Saskatoon Roads & Infrastructure - Page 18

Dalreg · #**341** Posted **Jul 22, 2023, 1:21 AM**

WTF?

Which idiot got out the crayons to design this mess.....

https://www.saskatchewan.ca/governme...llision-u-turn

electricmodes · #**342** Posted **Jul 22, 2023, 1:35 AM**

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Originally Posted by Dalreg

WTF?

Which idiot got out the crayons to design this mess.....

https://www.saskatchewan.ca/governme...llision-u-turn

Hahahaha. This is pure "growth that works for everyone" highway design. What a joke.

phone · #**343** Posted **Jul 22, 2023, 3:50 AM**

Anything to avoid building an overpass on a four lane highway… god forbid!!

craner · #**344** Posted **Jul 22, 2023, 7:01 AM**

That’s a brutal design decision.

Dalreg · #**345** Posted **Jul 22, 2023, 9:49 AM**

I am actually embarrassed to admit that I am born and raised in Saskatchewan if they go through with this. What a huge load of grade "A" bullshit....

sharpie · #**346** Posted **Jul 23, 2023, 4:29 AM**

From a safety perspective and maintaining free flow on the major movements (hwy 16), this is a good cost effective solution. The concept of using downstream turns to remove left turn conflicts is used elsewhere successfully (superstreet concept). Interchanges are very expensive. Before spending $30m on an interchange here, I’d much prefer interchanges at Marquis and remove those signals and return to free flow.

craner · #**347** Posted **Jul 23, 2023, 6:26 AM**

No, U-turns are a terrible decision, shouldn’t even be considered in a first world country.

phone · #**348** Posted **Jul 23, 2023, 3:05 PM**

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Originally Posted by sharpie

From a safety perspective and maintaining free flow on the major movements (hwy 16), this is a good cost effective solution. The concept of using downstream turns to remove left turn conflicts is used elsewhere successfully (superstreet concept). Interchanges are very expensive. Before spending $30m on an interchange here, I’d much prefer interchanges at Marquis and remove those signals and return to free flow.

Maybe the province could find an extra $30 mil in its coffers if it didn’t write $500 cheques to every person in the province.

roryn1 · #**349** Posted **Jul 24, 2023, 1:03 PM**

the NDP should jump on this if they are smart. clearly sask can’t afford not to dramatically raise it’s current tax rate with this and the cuts to saskatoon’s already extremely core low end budget. this must be the longest time in the provinces history that overpasses haven’t been constructed since the inception of overpasses… yeesh what a mess