Regina Construction IV

[gecho111]

Got around to several spots today. https://imgur.com/a/2jFQTUG

I was going to get some shots of the west side of the Cargill site but it is in shade in the morning so I figured I'd go back in the afternoon in the next few days. Curious about the rail work south of the site I went down the Center Road grid to RgeRd 2211 to take a look from south of the tracks. They are building a big oval of rail down there so that would be the extra land they bought.

I got a soft case for the controller with the phone attached, which makes getting setup faster.


And some Saturday pics: https://imgur.com/a/amG0DKH I started early but the wind picked up sooner than forecast.

[The mayor]

Originally Posted by gecho111

Got around to several spots today. https://imgur.com/a/2jFQTUG

I was going to get some shots of the west side of the Cargill site but it is in shade in the morning so I figured I'd go back in the afternoon in the next few days. Curious about the rail work south of the site I went down the Center Road grid to RgeRd 2211 to take a look from south of the tracks. They are building a big oval of rail down there so that would be the extra land they bought.

I got a soft case for the controller with the phone attached, which makes getting setup faster.


And some Saturday pics: https://imgur.com/a/amG0DKH I started early but the wind picked up sooner than forecast.

Thank you so much for posting. You are much appreciated. There’s a lot more going on In Regina, when people know the city is booming And they say, The mayor hasn’t done anything. She has done more than all the Mayors Put together except for Pat. He was amazing. Keep up the good work.

[RobD]

Originally Posted by gecho111

Got around to several spots today. https://imgur.com/a/2jFQTUG

I was going to get some shots of the west side of the Cargill site but it is in shade in the morning so I figured I'd go back in the afternoon in the next few days. Curious about the rail work south of the site I went down the Center Road grid to RgeRd 2211 to take a look from south of the tracks. They are building a big oval of rail down there so that would be the extra land they bought.

I got a soft case for the controller with the phone attached, which makes getting setup faster.


And some Saturday pics: https://imgur.com/a/amG0DKH I started early but the wind picked up sooner than forecast.

Thanks for posting these. I had forgotten just how flat Regina is!

[gecho111]

I got some closer shots of the water reservoirs since no one was working there today.

https://imgur.com/a/yx3XRtR

A few from Monday, it was too windy to do much flying
https://imgur.com/a/szJSwal


I'm starting to go through my galleries and mark them public so they appear in the imgur profile so its actually possible to find older galleries. Once they are public I can't add images without making them hidden again, so I'd usually not bother publishing since I sometimes add to existing galleries. The general imgur audience also don't seem to care for my galleries, oh well.

[gecho111]

Not going to be a great week for drone flying with all the wind. I went out early but the wind had already picked up. I noticed in Cargill plant rail photos I took last week that there was a line headed over to the north of the CP yard. So I went over there to take a look. Some land work being done. I took a video but by the time the pass was finished the battery was low enough to trigger an auto return, and was very low by the time it fought the wind all the way back.

I sped the video up to 5x since there's not a lot going on in the video.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BVgzUFfcmPY

[Stormer]

Construction begins on the Skuare.

https://www.cjme.com/2024/10/16/cons...r-event-space/

[gecho111]

Added a few more pictures to this gallery: https://imgur.com/gallery/too-windy-...flying-szJSwal

[LittleBoy]

Framing is nearly complete at NW 14th and Rae. They’re currently about halfway done the second floor, would imagine they’ll be done by end of month. Finish up the interior over winter/spring, occupancy summer or fall 2025 I imagine?

The excavation looks to be either complete or nearly complete at SE College and Broad. Not sure what they’ll be able to do over winter.

Early site/foundation work at NW College and St John.

Very early site work at SE 15th and St John. Don’t even have a fence up around the site yet.

[gecho111]

Pinkie Road is finally open. I expect it will see a ton of traffic since using McCarthy to get to Dewdney is a pain from the NW edge of the city.

[pappcam]

Originally Posted by gecho111

Pinkie Road is finally open. I expect it will see a ton of traffic since using McCarthy to get to Dewdney is a pain from the NW edge of the city.

Is the McCarthy bridge some sort of retirement project for some company?? Seriously, there's been construction there for years.

[gecho111]

Originally Posted by pappcam

Is the McCarthy bridge some sort of retirement project for some company?? Seriously, there's been construction there for years.

