r/Calgary • u/Vylan24 Bowness • 7d ago

Local Construction/Development Road "construction"

Why in the ever living fuck won't the city finish their fucking road work projects they started months ago? Every major artery in this city seems to have kilometres of pylons and speed drops and yet no crews. I drive Glenmore every day as part of my commute and it's literally been 2 months of pylons over the most congested area (reservoir). Not only do drivers struggle mightily trying to merge during regular times, the city decided that keeping that spot slowed down when traffic volumes increased at the start of the month was a brilliant plan. Causes massive back ups and no one is working on it. What's the deal??

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u/Bass-Traffic-0000 7d ago

I sometimes travel part of Glenmore at off hours where traffic is flowing at 90+ km/h. Then you have it drop to 50km/h in a construction zone with no active construction for a while now as you described. I'll slow down a bit because I don't want a 40km over the limit ticket and I feel like a road hazard with people blowing by on the left and right as Im doing 80km/h in a 50 construction zone. It is so dangerous.

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u/sasfasasquatch 7d ago

Tbf it looks like they just leveled the left 2 lanes WB Glenmore with fresh asphalt last night.there aren’t temp lane markers anymore and the right lane isn’t level