A8 - The Terrace Standard, Wednesday, June 11, 2003 Safety crusader winning road war > By JENNIFER LANG THE WOMAN who's waged a campaign over winter highway safety says she's pleased with the re- sponse her efforts are hay- ing in the northwest ~ and in Victoria. Joanne Monaghan, vice-chair of the Kitimat- Stikine regional district, presented a petition call- ing for better highway maintenance standards to transportation minister Ju- dith Reid two weeks ago. “I think it’s raised the issue in the ministry now. People are becoming aware that it’s a problem, ” she said. Joanne Monaghan designation because of the ing anecdotal information along to transportation ministry regional manager Don Ramsay, — Monaghan’s efforts also helped convince Ramsay to launch a local commit- tee that looked at ways to improve winter road~and highway safety. oe The committee~inclu- ded transportation ministry staff, representatives from the current maintenance contractor, Nechako Northcoast, truck drivers and others, Monaghan said she ori- ginally suspected mainte- nance standards had slip- ped in the northwest, LORE PSY + PR IECRSY + BOUL PSY © PDELEN SY PAIULISY 9 ADELE See CONLEDSY «CHILLS We FEULE PSY 40,000 British Columbians dave epilepsy. 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