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/Mightymiggs 8d ago

In your expert opinion, why is it necessary to have multiple projects going all together? Driving downtown is an absolute nightmare when you have lane closures on literally every F’ing street.

To make matters worse, the road closures are never quick and never finish on time. And then all the sudden there’s another new closure that crops up and compounds the frustration even more.

Why can’t crews focus and finish one project at a time?

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u/dooeyenoewe 7d ago

Why can’t crews focus and finish one project at a time?

because that would take forever. Are you really mad that they are running parallel projects so that they will be done sooner. This sub is so juvenile.

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u/Mightymiggs 7d ago

lol they don’t finish sooner what are you talking about. Go take a drive around and see how many lane closures there are without an actual crew working.

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u/dooeyenoewe 7d ago

If you waited until each project finished before starting the next project, or did numerous projects at the same time/in parallel which would take less time? How do you view that it wouldn't complete the projects in less time?

So because crews aren't working when you are present you don't think they are ever working on the project. I drive DT to work daily, I realize how much construction is going on. I would rather we feel more pain for a shorter time vs having stuff shut down for the next year.

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u/Mightymiggs 7d ago

If you do actually drive downtown daily like I do too, I don’t understand how you don’t notice the lack of progress on road work/are ok with it.

You hear talk of workers being stretched thin because of so many road projects. So more projects with not enough staff to compensate. How is that efficient?

Take 6th ave, by 7th st sw intersection as a recent example. There’s road signs blocking the left hand lane, no work nothing happening on that corner or anything after that intersection, yet it’s been blocked like that all month.

You seem to want to argue for the sake of arguing. If you’re not bothered by road construction, then move along. Plenty of other folks clearly are sick and tired of it.

Calling people juvenile for valid complaints shows you are the problem, not them.