Golden road improvements/closures.....

[kimrick]

I'm going for it today, hope my car makes it.

Should be minimal truck traffic and a buety day to travel.
Safe journey Johnny

 

[snopro]

Should be minimal truck traffic and a buety day to travel.
Safe journey Johnny

Hope that Tesla is heavy enough to stay on the road at Exshaw. Can't imagine how windy it is there today going by what it is here right now.

 

[ferniesnow]

You can do it Johnny!!

 

[snopro]

Hoping for a real time road report and route info from a stellar snow and mudder tonight!

 

[jhurkot]

16 degrees in Calgary.
Windy af near Canmore.
93 was pretty decent even for a car.
1 degree at golden.
Star Wars snow flakes from quartz to Rogers pass.
After Rogers pass good visibility and bare.

 

[lilduke]

16 degrees in Calgary.
Windy af near Canmore.
93 was pretty decent even for a car.
1 degree at golden.
Star Wars snow flakes from quartz to Rogers pass.
After Rogers pass good visibility and bare.

Ok now you have to give us snow report from the mountain

 

[kimrick]

• Sept. 20 (noon) to Dec. 1 (6 a.m.): Kicking Horse Canyon Constructors will implement a multi-day, 24-hour, extended closure of the Trans-Canada Highway. Through traffic on Highway 1 between Golden to Castle Junction will be routed via highways 93 and 95, which will add up to 1.5 hours of travel time. Roadside signage will provide advance notification of the closure. Alternative routes will have signage.

 

[kimrick]

Well starting tommorrow, the detour is over.....Well, might still want to take it with the below report.....Not like they had days before to do this.

Highway 1 Both Directions - Highway 1, in both directions. Avalanche control work planned between Field and Visitor Centre Access Rd and BC/Alberta Border for 16.2 km (Field). Starting Wed Dec 1 at 8:00 PM MST. Road closure planned. Expect major delays. Next update time Wed Dec 1 at 9:00 PM MST. Last updated Tue Nov 30 at 2:49 PM MST. (DBC-35661)

 

[kimrick]

Fall 2021 through Winter 2021-22

Extended (multi-day/24-hour) Fall closure ends at midnight November 30.

From December 1 through to April 2022, the highway will be open with 30-minute stoppages. These stoppages will generally occur between 9 am and 3 pm and 6 pm to 10 pm. There will also be overnight full closures (10 pm to 7 am) nightly.

During the winter holiday period from 3 pm December 23 until noon January 4, there will be no stoppages or closures due to Phase 4 construction.

 

[kimrick]

Is this ironic.
Close Radium route when highway 1 opens???
Make themselves look good after the last 12hour travel fiasco on that route...

 

[medler]

93 south is closed for avy risks
What a fiasco
Only way to revy from the south part of AB is CNP route

 

[tmo1620]

Hey guys and gals…. I know everyone (including myself) likes to jump on the truckers for causing the problems here, but the issue is deeper than that. The next time you’re talking to your MLA/MP (because I know you all do…) be sure to question that person on why so much freight is being moved via truck rather than safer and more economical solutions (supposedly) like rail.

There’s a reason the rail was laid down in the first place. Extremely unfortunate that so many spur lines have been removed in western Canada, with CN/CP claiming these lines were uneconomic. BS… the spur lines may just not have been as LUCRATIVE as the main lines. Rail is federal jurisdiction, yet has so much regional impact that yes, a person should be lobbying both your MP and your MLA.

I work for a company that sells 100’s of millions of dollars in product every year. 15 years ago we moved 99% of it by rail. Since then that has changed to about 50% or less. CN and CP have a monopoly on the rail business in Canada and essentially have more power than gov’t. With that power they can set the price and demands for how product is loaded and what they deem the proper way. They have drastically increased price to the point it’s almost not worth using them even though you can fit 3x more in a box car than one truck. Even with the price increases we still were moving lots via rail. Then covid hit and CN’s bottom line aka profit margin took a hit and when your bigger than gov’t this just doesn’t fly. Now they have gone full retard and have a list of demands a mile long with how they think cars should be loaded. We used to be able to load four railcars, paperwork and seal them up and out of the warehouse in under and hour. Now due to no reason at all we have to run strapping, load the car, fill air bags to squeeze the load, tighten strapping , pictures of the whole process and close up and seal. This process makes loading a car take over an hour per car now. It also costs about $5000 extra per car in materials and man power. There was never one issue in 30+ years with pulp loads shifting or moving to bring this on. So they made us hire a “consultant “ to show us how to change to their preferred process, he of course contracts to CN……. And we pay for that. Then the company that sells the strapping and loading material, well that is owned by CN. Getting the picture? Their bottom line never can take a hit so they pass this on to customers so they can continue to have record profits. And if you argue it they withhold railcars and service.

