City doesn’t keep numbers on road blockages
La Presse alleges the city doesn’t know how many roads are blocked off at any given moment, because while it does know about its own roadwork sites, it doesn’t try to keep track of private construction sites affecting road access.
Alex 08:47 on 2019-07-16 Permalink
Which is weird as you have to pay for an obstruction permit if you want to block a road with a construction vehicle..
Blork 09:17 on 2019-07-16 Permalink
Probably not so weird considering the information likely isn’t centralized. You go pay for your permit and the info is written on a file somewhere and shoved into a file cabinet. If it even is computerized, it’s probably just shoved into a local file folder or maybe even a local database, but the data is probably not centralized.
Ian 11:17 on 2019-07-17 Permalink
Also worth noting while even a city site may take up, for example, Hutchison between Laurier and Van Horne for a few months as we witnessed earlier this year, the entire street and intersections aren’t blocked up the entire time as the work shifts slowly down the street. That said it was changing so fast hour to hour google maps couldn’t keep up with it. There are other examples of sprawling construction Google maps can’t keep track of in town but as that is the one closest to where I live it is the first to spring to mind.
If Google Maps, specializing in real time traffic directions doesn’t know what streets are blocked off I can 100% guarantee the city has no f’ing clue.