Fence to Nowhere delayed

Residents living on the Road to Nowhere still don’t have snow fencing to protect their homes from snowdrifts, because the wrong kind of orange plastic netting was shipped.

“We got stuff that looks like fishing net,” said Mark Hall, director of public works.

In late 2005, city council agreed to spend up to $300,000 on installing a snow fence around the snowbound neighbourhood, where residents fear being trapped in their homes by drifts. City staff planned to have the fence up by Christmas, but were delayed by the mix-up.

The fence should be installed by the end of this week, Hall said, or early next week at the latest. The more narrow netting accidentally shipped up will be used to fence off dig sites.