Henry

Bloody deep pothole hidden in pool of water by the driveway into the ESSO on 121 Avenue. I found it! So I got a traffic cone and dropped it in the pool of water where the pothole is so that no one else hits it. NEEDS to be Patched like the sooner the better as I don't imagine the traffic cone will last for long. I dropped the cone in about 2:30 PM Sunday March 22, 2015.

I noticed that a crew completed a sidewalk patio on 100 Avenue the other day. I think that this is a great idea and it adds to the downtown area. The one thing that caught my eye was the hazard marker on the 100 Avenue patio facing approaching traffic.
The diagonal lines on the marker are directing traffic to the left (into the patio), whereas the one at 101 Avenue (Tito's) is correct. Please see attached photos.

In the case of 101 Avenue, the downstream markers might be not right due to the two way traffic. The diagonal lines should be directing traffic to the right. At 100 Avenue, I don't think that it matters because traffic is only headed in one direction and drivers might only see the markers in their rear view mirrors.

The other day ATCO Gas undertook a repair of their utility in the back alley between 106 & 107 Avenues (between 101 & 102 Streets) in South Avondale. I don't know what their plans are to restore the alley way. They left a hump where they backfilled the excavation. It appears that they are anticipating the backfill to settle over time, but the hump or mound of earth left behind will cause a blockage in the alleyway drainage. The runoff may spill into the adjacent properties if we get a good rainfall.

The other concern I have is that there was no surfacing gravel placed over the disturbed section of the alleyway.

I noticed that the maintenance crew replaced the pedestrian activated traffic signals with pedestrian activated alternating flashers at 100 street and 105 Avenue (by the Dairy Queen).

I was just wondering why there is a "stop line" sign in the south bound direction and not one in the northbound direction?

There are stop bars on the pavement, remnants from the traffic signals, so for consistency, there either should be another "stop line" sign in the north bound direction as well or none at all.

The south bound "stop line" sign is about seven metres in advance of the stop bar, one would think that the pavement marking and respective sign should perhaps be closer to each other than that?

At approximately 12:39 PM May 23, 2013 I was heading northbound on 102 street and I was stopped at the traffic lights at 100 Avenue. I saw the wind blow the route marker sign off its post onto the sidewalk.

The sign is located on the east side of the church on 102 Street southbound lane.

Maintenance staff might want to check other signs in the area as a number of signs were flapping in the wind and may become loose and fall off as well.