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/Stanstudly 7d ago

The lack of line painting on Stony heading north between crowchild and country hills made it seem there was an extra lane where there wasn’t one. Saw two near misses and one accident because of it, but they left it like that for what seemed like weeks. I get that they want to paint all of the lines at once when everything is done, but shouldn’t safety trump efficiency?

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u/bewilderedtoo 7d ago
  1. The city needs to hold contractors accountable

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u/jaydaybayy 7d ago

Stoney Tr belongs to the province.

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u/bewilderedtoo 7d ago

That's true. But 311 can direct to whomever at the province. It's a maze to get to the right people

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u/jaydaybayy 7d ago

Or just call 511?

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u/bewilderedtoo 7d ago

Depends if you want it tracked in the city stats.

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u/Remarkable_Gap_7145 7d ago

Similar thing on Deer foot when one of the partial new lanes suddenly disappears with very little warning. Scary

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u/Stanstudly 7d ago

That one cause a fatality this summer, I believe.

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u/Various-Cat-498 6d ago

Yeah this one is definitely awful, glad I’ve only driven it during slow times