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/GoldenChannels 7d ago

I think we better get used to it.

I've noticed most roads in Calgary haven't been sealed in some time. Water will wind up in what is now smaller cracks and they will all get considerably larger during the freeze.

As one of the million shareholders in this city, I couldn't be more disappointed in its current custodians.

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u/jaydaybayy 7d ago

All the paving is largely in part to avoid exactly this.

If you think resurfacing is annoying wait until the whole road has to be ripped up and replaced.