Thunder Bay – Tearing You A New Manhole
You can see just how closely our Engineering Department monitors contractor operations. Seems that this whole manhole bruhaha caught our highly paid City engineers by surprise. They actually had to drive out to the manholes in question and LOOK at them. And then DRIVE over them. Poor, poor engineers. No representative from the Engineering Department […]
Thunder Bay – No Reason For The Delay
Work started on May 1, 2013. Work will stop around November 18, 2013. Next year, surface course paving will be required. Likely, all manholes will also have to be raised next year as this winter’s snowplowing will require manholes to be flush with the binder surface. Why is this project not being completed […]
Thunder Bay – First Anniversary Shut Down
I understand that the section of Algoma Street between Cornwall and Bay is scheduled for full closure in the near future. Some work is going to be done on the one year old street. Last year, the street torn up for months. Closed for months. Local businesses had a tough time. It will be interesting […]
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 – 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 – Will They Ever Learn To Give A Shit?
Court Street closed to traffic. Why? Paving work on Van Horne completed. Contractor is gone. No workers on site. So why was the street still closed to traffic? This is why drivers in Thunder Bay don’t obey these types of signs. Often, they are left up for no reason. And city staff never checks on […]
Thunder Bay – The Cycle of Cycles
Creating a perfect situation to get doored. Is this design safer than not having a bike lane at all? I don’t think so. Look, I support anything that will get the bicycles off of the sidewalk but I do not see that happening. Not at all. In fact, I think things are moving in the […]
Thunder Bay – Whose The Boss?
When the Environment Department crews dig a hole in the street to repair a watermain break, they temporarily cover the gavel with asphalt. I use the word temporarily loosely here as this temporary asphalt patch can be in place for almost a year or more. This asphalt patch eliminates the requirement for ongoing road maintenance […]
Thunder Bay – No Supervision
Who is out there looking out for your interests on road construction work? The Engineering Department? Well… When drivers see signs up for no reason, they grow to ignore those signs. That happened on Arundel Street. It happened here on Algoma Street. I watched at least one vehicle drive passed the road closed sign and […]
Thunder Bay – Cumberland Street And Red River Road
Back in 2011, the intersection of Red River Road and Cumber Street was reconstructed. The work was part of the Algoma Street sewer and water line replacement contract. (Previous post here and here ) So now, just under two years later, the ground around a fire hydrant seems to have settled. Including curb and gutter. It is […]