I skyped with Neil tonight and he asked why I haven’t written many blogs lately and I told him that nothing had pissed me off too much. That is not necessarily true, because something had grinded my gears lately (literally): road construction.
How fucking bad is it that we have to drive all winter with ice, snow, exhaust and stupid fucking drivers, yet come summer, when the roads are clear; we must endure stoppage, after stoppage due to road construction? Red Skeleton, the great comedian, once said about Edmonton: “It’s a great city… if they ever finish it.” That about sums it up. I defy you to travel on any main thourough fare in the city without having to deal with RC. It is a joke. I understand the whole winter/cold/snow/freeze/defrost/ problem that generally fucks up our streets on a regular basis, but I don’t care. I am tired of RC.
Here are some of my biggest complaints about RC:
1. Speed limit – there should be a rule against having a construction zone speed limit sign up when there is no one working. They threaten you with double fines for speeding and then there is no one there working. If that is the case, why don’t they just put those fucking signs everywhere. If they are going to scare you into driving the speed limit, just threaten people everywhere with double fines. They could make a lot of money that way.
2. How about if when there are people working, somebody really does fucking work. I am confident that in every road construction there is a nine to one ratio of non - workers to workers. It occurs to me that it is usually the youngest guy working and the old farts standing around discussing/bullshitting/observing. I am pretty sure that we could cut down the time involved in finishing a RC job ten fold if somebody actually does some fucking work. And the fucking money those guys are making for standing around. It’s a good life…
3. Here’s a little hint for you construction guys: put up signs that the lane is going to end a little more than a foot from the end. It is so much fun to be driving along and suddenly your lane ends and you have to beg/bully your way into the other lane. It’s not hard, just put up a fucking sign 1/2/3 kilometers before the problem. I read signs. I’m not sure others do, but I do; and after all this is all about me!
4. Can someone tell me how they can close the bridge by Riverside golf course for a whole year and now during the summer, they have a one way road, which makes you sit there and wait. They couldn’t have finished the fucking job in one year? Maybe more guys should stand around looking at each other. Fucking guys!
5. My, isn’t Old Scona Road wonderful? WTF are they doing there? And what are the odds that they will be finished by November… ya, zero.
6. Will the Anthony Henday ever be finished? It is such a great road until Terwilliger and then it becomes a fucking parking lot.
7. I know that it will get worse. Come about October 1st, the city will review their bugets for road repair and see that they have got tons of money left over, so they begin a shit-load worth of projects, with no hope of finishing before winter comes. And then fucking snow flies.
We live in the asshole of the world.
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