Months after completion, roads are keeping a new clinic in Deer Lake closed

Concrete blocks are currently barring both roads to the clinic's parking lot. Two fresh stretches of pavement leading to a brand new 30,000 square foot facility. Construction wrapped in mid-August, but the town of Deer Lake still hasn't taken ownership of the two access roads. The town says that the province won't allow one of the roads to open, the one that leads to a busy part of the TCH that could soon be reconfigured. The other access road goes through a subdivision project that's still under development. With the town saying it's too soon to assume ownership of the new pavement and any related liabilities. The mayor says even if that road was ready, he's not comfortable with a new clinic opening with just one access point. We want that clinic open. We need that clinic open. But I don't want to make a bad issue worse. By having a one-way in and a one-way out in that new facility. And then we've got to take the ownership of that subdivision without an unfinished Despite repeated requests over the course of the last week, Newfoundland and Labrador Health Services was not able to provide an opening date for the clinic. Patrick Butler for CBC News, St. John's.