Carman's Main Street currently sits in the top spot in CAA Manitoba's Worst Roads Campaign for 2016. The initiative is intended to help draw attention to the province's deteriorating roads and highways, and the results will be shared with municipalities across Manitoba.
    
In an earlier interview, Mayor Bob Mitchell says the ever-expanding craters along the road are creating some serious safety concerns for council.

"...It's dangerous for people crossing the road. Trucks are weaving all over the place to avoid potholes. It's getting bad."  

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Reconstruction of the highway was originally on the province's to-do list about two years ago but got delayed because of a legal matter on a stretch of road north of town, and now Mitchell says he's hearing that the project isn't on MIT's radar for 2016 and notes it could be 2017 before anything happens.

"That's our understanding of it through the grapevine...we don't get any specifics from Highways."

Mitchell suspects budgetary constraints are playing a role in this delay, or that the department may feel there are worse areas in the province.

"I can't imagine there's a road in the province that's worse than this stretch."

He notes complaints coming into the Town Office are becoming more frequent, and says staff have been directing callers to the various provincial departments overseeing the situation.

Mitchell encourages the public to continue voting for the highway, he hopes that with enough votes the reconstruction project will happen in 2017.