 

[2kDoo]

I work for a company that sells 100’s of millions of dollars in product every year. 15 years ago we moved 99% of it by rail. Since then that has changed to about 50% or less. CN and CP have a monopoly on the rail business in Canada and essentially have more power than gov’t. With that power they can set the price and demands for how product is loaded and what they deem the proper way. They have drastically increased price to the point it’s almost not worth using them even though you can fit 3x more in a box car than one truck. Even with the price increases we still were moving lots via rail. Then covid hit and CN’s bottom line aka profit margin took a hit and when your bigger than gov’t this just doesn’t fly. Now they have gone full retard and have a list of demands a mile long with how they think cars should be loaded. We used to be able to load four railcars, paperwork and seal them up and out of the warehouse in under and hour. Now due to no reason at all we have to run strapping, load the car, fill air bags to squeeze the load, tighten strapping , pictures of the whole process and close up and seal. This process makes loading a car take over an hour per car now. It also costs about $5000 extra per car in materials and man power. There was never one issue in 30+ years with pulp loads shifting or moving to bring this on. So they made us hire a “consultant “ to show us how to change to their preferred process, he of course contracts to CN……. And we pay for that. Then the company that sells the strapping and loading material, well that is owned by CN. Getting the picture? Their bottom line never can take a hit so they pass this on to customers so they can continue to have record profits. And if you argue it they withhold railcars and service.

ive been saying for years the railway was financed not by the gov but by the richest Canadians at the time......all to avoid Americans taking over Canada after their civil war

 

[MP Kid]

I work for a company that sells 100’s of millions of dollars in product every year. 15 years ago we moved 99% of it by rail. Since then that has changed to about 50% or less. CN and CP have a monopoly on the rail business in Canada and essentially have more power than gov’t. With that power they can set the price and demands for how product is loaded and what they deem the proper way. They have drastically increased price to the point it’s almost not worth using them even though you can fit 3x more in a box car than one truck. Even with the price increases we still were moving lots via rail. Then covid hit and CN’s bottom line aka profit margin took a hit and when your bigger than gov’t this just doesn’t fly. Now they have gone full retard and have a list of demands a mile long with how they think cars should be loaded. We used to be able to load four railcars, paperwork and seal them up and out of the warehouse in under and hour. Now due to no reason at all we have to run strapping, load the car, fill air bags to squeeze the load, tighten strapping , pictures of the whole process and close up and seal. This process makes loading a car take over an hour per car now. It also costs about $5000 extra per car in materials and man power. There was never one issue in 30+ years with pulp loads shifting or moving to bring this on. So they made us hire a “consultant “ to show us how to change to their preferred process, he of course contracts to CN……. And we pay for that. Then the company that sells the strapping and loading material, well that is owned by CN. Getting the picture? Their bottom line never can take a hit so they pass this on to customers so they can continue to have record profits. And if you argue it they withhold railcars and service.

I couldn’t agree with you more… ask any farmer about the issues with how the rail system treats the end user.

The fact remains that it is by far the safest way for transporting goods.

Every person in Canada should hold their MP to task at why the railway system has become so profit driven, when it was originated on the backs of taxpayers.

 

[kimrick]

I couldn’t agree with you more… ask any farmer about the issues with how the rail system treats the end user.

The fact remains that it is by far the safest way for transporting goods.

Every person in Canada should hold their MP to task at why the railway system has become so profit driven, when it was originated on the backs of taxpayers.

WTF does this have to do with this thread????

Golden road improvements/closures.....​

Please take your rail information and excellent comments to a new thread you are starting, about:
Railways in Canada.........
I promise I will not go in there and derail it.....BWHAAA

 

[kimrick]

I work for a company that sells 100’s of millions of dollars in product every year. 15 years ago we moved 99% of it by rail. Since then that has changed to about 50% or less. CN and CP have a monopoly on the rail business in Canada and essentially have more power than gov’t. With that power they can set the price and demands for how product is loaded and what they deem the proper way. They have drastically

WTF does this have to do with this thread????

Golden road improvements/closures.....​

Please take your rail information and excellent comments to a new thread you are starting, about:
Railways in Canada.........
I promise I will not go in there and derail it.....BWHAAA

 

[tmo1620]

WTF does this have to do with this thread????

Golden road improvements/closures.....​

Please take your rail information and excellent comments to a new thread you are starting, about:
Railways in Canada.........
I promise I will not go in there and derail it.....BWHAAA

Because it’s blocking up the roads and causing more wear and tear on the roads necessitating road improvements to handle the extra traffic, the term cascading effect comes into play, that’s what it has to do with the roads

 

[MP Kid]

Because it’s blocking up the roads and causing more wear and tear on the roads necessitating road improvements to handle the extra traffic, the term cascading effect comes into play, that’s what it has to do with the roads

Don’t argue with stupidity…

They will drag you down and beat you with experience!

 

[kimrick]

Because it’s blocking up the roads and causing more wear and tear on the roads necessitating road improvements to handle the extra traffic, the term cascading effect comes into play, that’s what it has to do with the roads

Move along to your new thread.
Wear and Tear on roads in Canada.

Not the Theme of this thread...Thanks though.

 

[tmo1620]

Move along to your new thread.
Wear and Tear on roads in Canada.

Not the Theme of this thread...Thanks though.

Your a treat, good for you