred or upgrades are required.

The engineering department says that it coordinates both timing and scope of work with operations, development, and utility departments. The city says this type of collaboration avoids unnecessary utility cuts in newer asphalt, increases cost efficiencies, and minimizes impacts to residents.