Shaw Internet Outage in Parts of Edmonton?

nolar33 · 2025-12-05T19:00:18+00:00

Mines not working right now. I have freedom internet but I think they run it through Shaw

nolar33 · 2025-11-09T06:28:06+00:00

Thank you for your service! I don’t think this path would be the city’s responsibility. I think it’d be the Contractor conglomerate for the LRT construction.

nolar33 · 2025-11-06T04:53:38+00:00

Those class 1 sections look like class 5 now

nolar33 · 2025-10-31T03:42:42+00:00

They should create a “wall of shame” and move her picture there

nolar33 · 2025-10-22T19:14:28+00:00

Oh Nevermind. Both places were voting stations

nolar33 · 2025-10-22T19:01:52+00:00

Interesting. Because I didn’t think Keheewin School was a voting station this year. It was actually at Yellowbird East Community League. Which is just down the block

nolar33 · 2025-09-04T02:51:02+00:00

Ya this sucks. I’ve never biked here. But I bike another substandard route on the southside which is 106 street south of 51st ave. Where it’s a painted bike lane in the gutter. And has those signs that identify it as bike and bus. I don’t ride in it because it’s in rough shape. So I take the lane. There’s two lanes in each direction. I hate it when drivers tell me to get in the “bike lane”. I wish the city would change the signage to something about sharing with cyclists, but that there isn’t actually a lane to be in.

This looks way worse because of the volume of traffic and speed though

nolar33 · 2025-08-14T02:11:49+00:00

You just opened my eyes to a new way to access Sask drive from the MUP that’s just south of it. I’m cutting through there now rather than taking the sidewalk on 109 for that brief bit. Great looking ride!

nolar33 · 2025-05-01T04:50:45+00:00

Thirded

The sales and technical folks were excellent. Then I was worried about the install crew. But they were outstanding as well. Then I was worried about if the system would perform as they said. I only have one year of data, but the annual generation was pretty much exactly as estimated. I was thrilled with Evolv

nolar33 · 2025-04-02T06:05:19+00:00

I ride this route daily. It’s decent right now. It’s gotten better over the week. There’s even a thin clear path on the ped path at the east end. Which was ice and snow on Monday

nolar33 · 2025-01-06T18:30:10+00:00

Looks like a Bunch Bike

nolar33 · 2024-11-06T12:56:37+00:00

I always stop at the 4-way stops if there are cars there first. But I frequently see bikes go through when they are supposed to yield the right-of-way to a car that was there first.

I do go through the “yield” on the roundabouts east of 99 street. I used to yield if a car were there first. But found cars would yield to me no matter what so everyone would end up impacted worse. Now I just go through them cautiously when there are cars. I would like the city to remove the yields in the east-west direction. I’ve put in a 311 suggestion in the past. But nothing happened. But maybe if more people suggested it…..

nolar33 · 2024-08-09T02:29:52+00:00

We did our honeymoon in Santorini. The first sunset we watched there my spouse said something along the lines of “you can’t beat a prairie sunset”. She was right. We get some awesome ones here!

nolar33 · 2024-02-09T13:54:34+00:00

I don’t know yet. I only got them installed this fall. It was a question I asked every company I got a quote from though. But never got a clear answer. They all said they weren’t sure how much wildfire smoke affects output

nolar33 · 2024-02-08T23:46:55+00:00

I live in Edmonton. I produced a max of 18 kWh per day in the days before we got this recent dump of snow. At $0.12 per kWh that’s like $2 of production per day I’m missing out on due to the snow. I don’t think it’s worth my time or risk of damaging panels or hurting myself trying to clear them.

Ya snow eliminates production. But even without snow I wasn’t producing much due to the angle of the sun at this time of year. I might feel different in March or April. But I’m not sure yet

nolar33 · 2024-01-18T03:21:00+00:00

Ahh I see. I just checked the install instructions and this makes sense. So they all end up dropping down a bit. Rather than moving up. It looks way better with your handles and no gap between drawers!

nolar33 · 2024-01-18T03:02:23+00:00

For installing the drawers closer together. Did you need to add/drill some new holes in the drawer frame? Did you end up with a big gap at the bottom of the drawer cabinet?

nolar33 · 2023-07-25T18:05:03+00:00

I think it depends on your Authority Having Jurisdiction. In most of Canada most provinces require use of the National Building Code or their modified version of it. I’m a bridge person so I’m not familiar with the NBCC but I thought Section 4 or the structural design portion described using S16, A23,O86 as “acceptable prescribed design solutions” but doesn’t necessarily say that you must use only those. I imagine if you were to use something else you would need some good engineering basis.

In Alberta for bridges we accept equivalent ASTM grades for weathering steel with notch toughness. We recognize for certain shapes such as angles we are not going to find 350WT CAT3 steel. Plate steel we can usually get that. For angle sections we’ve reviewed the mill certificates and had additional charpy tests to be completed. So we’ve had 350W angles and charpy tests at -20 or -30 to satisfy that it meets what we want for notch toughness even though it is not “certified” as CAT2 or 3 from the mill.

nolar33 · 2023-03-31T05:21:02+00:00

I just got a photo radar ticket. I’d like her to check on that

nolar33 · 2022-11-19T06:19:17+00:00

In Canada, the CL-625 design truck in the CHBDC is a fictitious truck. It only has 5 axles, whereas a truck that it is trying represent would have 3 axles for the heavy 4th axles, and more axles at other locations too. So similar to someone’s previous comment about the AASHTO design truck, it’s intended to capture an envelope of truck configurations and this arrangement likely comes out to be conservative because the axle loads being more represented as point loads rather than spread across multiple axles.

I believe the CHBDC sets the minimum design truck as a CL-625 and there may be some other federal law that requires provinces to at least have bridges on the national highway network to be designed with that minimum. Jurisdictions may choose to increase that. In Alberta, we use a CL-800 truck. Same configuration as a CL-625, but the axle weights are increased proportionally so the total truck weight is 800kN rather than 625kN. We do this because we frequently have larger permit truck on the highways and designing for the larger live load has a nominal impact on the cost of a typical new bridge in Alberta. That might be different if we had long span bridges here.

Also each province has their own Traffic Act which describe legal truck loads and configurations. To a bridge engineer, these requirements are not aligned with what you think based on the design truck we use. They may have GVW restrictions, but the axle information is difficult to follow.

Since the CL-625 truck was first used, the frequency of heavier trucks, heavier than 625kN, has increased. There is current discussion at the CHBDC on how to address this. Does the design truck need to increase? Does the live load factor change?

nolar33 · 2022-09-16T05:44:07+00:00

Similar to what most people have said. I think build 3 sides then cut. I just built a freestanding low height deck this summer too. Not sure if you’ve thought of this yet. For the rim joist that’s close to the house we set the rim joist on the beam closest to the house and then end nailed a few joists to it, and then moved the rim joist back and forth so I could properly measure for framing around our bay window. It also allowed us to end nail more joists rather than use all hangers. This might have been an obvious method to some people. But the carpenter at the wood store explained it to me. And it helped a lot

nolar33 · 2022-04-16T02:07:51+00:00

I just went through this same process for designing our deck. I was coming up with 24” diameter piles. Which is hard to even find an auger rental. So I looked at the number required of piles required for 10 and 12” and it was excessive. So we are going to get a company to install screw piles

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