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Originally Posted by timun
I'm quite literally looking out a west-facing window up 5th Ave, and I haven't the foggiest idea WTF you're talking about. Maybe you mean this:
... which isn't "right at the entrance to the downtown core".
The kind of grievance espoused by Ducay is nothing but ignorant, petulant whining. If you stagger roads and utilities upgrades projects it'll take twice as long to get them done, in which case people bitch, bitch, bitch. If you have them concurrent? Bitch, bitch, bitch... When would you prefer this work to be done? I know the answer—at a time and manner in which you are never, ever personally inconvenienced—but this is the real world and it doesn't work that way. In reality there is no time, no phasing, that would satisfy many people, so they plod ahead and get the bloody job done. Boo-hoo, deal with it.
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Every other major city with a dedicated planning function is generally able to better schedule and complete these works. As noted by a bunch of other posters this is different from the emergency water main and has been ongoing for over a week. Love all the adjectives you've used but constricting your core access at 50% of the main thoroughfares is just bad design and planning. Lazy work by the bureaucrats in city hall, nothing more.