Brilliance at work. Set up fencing for work months before they even have a scheduled start date, let alone THE start date, or even the parts in hand to begin fabrication. Any millipede brain would send a crew back out to shift the fencing over 3 feet for the year it’ll sit there. It would take them a day to move the fencing over.
Ya, but "shortly" could be 3 hours from now! You just have to be prepared.
I also think blocking off the main path to 7th st all summer with their trailer and fencing is pretty egregious.
Maybe we'll get 2 weeks sometime when everything is wide open from Peace Bridge to Eau Claire...before it gets torn up for another half decade for green line construction.
Maybe we'll get 2 weeks sometime when everything is wide open from Peace Bridge to Eau Claire...before it gets torn up for another half decade for green line construction.
I've got the perfect solution!
We turn the 'Pedestrian' bridge into a Pedestrian/C-Train bridge and we kill 2 birds with one bridge!
Run the Train over the bridge!
That way the C-Trains can smoke pedestrians and cyclists in an easily hose-able environment and the bodies just go into the water!
Its wins all around!
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I saw that when I rode over it on my way home Friday afternoon, I just laughed. Should have this reno complete by 2035 at this rate.
It's taken like 2 years to build a couple of pathway onramps and do some landscaping at the Centre Street bridge, so nothing is a complete surprise timing wise.
And speaking of those onramps, the connection to the bridge on the western side is hilariously badly designed. I wouldn't be surprised if it already caused a few collisions.
It's taken like 2 years to build a couple of pathway onramps and do some landscaping at the Centre Street bridge, so nothing is a complete surprise timing wise.
And speaking of those onramps, the connection to the bridge on the western side is hilariously badly designed. I wouldn't be surprised if it already caused a few collisions.
Brutal integration to the pathway area there, I have my head on a swivel when approaching it from the east.
That or escalator repair technicians from the Calgary area.
Sorry, all the parts for your elevator are out of stock. It'll be $18,000 to replace the phone with one that's up to current code.
UNLESS you sign a 5 year contract to use us, then it's $1,000.
Of course, then you're committing to "customary rates as set by the vendor in its sole discretion" along with double time evenings and triple time weekends.
Saying these guys are like the mafia is unfair, because that overly dramatizes how ruthless organized crime families are.
The class of 2024 can rejoice! By the time they are taking grad photos, they should have no problem cropping out whatever construction fencing remains at that time.
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I just love how people stand in the middle of the bridge amidst the fencing and people trying to get by, to get a picture of...construction fencing? If you want a picture, stand on the bank with the bridge in the background. At least that will minimize the fencing with the added bonus of not being in the way of everyone, and it'll be a better picture.
I just love how people stand in the middle of the bridge amidst the fencing and people trying to get by, to get a picture of...construction fencing? If you want a picture, stand on the bank with the bridge in the background. At least that will minimize the fencing with the added bonus of not being in the way of everyone, and it'll be a better picture.
I'll never understand people.
I imagine these people aren’t in Calgary everyday or ride over the bridge constantly to become so accustomed to it that it has become a mundane piece of infrastructure. This is probably like New Yorkers who have to get around tourists clogging up the sidewalks to take pics of everything. I think inevitably you either have to get used to touristy people doing touristy things or find another route.
I imagine these people aren’t in Calgary everyday or ride over the bridge constantly to become so accustomed to it that it has become a mundane piece of infrastructure. This is probably like New Yorkers who have to get around tourists clogging up the sidewalks to take pics of everything. I think inevitably you either have to get used to touristy people doing touristy things or find another route.
Some people definitely need to learn to chill out a bit especially when in congested areas. There was a cyclist ahead of me the other week going onto the Peace Bridge and it was a very busy afternoon. The guy started ringing his bell incessantly from one end to the other and he was getting so frustrated that there was pedestrians everywhere and he couldn't rip across the bridge. There is no need for that level of aggregation when slowing down to a pedestrian pace will get you across the bridge in a minute. Why I ride across the bridge I know it will most likely be crazy and I just take my time and see it as an opportunity to save some energy.
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I imagine these people aren’t in Calgary everyday or ride over the bridge constantly to become so accustomed to it that it has become a mundane piece of infrastructure. This is probably like New Yorkers who have to get around tourists clogging up the sidewalks to take pics of everything. I think inevitably you either have to get used to touristy people doing touristy things or find another route.
I just mean that it's bound to be a really ####ty picture. A far better one is one showing the bridge, not being on it(given the fencing). Expecting everyone to stop while 10 of you setup for a group photo isn't exactly respecting others, either.
But your point is also why it was so stupid not to send a couple guys out back in June to move the fencing over once they realized it would be like this all summer. It's mostly the city I'm frustrated with this one.
