City Construction can be a bitch!

[To Be Quite Honest]

So for the last 2 weeks center street has been in shambles. I live just off centre and last August - October and the last two weeks have been dust city and earthquake hell. The big rollers have been out shaking the house before 7 am, like 6:30, and I can appreciate the urgency, but everyone has their limit...

So today, after an all nighter working, these #######s decide to start well before the allowable time slot. I've had enough. I go outside in slippers and all to tell them to shut the fracking thing down till the allowable time in our municipality. So I begin priming the character I'll play, because I'm soooo not an a-hole in person, but I can play one on TV. I get to the first guy and he can't get a word in edge wise. I finish my winded spiel and he says as he points, "Talk to that guy..."
"Damn, did I seem upset to you? Did I at-least seem believable?"
"Yeah, sure!" he replied with more gusto then a city worker has any right too. What a good guy. So I walk down to the foremen truck ready to perform my no nonsense "where is your respect" without giving respect back scolding and he replies, "Hey, my name is #######, that's usually how we start a conversation."
Damn again...
####### starts explaining to me that the last two weeks are not hie responsibility because they just pave the roads. He is right. That's just their separate contract and me, captain a-hole just stormed out there like a mad bull and tore a strip out of him and I felt bad. So I said to him, "I'm sorry, but did you at-least believe that I was upset?!"

So I grabbed my phone and called the supervisor. Complained that they started 20 mins earlier than they should and also said that the workers and foreman were really great in talking with me. The boss said, "Um okay, wow, I don't get these calls at all but I'll be sure to tell them to start on time and tell them that they did a great job."

Dropped off a carafe of coffee and told them where to put the empty for a refill.

Good start to the day.

Spoiler!

So any construction complaints or stories from you?

[First Lady]

Hey we are neighbours... well for a couple more weeks until we move.

I'm a little baffled as to why they are tearing up this part of Centre yet again.... Bunk?

[To Be Quite Honest]

Originally Posted by First Lady

Hey we are neighbours... well for a couple more weeks until we move.

I'm a little baffled as to why they are tearing up this part of Centre yet again.... Bunk?

Hey neighbor, Van City losses beers tomorrow? PM!

[Raekwon]

When I drive by tomorrow run out with a fresh coffee otherwise I'm honking the horn non stop every morning

[SeeBass]

hello neighbors

I'm glad one of you went out there. I could hear but I didn't know what was making the noise.

Don't tell anybody that Golden Central is the best Chinese in the city

[Hockeyguy15]

Originally Posted by SeeBass

hello neighbors

I'm glad one of you went out there. I could hear but I didn't know what was making the noise.

Don't tell anybody that Golden Central is the best Chinese in the city

Is it really?

I live in the aparments down the hill by the A&W, and I usually get chinese from the Cherry Inn in Hunterhorn.

[SebC]

Just wait until they put an LRT under Centre Street!

[To Be Quite Honest]

Not a fan, but I lived with a couple who were Chinese and he actually came from Hong Kong. His family built restaurants all over Sask for decades. Can't eat Canadian Chinese food unless I'm too drunk to care now.

How cool is it that we live so close!

[First Lady]

Originally Posted by To Be Quite Honest

Hey neighbor, Van City losses beers tomorrow? PM!

Hubby out of town - drinks with stranger - probably not good idea...

Plus my daughter will just have arrived from Australia, so don't want to abandon her on first night.

Originally Posted by SeeBass

hello neighbors

I'm glad one of you went out there. I could hear but I didn't know what was making the noise.

Don't tell anybody that Golden Central is the best Chinese in the city

Now you tell me... we usually go with Cherry Inn too.

[Hemi-Cuda]

What I'd like to know is after all the construction the city did on the Deerfoot Calf Robe Bridge, why does it still feel like you're going off road every time you drive on it? All that time and money spent on "repairs" and I can't see a single improvement, they would have been better off spending the money to replace it entirely

[chemgear]

Originally Posted by Hemi-Cuda

What I'd like to know is after all the construction the city did on the Deerfoot Calf Robe Bridge, why does it still feel like you're going off road every time you drive on it? All that time and money spent on "repairs" and I can't see a single improvement, they would have been better off spending the money to replace it entirely

I recall a math professor ranting many years ago that the bridge and adjoining sections of road were not continuously "smooth" (ala calculus and associated derivatives along the path of the road). Perhaps a civil engineer would have a better idea though.

That aside, I'd figure that it was mainly due to the fact that you're surrounded by morons and that you have to go off the road just to avoid them.

[Bill Bumface]

Originally Posted by chemgear

I recall a math professor ranting many years ago that the bridge and adjoining sections of road were not continuously "smooth" (ala calculus and associated derivatives along the path of the road). Perhaps a civil engineer would have a better idea though.

I think you're talking about how it was designed without using spiral curves.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Logarithmic_spiral

Usually freeways are designed with these so that as you're driving the curve tightens in radius, allowing you to slowly adjust your steering angle. It's a safety feature.

[Mazrim]

If I were to hazard a guess, I would be very certain that the Calf Robe bridges have spirals on the curves. They're probably just at minimum standards because of the situation there, and the need to reduce the amount of bridge they were building. The only place that definitely doesn't? NB Deerfoot at 17th Avenue. That's a compound curve and it always throws people off. A necessary evil to avoid the Bow River.