I think some of the construction there was when I complained that despite widening the sidewalks so pedestrians and cyclists could share it, they didn't actually provide any ramps for cyclists to transition to and from the road (as the road drops from 3 to 2 lanes in both directions just for the bridge). So the next year they cut out 4 sections of sidewalk and added ramps. They also moved a path over to a ramp, which caught me by surprise in the dark one night. With the path that had been there for a year gone I found myself barreling down the embankment on loose dirt.

Quite the poor planning there for pipe work as well. They relined the sewage trunk. Now they are adding an additional one over to Regina Avenue in multiple phases. Phase 1 only went between the pump station and Wascana Creek, Phase 2 across the creek to the RCMP depot, so more restrictions next year. Plan mentions Kent Street so they will probably rip up that entire road to make room for the huge pipe.

https://www.regina.ca/transportation...ect/index.html

[gecho111]

Some Cargill Plant drone pics. My computer is chugging away on a couple of videos. One of them I messed up by forgetting to remove the lens cover before flying 4 km.
https://imgur.com/a/ZNgQoFV

Blurry flight along the Cargill rail spur route.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zsG-W-roufU

Snow Geese out at the sewage plant
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mOxlZIhd5Z0

And a low / high pass of the west side of the Cargill plant.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VzrHt0RFEsU


I wanted to do a time lapse this morning, but it went pear shaped. The wind was far too high so I wouldn't have got a stable image. I couldn't get the shot I wanted at max altitude looking straight down so I would have needed to move and do an angled shot. Then 3 minutes into the flight the controller lost contact while the drone was 400 feet up and wouldn't reconnect. The drone just stayed up there for at least 10 minutes, I could hear it but I couldn't see where it was. When the battery got low it finally decided to come down on its own, fortunately it managed to hold position near the launch point. The controller started beeping when the drone battery was low, so it must have still had some connection even though there was nothing on the phone screen. If that happens again I'll have to see if I can still control it even if there is no video. And I forgot my spare batteries at home, not that I would have flown it again with that wind.

I was thinking about how I might plan out potential views from home, and quickly thought of Google Earth. Unfortunately you can't set above ground level altitude directly, but there is a workaround using placemarks. Or I can manually keep track of the difference between elevation and eye altitude. Looking at a few places I've been it looks close enough to get a good idea. For one area I want to do a video of I should be able to get an extra 20 meters of height by launching from the top of an exit ramp.

[Udon'tknow]

Not sure if any pics have been posted but it is looking almost complete and looks really nice from the outside. They did a good job landscaping as well which is often a miss with Saskatchewan projects:

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[one_brick_at_a_time]

Looks fantastic!

[UrbanClimate]

↑ agreed -- it's a beautiful facility

[gecho111]

I switched to my faster bike rode to White City and got some shots of the traffic circle / cardlock south of the bypass diverging diamond interchange. Drop bars are so much faster going into the wind, narrower high pressure slick tires also help.

https://imgur.com/a/6FznP4G

[Stormer]

Originally Posted by gecho111

I switched to my faster bike rode to White City and got some shots of the traffic circle / cardlock south of the bypass diverging diamond interchange. Drop bars are so much faster going into the wind, narrower high pressure slick tires also help.

https://imgur.com/a/6FznP4G

That is a lot of infrastructure for a cardlock. Are they also building a C-store or perhaps a full truck stop? I wonder who else will be building out there?

[The mayor]

Originally Posted by gecho111

I switched to my faster bike rode to White City and got some shots of the traffic circle / cardlock south of the bypass diverging diamond interchange. Drop bars are so much faster going into the wind, narrower high pressure slick tires also help.

https://imgur.com/a/6FznP4G

Your posts are much appreciated. It just goes to show how much Regina is booming Construction everywhere

[gecho111]

Originally Posted by Stormer

That is a lot of infrastructure for a cardlock. Are they also building a C-store or perhaps a full truck stop? I wonder who else will be building out there?

There's a sign north of the service road to the east for Deer Run Business Park. Doing a search I got a hit for that location but with a different name, might have been a previous iteration. Shows all 4 corners around the intersection available for development.

https://scre.ca/property/tell-crossing-business-park/

[RobD]

[QUOTE=Udon'tknow;10304907]Not sure if any pics have been posted but it is looking almost complete and looks really nice from the outside. They did a good job landscaping as well which is often a miss with Saskatchewan projects:

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This is a nice looking facility. Thanks for posting the pics. Kudos to the architectural firm that designed this.