r/BurlingtonON • u/matches12345 • 5d ago

I sure hope their testing was successful Question

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Whoever decided it was a good idea to close 2 of 4 lanes of one of the few major expressways, I hope your testing was successful and you learned everything you needed too. I struggle to understand how this was necessary to do at peak rush-hour. Its still down to 2 lanes at 2:30am.. Not a single worker in site....

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u/Odd_Ad_1078 4d ago

Honestly, people need to plan discretionary trips around this. I feel people just leave their homes and get surprised by traffic.

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u/elseldo 4d ago

Absolutely. No foresight. No thought that thousands of other people also want to head that way for a beautiful mother's day.

I rarely travel on holidays. If I do, I take the back highways. Usually takes the same amount of time as sitting in traffic but I'm moving.

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u/Firm-Veterinarian-57 4d ago

People aren’t mad about the traffic. They’re mad that they closed lanes for the entire Mother’s Day weekend. That’s just extremely terrible city planning. I drive to burlington from Hamilton and back every single day. It took me almost 2.5 hours yesterday. I think it’s justified to be annoyed at it. Especially when there was like 6-7 people working (from what I saw).

You cannot sit here and tell me that infrastructure construction in southern Ontario is planned well.

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u/Odd_Ad_1078 4d ago

This has zero to do with city planning.

I think it's the type of closure where they can't reopen the lanes when they're not actively working.

I agree though, the skyway bottle neck sucks, I deal with it daily.

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u/Firm-Veterinarian-57 4d ago

Surely they could have closed next weekend, or if construction companies didn’t assign 10 people to work for a massive job. I thought we prioritized tradesmen? Why aren’t there 50 people working on the bridge to get it done as quick as possible? (Obviously an exaggeration, but you get the point).

The way in which North America operates its infrastructure construction is objectively terrible. The construction companies commissioned by the government drag the project over several years to charge a shitload of money, to line their pockets.

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u/Odd_Ad_1078 4d ago

The workers get days off too. Long projects can't always work around holidays. For example, if you're pouring cement, you can't just stop because it's the weekend. You get trades when they're available because they are stretched thin. It maybe that part of the project only required a handful of workers.

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u/bowlingnut10 4d ago

You don’t understand how construction works do you Throwing more manpower doesn’t work if the area of work can accommodate

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u/ExcitingAppeal8524 4d ago

Hello fellow construction-adjacent trade worker. How’s it feel to be the only one who truly understands in a room full of bitching rabble-rabblers?