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100st curbs in place from 83 to 80 Ave.
From 80 to 76 Ave it will be MUP but that work hasn't started yet.
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This is in Calgary but thought it was worth posting because the line painting job is baffling. The traffic calming median almost looks too big for vehicles to navigate with parked cars - winter will be more of a challenge.

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TAS said:
100st curbs in place from 83 to 80 Ave.
From 80 to 76 Ave it will be MUP but that work hasn't started yet.
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Why are we not pouring real concrete medians????

Surely this isn’t that much cheaper, especially when you factor in how easily they break.

These will be easier to remove this way…
 
thommyjo said:
Why are we not pouring real concrete medians????

Surely this isn’t that much cheaper, especially when you factor in how easily they break.

These will be easier to remove this way…
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When they did neighbourhood renewal a couple of years ago they could have extended the permanent concrete one more block to 82ave at least.
 
Some updates from city admin - several delays in the active transportation work.

The MUP along the southside boulevard of 107Ave (from 163 to 131 streets) that was originally scheduled for 2025 has been postponed until 2027 to avoid adding any other construction. (This is certainly understandable).

Regarding the 100st work from 83 to 80 Ave, the wrong pin-on curbs, which are used to delineate the bike lane, were installed by the contractor and had to be replaced which caused some of the delay there. However this same issue, says the city, means the planned pin on curb construction of Victoria Park Rd is on hold until 2026. So it will go back to bikes/pedestrians sharing a narrow sidewalk unless cyclists want to ride on this road during the winter. These curbs that the contractor were going to use do not match specifications and would impede drainage and cause ice buildup in the winter.

Kingsway Ave MUP from 113 to 122st will also be delayed until 2026 - not surprising since it hasn't started yet. I also rode down Fort Rd yesterday and they are still not finished that MUP project from 2024 (south of 137Ave to Belevedere). Regarding 113st/Kingsway Ave - the crossing light will be installed in 2026.

The same faulty pin on curbs also impacts the 96st work as well from 119-124Ave - but the city is still making that a 2025 priority to get the new product there prior to end of construction season.

This city team has had a difficult time meeting many of their construction targets since this funding was put in place.

Depending on the election result, these all may grind to a hault anyway.
 
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Some updates from city admin - several delays in the active transportation work.

The MUP along the southside boulevard of 107Ave (from 163 to 131 streets) that was originally scheduled for 2025 has been postponed until 2027 to avoid adding any other construction.

Regarding the 100st work from 83 to 80 Ave, the wrong pin-on curbs, which are used to delineate the bike lane, were installed by the contractor and had to be replaced which caused some of the delay there. However this same issue, says the city, means the planned pin on curb construction of Victoria Park Rd is on hold until 2026. So it will go back to bikes/pedestrians sharing a narrow sidewalk unless cyclists want to ride on this road during the winter. These curbs that the contractor were going to use do not match specifications and would impede drainage and cause ice buildup in the winter.

Kingsway Ave MUP from 113 to 122st will also be delayed until 2026 - not surprising since it hasn't started yet. I also rode down Fort Rd yesterday and they are still not finished that MUP project from 2024 (south of 137Ave to Belevedere). Regarding 113st/Kingsway Ave - the crossing light will be installed in 2026.

The same faulty pin on curbs also impacts the 96st work as well from 119-124st - but the city is still making that a 2025 priority to get the new product there prior to end of construction season.

This city team has had a difficult time meeting many of their construction targets since this funding was put in place.

Depending on the election result, these all may grind to a hault anyway.
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Thanks for the update, been wondering why there wasn't any movement on the permanent install on Vic Park Rd.

Really though HOW does this happen. Seriously. Pin-on curbs are about as basic of a pre-cast barrier you can get. City should have an exact engineered spec in the tender documents that the contractor just has to send to their pre-cast supplier and voila. If the contractor were to use a different spec, it should have never touched a road surface without signoff from the CoE project manager, and it's unclear to me why this wasn't stopped immediately upon install of the clearly wrong pin-on curbs. But even after that, if drainage and ice buildup are an issue just have the contractor bring in a concrete cutting company to saw in some drainage pockets. And more importantly, not sure whose brother-in-law's company was hired to screw this up, but please blacklist them from ever touching another City project.
 
I can tolerate delays.

If a bunch of routes do get scrapped though through decisions made by the new council I will be sad. ☹️

I guess a reminder to go vote and bug your friends/family to vote for candidates who support active transportation.
 
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I can tolerate delays.

If a bunch of routes do get scrapped though through decisions made by the new council I will be sad. ☹️

I guess a reminder to go vote and bug your friends/family to vote for candidates who support active transportation.
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Kingsway needs to happen, there are zero decent alternatives to biking to anything along it currently and the existing sidewalks are garbage.
 
fromyeg said:
I can tolerate delays.

If a bunch of routes do get scrapped though through decisions made by the new council I will be sad. ☹️

I guess a reminder to go vote and bug your friends/family to vote for candidates who support active transportation.
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We should not tolerate delays.

These are simple projects compared to most city infrastructure.

Having sat in on a few conversations with some of the people working on these new paths, I’m not surprised by the delays. There was little sense of experience, competency, or excellence.

Depending on both the city election, and province’s continued meddling, we could see many of the not yet completed projects be cancelled. 2-3 year delays are not reasonable. This isn’t an LRT. It’s mostly some asphalt on a grassy ROW with a few light post relocations or tree removals….or it’s paint and pin-on curbs/speed bumps.
 
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