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[TAS]

Unpopular opinion but new Milner looks attractive from the angle above by @JNO1

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Agreed. It has a certain 'je ne sais quoi' from that angle.

 

[IanO]

I'd 100% agree that there is indeed an 'I don't know (wtftwt)' about it.

 

[David A]

Agreed. It has a certain 'je ne sais quoi' from that angle.

It looks especially bad from the west, not as bad from the east. It also looks better at night than during the day time.

I'm not sure that this is a ringing endorsement though.

 

[kcantor]

It looks especially bad from the west, not as bad from the east. It also looks better at night than during the day time.

I'm not sure that this is a ringing endorsement though.

i think it's a lot like being told "you have a great face for radio"...

 

[MCXavierL]

Lets be honest, who looks good from all directions.

Side note, whoever employs the yellow suits with stop signs' workers must be the largest employer in Canada.

 

[northlands]

Lets be honest, who looks good from all directions.

Side note, whoever employs the yellow suits with stop signs' workers must be the largest employer in Canada.

I've been wondering about that. I figured it has to be just some staffing agency lol

 

[kcantor]

Lets be honest, who looks good from all directions.

Side note, whoever employs the yellow suits with stop signs' workers must be the largest employer in Canada.

i think in edmonton the largest employer is whoever makes and distributes those traffic barriers and cones, particularly the temporary ones, being stored by the curb or on sidewalks and boulevards forever instead of getting picked up...

 

[itom987]

I am stumped as to why they need an army of yellow jacket wearing workers to block the intersections during LRV testing, they have something like 10 for every intersection. They are all twiddling their thumbs when not needed which is most of the time.

 

[David A]

I am stumped as to why they need an army of yellow jacket wearing workers to block the intersections during LRV testing, they have something like 10 for every intersection. They are all twiddling their thumbs when not needed which is most of the time.

It does seem to be overkill and I am wondering who is paying for this

 

[Airboy]

i think in edmonton the largest employer is whoever makes and distributes those traffic barriers and cones, particularly the temporary ones, being stored by the curb or on sidewalks and boulevards forever instead of getting picked up...

A lot of those are event or road closure for events. The current crop is along the marathon route. I noticed them out yesterday doing a ride along the course. But I think there are still some out from the Triathalon.

 

[MacLac]

It does seem to be overkill and I am wondering who is paying for this

Coming out of the budget?

 

[northlands]

Was nearby so thought I’d take a look in the daytime. The fact it’s multiple in a row speaks more to concrete issues rather than design IMO.

 

[Airboy]

1 and 2 look to be interesting

Image 3 could be surface since they did add a finish to them.

These all might be getting steel collars.

 

[archited]

In the pictures, a couple of them look like genuine stress cracks (photos one and two); most of them look like superficial concrete spalling (photo 3); none of them look good.

 

[IanO]

Spalling is simply an engineers attempt at a patina.