Thunder Bay – Repair It In Your Driveway?
Further on the work being done to upgrade the pedestrian overpass. Appears City of Thunder Bay is looking at lots of options to cut departmental spending. Interesting. Nothing about urine cleanup. I understand that Tremclad covers rust but urine is a horse of a different colour. Like rust, urine does not sleep, so there is […]
Thunder Bay – Somewhat Satisfied
Cumberland Street. One lift of asphalt down. Long weekend. Lines were painted for safety. Good. Asphalt was placed in front of the manholes to allow vehicles to drive over them without damaging rims and tires. Somewhat good or is it fairly good? Placing asphalt so it forms a ramp all around the manhole would have […]
Thunder Bay – BFFs
Why is this work not part of the the four-laning of Golf Links Road contract? The Golf Links Road contract has pavement removal, paving, concrete and grading work as does this new project. Why two separate contracts? It has to be more expensive to do it this way? I thought City Hall was looking at […]
Thunder Bay – More On Van Horne
An update to the previous Van Horne Street post and its revisit post. Then there is the retaining wall. It has several cracks already as well as a misaligned form. Then there is the asphalt work. Not overly impressive. Most of the sidewalk was not replaced. The acceptability level of sidewalk condition is extremely […]
Thunder Bay – Drainage
As I have always said, water is the enemy of all infrastructure. Steel, asphalt, concrete, wood. It does not matter. Water will eventually break them all down. Drainage is the most important thing when constructing anything. It always needs to be addressed. Whether above or below ground, handling water is key. If idle hands are the devil’s […]