The Official Moncton, NB Project Thread

[JHikka]

Originally Posted by Scarface

Hope none of these 10 will be like the Killam Drive Roundabout since it seems there are still to many people who can't use it properly I'm sure if cops set up at the killam roundabout they could give out 100+ tickets.

Sounds like a user problem and not a design problem.

[MonctonRad]

Originally Posted by JHikka

Sounds like a user problem and not a design problem.

Indeed - the Killam roundabout did a great job of correcting an awkward five point intersection. I understand the rationale of roundabouts, and appreciate them, but am not an absolute convert. The Killam roundabout however is an excellent use of the technology.

Still, just the other week, I saw somebody going around the roundabout the wrong way.......

[Scarface]

Originally Posted by MonctonRad

Indeed - the Killam roundabout did a great job of correcting an awkward five point intersection. I understand the rationale of roundabouts, and appreciate them, but am not an absolute convert. The Killam roundabout however is an excellent use of the technology.

Still, just the other week, I saw somebody going around the roundabout the wrong way.......

Just one? you must have been going around durring a slow period. I still see people who live on Purdy either comming from the coliseum, and driving facing trafic to get there quicker, or they will try to cut in the Chubby's Variety parking lot if there comming from Ultramar. Also have seen people coming from Collishaw going either in the Greco parking, or using the left lane instead of the right, and they are heading down Killam towards Ultramar. Today alone there where 30 cars at least doing things like this. Ti'll a cop parked up at the Greco parking, and another at the Chubby's parking.

I think someone reported the idiots, and they decided to have a cop park there for public safety.

Some of the people I always see driving wrong on the roundabout showed us they actually do know how to use it properly. They should put up cameras there, and ticket anyone who uses the roundabout wrong causing a danger to themselves, and other motorist.

[Nashe]

Originally Posted by Scarface

I still see people who live on Purdy either coming from the coliseum, and driving facing trafic to get there quicker, or they will try to cut in the Chubby's Variety parking lot if there coming from Ultramar. Also have seen people coming from Collishaw going either in the Greco parking, or using the left lane instead of the right, and they are heading down Killam towards Ultramar. Today alone there where 30 cars at least doing things like this. Ti'll a cop parked up at the Greco parking, and another at the Chubby's parking.

There's no excuse for that. They saved literally 2 seconds of time.

Anyone else see a LOT more blatant stop-sign/red-light running lately? I was on Morton heading to Connaught and someone passed me on the left in the lane that would normally turn left to go down onto Wheeler. They got to the intersection/light at the top of the ramps and went right through, on the red, passing a line of stopped cars, before cutting back into the right lane on Connaught. The hell?

[David_99]

Originally Posted by Vorkuta

Anyone else see a LOT more blatant stop-sign/red-light running lately? I was on Morton heading to Connaught and someone passed me on the left in the lane that would normally turn left to go down onto Wheeler. They got to the intersection/light at the top of the ramps and went right through, on the red, passing a line of stopped cars, before cutting back into the right lane on Connaught. The hell?

I hate the turn only lane on that bridge. Impatient drivers will use it to bypass the traffic in the right lane and either blindly merge or drive straight through the intersection as you described. For my own sanity, I try to give them the benefit of the doubt since it's going towards the hospital. I tell myself "Don't get mad, maybe they have an medical emergency...". It rarely calms me though.

[L'homard]

The race every morning from the entrance to the U de M to the bridge, where those in the proper outside lane and those trying to sneak ahead in the inside lane race each other to the bridge, the one trying to get ahead of everyone vs the one trying to make sure no one cuts in front of him lol.
Better than NASCAR.

[Sandbagger]

My fav is the meat heads who take the right exit off Wheeler toward Berry Mills and illegally cut back left toward the Coliseum to bypass traffic during Wildcats games. Fines for that alone could fund a new RCMP station.

[Feneant]

I'm starting to be converted to roundabouts, once people figure them out and don't drive like idiots they do save time. Go take a drive to Charlottetown and turn on the bypass to head downtown instead of going up University. By the time you get downtown you've gone through 6 roundabouts, and these are on major roads. Being on major roads it does help with people going the wrong way (unless they really try to do it wrong) but you do see the odd person in the exiting lane deciding to drive though and putting others at risk.

I don't know if I am remembering correctly as this was a few years ago, but I believe they said something like Moncton only had 5 positions for patrol officers where 2 were empty and 1 was on leave. I'm probably wrong but considering how so many drivers break all kinds of laws with impunity there definitely can't be that many of them on the street.

[Scarface]

Originally Posted by Feneant

I'm starting to be converted to roundabouts, once people figure them out and don't drive like idiots they do save time. Go take a drive to Charlottetown and turn on the bypass to head downtown instead of going up University. By the time you get downtown you've gone through 6 roundabouts, and these are on major roads. Being on major roads it does help with people going the wrong way (unless they really try to do it wrong) but you do see the odd person in the exiting lane deciding to drive though and putting others at risk.

I don't know if I am remembering correctly as this was a few years ago, but I believe they said something like Moncton only had 5 positions for patrol officers where 2 were empty and 1 was on leave. I'm probably wrong but considering how so many drivers break all kinds of laws with impunity there definitely can't be that many of them on the street.

During the summer they ussually have 1 on foot, and at least 1 if not 2 cars on standby for Make model, and plate call outs with the violations.

[lirette]

Here's a well produced video highlighting all the business growth in the last few years in the GMA

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t58bIBN86x0

[BlackYear]

Here's something interesting about the hotel business in greater Moncton.

