General Construction Updates

[Mountain Man]

Good planting will hide it for most of the year, and snow piles should hide it for the rest.

 

[gsunnyg]

Looks like in that area the ground will be brought up to the flood barrier with a wall taking over closer to Chinatown. Agreed that I will miss the full openness of that area once the barriers are completed.

Downtown Flood Barrier & Eau Claire Promenade

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I just hate when our city plants grass It's either dead or covered in snow for 80% of the year. Plant some evergreen shrubs or something. Anything but more grass.

 

[UrbanWarrior]

Eau Claire and Riverwalk….

 

[1875]

anyone know, does the city just destroy all the plants they pull up or are they reused?

 

[haltcatchfire]

anyone know, does the city just destroy all the plants they pull up or are they reused?

Are any of them alive to begin with?

 

[1875]

that pathway was quite nice, plants were maturing, maybe around 10yrs old.

 

[Surrealplaces]

anyone know, does the city just destroy all the plants they pull up or are they reused?

I believe they try to replant or re-use them. Whether they survive the transplant is another thing.

 

[Joborule]

Going back to the 16th ave discussion, I wonder if giving it the 17th Ave SE treatment would help the area? 16the Ave in that area would probably be better suited having two through lanes rather than three. Having the MAX Orange have it's own median transitway could be something that would make the corridor more urban and improve transit at the same time? It would prevent on street parking outside of rush hour though, which is something that probably withholds it's potential tremendously also.

 

[darwink]

^ during the MAX BRT study, I believe the projected travel time savings for dedicated lanes versus what was implemented was minimal, at much much higher cost.

Slip and skip lanes can do amazing things when the road isn't gridlocked, just moderately congested at a few intersections.

 

[Disraeli]

That's surprising to me that they determined it would be a minimal difference. If I remember correctly, the MAX Orange through 16th is pretty much your bog standard mixed traffic bus route apart from better shelters and fewer stops. I imagine it can get pretty slow when traffic is bogged down without dedicated bus infrastructure.

 

[darwink]

That's surprising to me that they determined it would be a minimal difference. If I remember correctly, the MAX Orange through 16th is pretty much your bog standard mixed traffic bus route apart from better shelters and fewer stops. I imagine it can get pretty slow when traffic is bogged down without dedicated bus infrastructure.

Drive the route. There are lots of intersection skips, where the bus gets to pass a wave of traffic and move first.

 

[Disraeli]

I've driven 16th west of Deerfoot plenty of times since MAX was launched and I don't remember seeing a single que jump lane or any piece of infrastructure for buses.

 

[darwink]

 

[Mountain Man]

anyone know, does the city just destroy all the plants they pull up or are they reused?

I would expect most are mulched or composted.

 

[Surrealplaces]

8th Ave cycle track improvements. Moving to permanent separation