The city's fantastic road construction logjams leave little room for error for anyone. Sorry you had to put up with that shit, and good on the lady for realizing the issue and helping to solve the problem. For everyone.
Sorry you had to experience this but the real problem is the constancy of road construction here and whereby they now feel it OK to keep lanes or entire roads closed to construction for years thereby making driving a nightmare for everybody even when there aren't traffic breakdowns. The problem isn't your vehicle breaking down. Its every road project lasting an inordinate amount of time and choking off commuter routes.
North America inordinately suffers this phenomenon where roads are seen as unionist job shop creating places and cities dream on about all their beautification and cycle lane and transit projects forever reconfiguring the same roads and almost constantly. I mean its hilarious even to consider that the city had streetcars run on where lots of the LRT projects are a century later.
I've seen them do the neighbourhood renewal projects, where they "prep" the area the year before (they're currently prepping ours for next years renewal), by upgrading sewers, water lines, etc. Then, the next year, they do all the sidewalk, curb and paving work. And then, amazingly, they come in the next year or years after and dig up more stuff, tearing into the new asphalt and concrete. I have no idea what they could be working on that shouldn't have been done in the initial prep work. Just a complete waste of resources and incompetent planning.
The endless construction makes driving a shitshow. But I think it's part of a bigger problem, and a little bit more sinister than just incompetent planning/bureaucracy. Some of our elected officials want to make driving around the city more difficult to promote their preferred means of transportation. I don't want to get deep into this discussion as this is not the right place for it, but it's pretty clear to me that's what they're doing. I'm fully in favor of implementing things like bike lanes if they can properly execute it. But it's pretty clear that they either can't, or are intentionally not.
Here most of this crap is done in election years to make it look like the elected officials are doing their jobs. Kind of like a kid that has a test and doesn't study until the night or morning before the test.
I thought I did about average with a score of 42, but in this day and age that apparently puts me at a Masters degree level of education. I thought of Joe Bauers in Idiocracy after seeing the results.
That really sucks. And that area is one of the many areas in Edmonton that city planners and contractors have given themselves total authority to shutdown with virtually no consideration for commuters. Edmonton needs its own Charbonneau Commission, because construction on city projects in this city is clearly a racket.
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And it's not just a short period of time in one area either. It's year after year after year.
Looks like a regular night at a Vegas 9.99 all you can eat buffet.
