A laugh for the day

[Delphinus]

Sad but true.

7. Road construction is permanent and continuous. Detour barrels are moved around during the middle of the night to make the next day's driving a bit more exciting, but nothing ever gets finished, and more construction starts everyday.

I actually have a theory about this one. I think that the city dictates a mandatory "start date" for a road construction contract in their bids to tender but don't specify a completion date. Thus, the road contractors start projects all over the place, work on it for a little while, then leave it - to start another project somewhere else, leaving unfinished projects all over the dang place and nobody working on hardly any of them.

[Zylumn]

The City of Calgary probably pays out 90% of the road contractors job when they start it and the final 10% when it is completed.

[Delphinus]

I'm sure of it. It might not be that skewed but I do think they have a payment milestone unbalance. There's way more projects than there are crews to work on them. It drives me nuts to have all these construction zones and not a single soul working on them.

[Slipstream]

You think its bad there?.. Constuction in Vancouver is double that in Calgary.

[Der_Iron_Chef]

Originally Posted by marie

If you actually stop at a yellow light, you will be rear ended, cussed out, and possibly shot.

Hah! So true.

Originally Posted by Slipstream

You think its bad there?.. Constuction in Vancouver is double that in Calgary.

I doubt that. We only have two seasons here: summer and construction.

[skylord]

My favorite.....they start paving a road and before they get done there are at least 3 crews following them digging holes and putting patches in so we don't get used to having roads without potholes.

Scott

[Murminator]

Yup all sounds about right except this one

6. If you are looking for work, look no further. Average wage is $15.60/hour.

Wouldn't even walk through the door for that, I think thats lower than minimum wage Tim Hortons pays higher than that.