[constance_chlore]

Doing it nice should not take so long, 4 years is too long for most businesses to stay afloat, it also puts any investment by businesses looking to set up shop on hold. Like I said before, a street is only as good as the services available along the street. There is no need to shoot ourselves in the foot.

Do you have any concrete reason to think it'll take four years, or is that just speculation?

 

[itom987]

Since they are using concrete to form all the benches and planters, what are they going to do if someone damages those features? Will they make 'temporary' fixes with asphalt that end up being permanent? It would be much easier to unbolt the damaged features from the sidewalk and replace with new ones that would cost a fraction of what it will cost to reform cement.

 

[itom987]

Do you have any concrete reason to think it'll take four years, or is that just speculation?

Im going from what they managed to build this summer which is only one side of the street on 2 blocks. I know that some utility work needed to get done and this is besides that work.

 

[constance_chlore]

Im going from what they managed to build this summer which is only one side of the street on 2 blocks. I know that some utility work needed to get done and this is besides that work.

I might suggest that you wait two months to see what's actually built by then rather than speculating.

 

[chrisvazquez7]

Also 114 Street - 117 Street is 3 blocks.

 

[itom987]

I walked there yesterday and stand by what i say.

 

[positive1]

I walked there yesterday and stand by what i say.

Comment on 2025 progress, at end of construction season 2025.
They are still building.

 

[kcantor]

“They are still building.”

Yes, they are. I am liking the finished product (at least those few blocks that are finished) but the proof of the pudding will be in how they are maintained and what they look like a few years after completion.

Having said that, from start to completion by the time they get to 124 Street, the construction of just this phase of Jasper Avenue’s upgrading will have taken longer to complete than it took to twin the Trans Mountain Pipeline all the way from Edmonton to Burnaby..

 

[Gronk!]

NE corner at Jasper/116 St - staging area

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[Gronk!]

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[johnnyboy]

Can someone explain picture #2 above, where they have the asphalt on the concrete around the drain? That can't be finished, right?

Also, gas at 134 downtown? Eeek.

 

[TAS]

Can someone explain picture #2 above, where they have the asphalt on the concrete around the drain? That can't be finished, right?

Also, gas at 134 downtown? Eeek.

That place is always the most expensive. On 109st & 100Ave, it was $1.21.9

 

[mcr]

Can someone explain picture #2 above, where they have the asphalt on the concrete around the drain? That can't be finished, right?

Also, gas at 134 downtown? Eeek.

Those are usually a temporary solution when the road isn't at final grade yet but is opened up, it protects the concrete that juts out for the drain. Helps with not being damaged by cars driving over the hard edge (both the cars tires, and the concrete itself). Once final grade is laid, it would be flush.

 

[positive1]

Those are usually a temporary solution when the road isn't at final grade yet but is opened up, it protects the concrete that juts out for the drain. Helps with not being damaged by cars driving over the hard edge (both the cars tires, and the concrete itself). Once final grade is laid, it would be flush.

One lift of asphalt for a year or two - lets any settlement show - then top lift of asphalt levels out any of that minor settlement. Or they might do top lift over the whole width of the road this year, after they have finished bottom lift on the south side.

 

[johnnyboy]

So in that photo I referenced, they will lay the asphalt on top of the cement?