I still remember the day I saw a roads truck pull up on Nosehill drive, put on his lights, walk around and heft a big plastic bag of warm asphalt patch out of the back of the truck, cut it open, and then fill a pot hole with it. Before that day, I had no idea asphat patching came in plastic bags as well. Kind of the size of like a quick set concrete bag.
They used that crap in a bag to fix a gathering of pot holes and a long ass crack on the road near my house. I don't know which is worse, the original pot holes, or the frigging bumpy moonscape they created with that patching material. Total amateur hour.
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By doubling or tripling the crews and working nights and weekends.
But ya I get it budgets and other priorities.
Calgary has been getting more restrictive on weekend closures for major roads, but a night shift isn't usually long enough to do most bridge rehab tasks. Staffing is also a big issue. Most construction companies are struggling to find and retain people, so asking people to work long hours, nights and weekends is getting harder to do.
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Anyone know what is going on at 4th st and McKnight NW? The road has been closed for several days, and their is no info anywhere on the city pages I can find.
I assume they are stealing some water pipe to fix the Bowness break, but am open to alternate theories/realities.
Anyone know what is going on at 4th st and McKnight NW? The road has been closed for several days, and their is no info anywhere on the city pages I can find.
I assume they are stealing some water pipe to fix the Bowness break, but am open to alternate theories/realities.
It's overshadowed by the feeder main break but Highwood also has a water main break:
'tis a small pipe. It's just kinda shocking water would(should?) communicate with roads to notify them of the shutdown, and the expected closure, and then, you know, citizens could understand wtf is going on and how long they need to detour. You know, kind of basic stuff? This has been several days now, so it's not a one day project.
^Water actually does their own road closures, usually don't involve the Traffic department at all unless it's a very large closure they can't handle themselves
^Water actually does their own road closures, usually don't involve the Traffic department at all unless it's a very large closure they can't handle themselves
OK, but I assume they can't update the road closure map, or the city traffic map(currently showing really slow flow there, even though it's completely closed). I dunno, if it's more than a day I think someone should let the public know, and then it gets mentioned in traffic reports, shows on this map, and Google Maps at minimum.
The Province really has no excuse for the condition of Deerfoot and stiffing the cities on funding, the economy is cooking and most oil sands projects are post payout. They don't even bother throwing cold mix into any but the worst ones. The center lane on northbound before 17th ave SE is a complete joke.
Time for Diet Kristi Noem and Ric McIver to spend some money.
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I wonder if they are holding off on any major repaving until all the Deerfoot projects are done?
I actually wonder if some of this has to do with the city workers sorta slowing down and watching other unions as the strike stuff begins. I know CUPE 38 is doing the work to rule stuff as they continue negotiations. Yes, city vs province is different, but everyone kinda watches each other.
Not sure who is who in terms of some of the City of Calgary worker strikes, but I have no doubt in my mind that some departments are kinda scaling back slightly and watching other departments, even if they themselves are not striking. I've seemingly seen a lot more large open construction projects with barely anyone wandering around them. I've wondered if this is connected.
I did hear from someone that the unions did temporarily reduce their push for aggressive strike actions until after the water main is sorted out. Whether this is more for media reasons (valid) and/or because obviously union members are citizens of this city and also affected by this, doesn't matter. But what I did hear was that it was intentional to get the water main stuff sorted out before focusing on the negotiations/strike stuff again.
Maybe I see it because I want to see it as a Calgarian, but I find it kinda funny that the 1968 proposition picture for that road kinda has a shape that looks like a saddle.
The Province really has no excuse for the condition of Deerfoot and stiffing the cities on funding, the economy is cooking and most oil sands projects are post payout. They don't even bother throwing cold mix into any but the worst ones. The center lane on northbound before 17th ave SE is a complete joke.
Time for Diet Kristi Noem and Ric McIver to spend some money.
I have a little sports car and was way down south for the first time last night in a long while. I was coming back north on Deerfoot near Anderson and my car is literally bouncing up and down. I thought I blew a tire or something. Exited at the shopping centre as I thought something was really wrong. The condition of the road is brutal.
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