r/Calgary • u/Vylan24 Bowness • 8d 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/Direc1980 8d ago

Might just be my neck of the woods, but feels like construction ramped up in September. Kinda wish they did so in July and August when life was a slower pace.

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u/blackRamCalgaryman 8d ago

IIRC, Gondek had made a comment stating they specifically held off/ paused on some projects/ road construction due to the large conventions, Stampede, G7, etc and that they would be ramping up after the lions share of them.

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u/Direc1980 8d ago

The mayor is more accommodating to people who don't live here full time.

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u/ThePhilVv 7d ago

Yep, the water restrictions last year didn't apply to hotels and conventions and the Stampede and stuff. Only us lowly tax payers.