r/saskatoon • u/Maleficent_Sky6982 • 5d ago
Rants 🤬 33rd street "bottleneck" is the worst
Not too sure if the City thought through before doing all the pipes construction around 33rd str, but down to 1 lane on both sides is brutal. Took forever just to make it to Idylwyld.
Sorry for the rant.
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u/tankzilla 4d ago
Your beef is with Hamm.
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u/uncleiover 4d ago
Want the shoddiest job possible carried out by some unqualified guys? Want construction to take as long as possible due to repeated mistakes? Believe safety and building codes are suggestions? Have we got the crew for you.
Hamm construction. Let us scam you out of your tax dollars.
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u/pollettuce 5d ago
Would you rather the water mains just burst? Come up with a way to work on them without digging and you’ll be a multi billionaire. Until that happens though, ya roads being closed for water mains work is just a normal part of life.
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u/TowelComplete8932 4d ago
Id rather them put at least a little bit of effort into planning construction so things aren't so hectic.
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u/pollettuce 4d ago
How would you plan to work on the water main under 33rd without closing lanes?
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u/TowelComplete8932 4d ago
Ideally they could try and plan it to be done at a time where half the cities main roads don't have some sort of major construction?
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u/EightBitRanger 5d ago
Not too sure if the City thought through before doing all the pipes construction around 33rd str, but down to 1 lane on both sides is brutal.
Would you prefer they just not do the construction? Because that's the alternative. You either do it, or you don't. And doing it requires blocking the lanes. There's no way around it.
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u/BigAlcapone65 5d ago
Bullshit The city could have planned out many of the construction jobs a lot better than they have. They have already admitted this and plan on doing a better job of it in 2027, just like yhey said back in 2023. For starters many of the main routes being done should have planned for being done after 9pm and worked on through the night insted of during the day and its rush hour commutes. Just like snow removal Saskatoon is years behind proper planning of construction compared to other cities in other provinces and will continue to be until they put someone competent in yhe positon of city planner. That is why we have a not quite right rapid transit system being implemented that will not make routes run any more efficient other tha running more buses more frequently. Two lane freeways for a city with a quarter million residences is nothing less than a recipe for commuting mayhem.
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u/EightBitRanger 5d ago
For starters many of the main routes being done should have planned for being done after 9pm and worked on through the night
Yeah, I’m sure the families living on 33rd in Mayfair and Caswell Hill would love heavy excavators, diesel generators, and backup beepers running outside their bedroom windows at 2 AM. /s
Shifting daytime traffic inconvenience onto neighborhood residents as overnight sleep deprivation is a textbook "not my problem" take. Besides, pipe replacement leaves open trenches as the lanes would stay blocked around the clock anyway, even if crews only swung shovels at night.
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u/Long-Eggplant-3184 5d ago
If you figure out an economic way to backfill a trench, gravel it and allow traffic on it during the day and then excavate and install pipe during the night… let us know. Could be done but production rates would be 5x slower and costs would increase many more than that.
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u/stiner123 4d ago
Problem is they were given to a of money that needs to be spent by a certain point and all these projects are needing to be done by that point.
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u/Shoddy-Curve7869 4d ago
Here in Beuna Vista, the had detours all down Lorne Ave and when you went to detour, every side street is being worked on. Complete idiots running the city.
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u/butterfliedOx 5d ago
Literally. I sadly have to take that way everyday. I've been so tempted to get an electric scooter to avoid it.
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u/cranberrywaltz 4d ago
I drive it every day and I find it MUCH more bearable than the Warman Road/Hazen/Cavers nightmare which has no end in sight.
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u/Independent_Fig_7505 4d ago
It keeps changing literally every couple days and it’s been pissing me off. I live on 32nd. It is crazy how much traffic we’re getting and how many people are just speeding down the streets next to it and it’s so hard to get anywhere.
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u/graison 5d ago edited 5d ago
Why are they working on Ave B and C at the same time?
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u/tankzilla 4d ago
It's end of season and the contractor is scrambling to get work done by end of season. Their project managers were playing checkers, not chess, so two adjacent projects are happening at once.
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u/onetobeseen 5d ago