My brother is currently representing Team NB in the 2017 National Travelers Curling Club Championships in Kingston Ontario right now.
http://www.curling.ca/2017travelers/

Their curling club is from Beresford NB (basically Bathurst). Last Saturday all four of them drove to Moncton to catch their Sunday morning flight to to Ottawa via Porter. So they needed to book a 'low priced' hotel somewhere near the airport for their early morning flight. The lowest priced hotel they could find was the Dieppe Coastal Inn, which is pretty much now known as a roach motel. But, that's not the point of my posting.

So now the guys are planning their way back home on Saturday. Flight arrives back to Moncton on Saturday, same day as Santa Clause parade. Here's where it gets interesting. The nearest hotel available is in Bouctouche.

Yup, all hotels in the Moncton area are book solid. I couldn't believe it, so I searched Expedia for myslef. Sure enough, some rooms are popping up in Sackville, Cocagne, Shediac and a few bed&breakfasts here & there and so on.

All places on Expedia has everything rated as "In High Demand".

Now, let's look at the big picture here. The annual Moncton Santa Clause parade has been known as one of the biggest SC Parades east side of the country, yearly estimated crowds of 100,000 spectators, who knows how much economic spin offs, and claims of no parking in downtown core (sorry, had to bring that up).

I'm not sure if I had any great points to my story other than being a little set back that the nearest hotel they could find was Bouctouche. In any rate, good for us Monctonians that the parade is creating such a huge impact to the local economy!

[Blue Blazer]

I stopped in Moncton for a bit on the way back from Halifax and I took the mapleton road exit and saw a new building on the right hand side, is that a new hotel ? its the one kinda close to the Hampton inn ?

[MonctonRad]

Originally Posted by Blue Blazer

I stopped in Moncton for a bit on the way back from Halifax and I took the mapleton road exit and saw a new building on the right hand side, is that a new hotel ? its the one kinda close to the Hampton inn ?

New Holiday Inn & Suites. The old one at Magnetic Hill is now a Days Inn.

Supposedly there will be a Jack Astor's restaurant and possibly a Milestone's restaurant as part of the development.

[David_99]

Off topic but did we just invade Maine?


(This is the map on Massage Addicts website)

[Scarface]

Originally Posted by David_99

Off topic but did we just invade Maine?


(This is the map on Massage Addicts website)

Well aparently we took a part of Maine that should have technically be ours. LOL

I love these maps I had seen one I can't remember the company we had taken over all the way to NY, and Coneticut. and the other between Ontario, and BC it looked like we took over all the Northern half of all the border States.

[Blue Blazer]

Originally Posted by MonctonRad

New Holiday Inn & Suites. The old one at Magnetic Hill is now a Days Inn.

Supposedly there will be a Jack Astor's restaurant and possibly a Milestone's restaurant as part of the development.

That is what I though Holiday inn. I been reading these boards for years so everything sorta gets mushed together. I really like the idea of Jack Astors. I ate at the one in Halifax recently, never had a bad meal

[MonctonRad]

from Huddle:

N.B. Loses 2,700 Jobs, But Big Gains Made in Moncton
Dec 1, 2017 by Huddle Staff
http://huddle.today/n-b-loses-2700-jobs-big-gains-made-moncton/

MONCTON – The New Brunswick economy lost 2,700 jobs in November, according to Statistics Canada’s latest labour force survey, but Moncton bucked that trend by adding 1,100 positions.

The Hub City’s employed workforce grew from 78,900 in October to 80,000 in November.

However, its unemployment rate rose from 5.8 per cent in October to 6.3 per cent in November because the size of its workforce grew from 83,800 to 85,400.

Saint John’s situation mirrored the province as a whole. Its employed workforce fell from 65,300 in October to 64,500 in November, a loss of 800 jobs.

The national numbers show Moncton’s growth is very much in line with what’s going on in the rest of the country.

[MonctonRad]

A new event to allay the winter doldrums in the city - Flash Moncton!
https://www.facebook.com/notes/flash-moncton/flash/144972522821015/

This will take place February 2-3, 2018

“You can expect some of Moncton’s larger buildings to be mapped out, creating optical illusions to change the cityscape temporarily. People can expect something that’s never been presented in Atlantic Canada. Flash is programming some exciting high-level light and technology-based artists.”Explains Lisa Griffin, Executive Director of Art for Art’sSake.

The weekend will also include a culinary experience, shows around the “ice and fire” theme, and immersive concerts that offer not just a series of shows but experiences. Several interactive installations are being built that the programming team is excited about.

“We’ve made it so that the public can play a big part in the personality of the festival - giving them a number of different ways to interact and be part of the programming” GIFfest is a mini festival built inside of Flash where the public will be given the tools to create animated images that will then be projected onto the walls of the city.

One of the main events will be orchestrated by Halifax-based artist Wasko, using 3D mapping projections and sound choreographed for a radical transformation on one of the city’s largest buildings, plunging the audience into a new universe.

[lirette]

Originally Posted by MonctonRad

A new event to allay the winter doldrums in the city - Flash Moncton!
https://www.facebook.com/notes/flash-moncton/flash/144972522821015/

This will take place February 2-3, 2018

Nothing against the artist who created the artwork for the Events Centre plaza but I wish these folks were involved in that project..everything they do is fresh, professionally done and while the art crowd is a bit niche in Moncton..its growing and they've found a way to facilitate installations that garner interest from the masses. They would have built something worthy of the price tag.

[MonctonRad]

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