and its to snow heavily at the weekend...

this won't be finished this year

my understanding is it is the section around to Macleoad trail is the problem??..if so why dont they open the section to Glenmore or 114th Street at least?

Because the province isn't stupid enough to take responsibility for an unfinished road. Don't blame them. I wouldn't take possession of an unfinished house.

This doesn't look encouraging either: http://www.calgaryherald.com/news/ca...671/story.html

Obviously the Herald is trying to figure out what is going on too.

If they haven't finished by the 15th it's going to start getting rather awkward because of the way contracts are phrased for winter work and insurance, etc. They were still doing ground works last time I drove past and it was well below freezing, which is a very dodgy thing to do.

All of the barriers and machinery has been removed from the NE/NW sections which i drive but the tarmac hasn't been finished

I think the problem here is that they waited until the day the road was suppose to open to announce that it would not open on that day...the partnership and the city of Calgary would have known long before this that it would not be ready by October 1st..they could easily at the end of August postponed the opening until say 1st Dec...rather than just keep saying it should open in a few days...every week..would have saved all the further embarrassment.

I heard ages ago there was basically no chance it would open on October 1st, well over a year go so I've no idea how they could mislead people to this extent, I kept hearing November 1st because of the hassle caused with the Seton Blvd. exit and the bridge over Deerfoot.

But how can they carry on working in this weather, they need to spread asphalt and there's only one day with a high above 5 C forecast for the next two weeks and that will only be for an hour or two.

The steps in the road surface are bad under perfect driving conditions but below freezing it's not funny.

Ah, perfect weather for civil engineering...

http://www.calgaryherald.com/Contrac...586/story.html

Will open today apparently

http://www.calgaryherald.com/news/ca...411/story.html

So basically it's a fudge, they can't finish the paving because of the weather so it's going to open as-is, which means all those steps in the pavement along what was formally 22X at the exits and on-ramps will remain until May probably. Which in essence makes it only partly usable, because there's no way I'd drive through some of those exits with snow and ice on them, you can't see the steps, BANG.

I always laugh when they blame the weather, duh, it's Calgary.

It was two years ago I heard that October 1st 2013 was completely unrealistic, so apparently a fine of $3.5 million makes more sense than overtime???

And this is comparatively easy compared to the SW section, which is the most important bit!

they cant blame the weather either as what he said is BS..Winter 2011-12 was the 2nd mildest on record and one of the driest...July 2012-Sept 2012 was the hottest and driest on record in Calgary.

They finished the work on the 22x bridge over Macleod Trail during a very cold spell too. How do they explain that then?

I was very pleased as my tyres were taking a real beating travelling over all those bumps. They always seem far more severe than I recall they were in the UK

I just bought some new tires so no way am I using those ramps until spring.

I used it today. I went from Deerfoot to Deerfoot on the east side and it was all fine. I don't know how it looks between Deerfoot and Macleod.

i drove down it on Friday afternoon after work..at 4.30pm...took me 10 mins to get from 16th Avenue down the 52nd street...if i had taken Deerfoot on a Friday previously at that time it would take me anything up to an hour or more to make the same journey.

Are the ramps on 52nd St SE still a mess?