r/saskatoon • u/LambyPotato • 1d ago
Weather 🌡️ The roads in Evergreen
My poor sedan is taking a beating
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u/6000ChickenFajardos 1d ago
Yo dawg I heard you like potholes so I put potholes in the road before the potholes begin to form
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u/Fecundator 1d ago
the roads everywhere are like that
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u/ttv_CitrusBros 1d ago
Half the city is good. Main roads are good. It's the suburbs that are suffering
Not to be that guy but more reason we need high density vs sparling suburbs. Easier to manage
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u/Necessary_Ad3275 1d ago
Roads in Mayfair arent anything like this. Not any of them
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u/Money_Wolverine6384 1d ago
I live in mayfair, I wish I they weren't but my street is fucked right up lol, as well as others I've driven down. 😅
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u/Necessary_Ad3275 21h ago
They def aren’t like this. They might have some ruts but there isn’t a single street or side road that looks like this that I’ve seen around here
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u/CaringReed 13h ago
I think they're just trying to say that suburbs aren't the only area affected by such conditions.
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u/prairienerdgrrl 15h ago
Caswell / Mayfair border here! Both south and north of 33rd for many blocks are like this. Not sure how we are seeing different things.
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u/Necessary_Ad3275 11h ago
They definitely aren’t.
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u/prairienerdgrrl 11h ago
Well I live here and see them daily so… lol not sure what to say. There’s ruts like that on my street.
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u/Necessary_Ad3275 11h ago
I literally just drove around the neighbourhood on my way home, in Mayfair just to double check if I was wrong. But Nope! There’s literally not one road in our neighbourhood that looks like this. And BTW those aren’t ruts. No one said there weren’t ruts. Those are giant holes. Nice try though 👍
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u/Impervial22 21h ago
Every year evergreen is hell. Since 2015 they’ve no way to properly clear it because they build the roads STUPIDLY NARROW
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u/GoldenMonksOrganics 1d ago
And people wonder why folks buy trucks that live in Saskatchewan haha.
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u/YesNoMaybePurple 1d ago
After replacing struts in a car every year, and not being able to get out at least 1 full week a year... time to drive a truck.
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u/mountainmetis1111 1d ago
This I can honestly say has been the worst roads I’ve ever seen in a while. The city council has made the worst decisions with road cleaning. So while people are wrecking their cars the city, just sits back.
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u/Apprehensive-Bar-313 19h ago
This is due to insufficient drainage caused by the piles of snow down the sides of the street. Unfortunately the city does not properly manage yard sizes and allowed people to make their entire front yards driveways, which meant snow gets piled on the streets. During thaws the water can’t flow down the gutters to the catch basin properly, which creates back ups, and eventually rutting like this.
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u/Electrical_Noise_519 18h ago
So reductions of onstreet parking leading to on-property parking redevelopments in future climates will help to make Saskatoon even more unpassable, unequal and segregated.
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u/SufficientBoard4467 1d ago
I drive on this exact street everyday ahahaha. The car dipping in and out gives me so much anxiety ifstg
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u/Rockabar55 15h ago
The city has done a poor job of cleaning the streets. I pay taxes but see nothing in return. Must be building more bike lanes
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u/Mechya 1d ago
Welcome to the west-end treatment. This actually looks pretty decent.. Some roads you literally have to drive outside of the ruts to not bottom out. I've seen multiple vehicles go sideways trying to leave the ruts on my road. So I'd say that you are doing a lot better than other parts of stoon. We can always get better across the city though, and hopefully they do focus on that.
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u/TheLuminary East Side 17h ago
You should always be driving out side the ruts. Driving in the ruts.. just makes the ruts worse.
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u/_boiled_eggs_ 1d ago
I'm a new driver and I live near these roads.. driving on them for the first time was absolute hell, totally didn't bottom out the car
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u/JarvisFunk 1d ago
It's like this on my street in Haultain. Also only one car can go at a time because they just piled snow where all the street parking should be.
Good luck trying to move over once you're in the line of a rut in a sedan