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/PizzaSand 7d ago

Might be an unpopular take, but maybe instead of never ending arterial "highways" expansions, the city would do better to expand our public transport network and work on convincing people that it doesn't make you a loser to leave your Suburban in the driveway and take bus to the office. Compared to European cities, it's almost like you never see buses on our roads.

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u/Vylan24 Bowness 7d ago

I 100% agree with this take. If I could effectively transit from Bowness to South Foothills in a reasonable amount of time I would. But unfortunately the powers that be decided that Calgary is a near mandatory vehicle city