A plan to repave a 10-kilometre stretch of Cape Breton highway falls short of what a retired Public Works employee said is needed to fix dangerous ruts that have been blamed in the past for crashes.

Danny Laffin said he tried to get the province to fix the ruts on Highway 125 a few years ago, but they came back. He blamed the problem on a microcoating material used to fill in the grooves.

"I believe it was just a short-term solution, a Band-Aid over the problem, where the department needs to look…