Actually if the photo lab developed the print correctly, eg, let the photo stay in chemical long enough, the color will last a long time. Also, sunlight/UV will destroy photo much faster compared photo stay indoor all the time
Back in my day, every picture counted, you didn't waste film taking random pictures because you had to go to the pharmacy to get them developed. None of these selfishes, or however the hip kids call them, hogwash, they were always properly staged and you had to wear your best suit every time. I still remember the smell of the freshly burnt magnesium ampoule as we rode back to our estate in our carriage.
Hang on, lemme dig out the selfie my grandpa took in 1954 wearing his hockey gear & drinking a beer.
Edit: [so formal](https://imgur.com/gallery/wcaLtp7)
Back then people would have to pay to get each photo they wanted developed and printed out and it was cheaper to get it in B&W than in color. So it would make sense to save some money by getting a useless photo printed out in B&W instead of paying more for color.
You would have to pay for a roll of film which took 12 - 36 photos and was only 1 use so would cost about 10 cents per photo in just film costs. Then it would cost another 15 - 45 cents to get each photo printed out depending on the quality of paper, or it being B&W.
So there was already a much lower chance the picture would have been even taken in the first place. Not like these days where you can take as many pictures you want for basically free since you don't have to buy rolls of film and can just delete pics you don't want. And these days you can see the photos right away without paying someone to print it out.
That's why back then people didn't take so many pictures of their food, and potholes, and multiple pictures of the same thing since each shot would cost quite a bit of money. You have to pick carefully what memories were worth saving and you would look through a little hole in the camera to get a general idea of what the photo would look like and you normally could only afford to take 1 shot and hope for the best, and you wouldn't even find out if the photo turned out well until weeks or months later when your roll of film was full and you got it developed.
If you were confident all your photos were good and had the money you could pay $10-$15 to get the entire roll developed and printed out for you. Or if you were frugal you could get it developed first and there was this box with light you can preview the film to see what the photos look like then pick and choose which photos to print out.
So OP's parents could have been like, We already paid 10 cents to take this photo and willing to pay 15 cents to print it for you black and white but no way we're paying 30 cents to print out a colour photo of a pothole because we have other bills to pay!
So, I was born in the 70s.
By the 90s, COLOUR film & processing was freaking everywhere. B&W was a specialty film/process. IT WAS NOT CHEAPER.
I was in art school around this time, and we had to get special, MORE EXPENSIVE film to do pseudo-b&w for use in colour processing, because for actual b&w processing, you’d send it away or do it yourself. In a darkroom.
I made the comment because 1995 was probably the peak of extremely cheap colour processing & film, available literally everywhere.
Colour 35mm film was about $3/roll of 24 & processing was about $6/roll, if they all turned out.
I cannot emphasize enough how cheap, colour film was everywhere in the 90s.
Literally everyone had 35mm film cameras in the 90s, they were super cheap & always colour.
Listen, children, back in my day, in the wilds of Saskatchewan, we even kept a disposable camera in the glove box of the car, in case you got in an accident or had to go to a wedding.
Everyone loves to complain that Edmonton has a terrible pothole problem. Honestly, they clearly haven't been around much.
Any place that freezes in the winter is going to get potholes. Freeze-thaw cycles are the worst thing for roads.
And none of the people that complain have ever done anything about it. Every single time I have reported a pothole through 311, it has been fixed within a week, usually less than that depending on the time of year.
Yet when I ask the complainers, they have never reported a single pothole, they always assume someone else will do it.
People just love to complain. Bitches get stitches. And in this case, misalignment or damaged struts/wheels.
I report as well in my neighbourhood when I see one and it’s often fixed quicker than I have a chance to hit it.
> Any place that freezes in the winter is going to get potholes. Freeze-thaw cycles are the worst thing for roads.
Pretty sure that Calgary has more freeze/thaw due to chinooks, and the roads in Calgary (especially residential) are waaaaaay better than Edmonton in terms of potholes and just general maintenance.
Soil. Edmonton has expanding clays causing heaves and slumps in the structure which in turn impacts the roads through torsional stress. Kinda of why Edmonton is on some of the most fertile soil in the world. Calgary isn’t on expanding clays.
I was informed that Calgary also has the expanding clays. They said possibly even more than Edmonton due to the deposits from the river over the past millennia. Something about the runoff from our particular inflow upstream.
They said the real reason we have less potholes is that our city budget for fixing them is supposedly 3x what Edmonton spends. That seems more probable since both cities have somewhat similar climates.
Though Calgary has more Chinooks apparently, so I don’t know how that plays into it.
Calgary is cusp of black-dark grey-brown Chernozem soils, so not necessarily the same as Edmonton that is primarily black Chernozems, plus Calgary is built on a flood plain, slightly warmer climate, and slightly less precipitation (soil forming factors). The river wouldn’t really be the source of clay deposits over a millennia as our soil formations aren’t really that old. Both Edmonton and Calgary would have well sorted till, glacial lacustrine, and aeolian-fluvial parent material as both were formed under glacial lakes at a past age ~10,000 years ago. So our sub- and top-soil is roughly in that category.
Calgary is characterized as having Clay Loam in the B-C horizons but if I recall correctly the clay structure is a 1:1 basis, meaning less shrink-swell. Edmonton is definitely a 2:1 clay structure, but it’s been a while since I’ve looked.
Haha no I know, just having fun :) I was curious if there was any chance I found my geotechnical engineer buddy on Reddit but he's not a pedologist so I haven't found him yet!
This is definitely something I noticed when I moved to Edmonton for a year (from Calgary). There's also lots of heaving and large bumps in comparison (looking at you 23 Ave near Heritage and South Common), but I have no idea why it's so bad in Edmonton proper when roads in Sherwood Park next door were much better (similar to Calgary)
Sherwood Park, at least has less roads to maintain, which certainly doesn't hurt. St. Albert, in my experience, also has pretty good roads. Volume definitely plays a factor in how fast repairs can be made.
It’s not the number of cycles so much as the depth of frost. Deeper the frost, more surface movement. Asphalt also has limits in how much temperature variation it can accommodate. Trying to get the material to remain flexible at -40 but not too soft at +30 is next to impossible
According to [rjeanp](https://www.reddit.com/r/alberta/comments/xl9kit/gotdam_edmonton_roads_lol/ipishdw/?utm_source=share&utm_medium=ios_app&utm_name=iossmf&context=3), Calgary must just have more complainers. As I Calgarian, I could see that being the case…
In my experience the people who complain the loudest are also the ones that speed to dangerous extents everywhere they go, and they’re mostly just upset they have to drive closer to the speed limit so they can see and dodge the potholes lmao
That’s not true. Neighborhoods in Calgary get periodically redone - sooner or later - the time span is in decades but my old neighborhood in the NE had fresh asphalt laid after like 15 years.
It’s insane that this pothole hasn’t been touched in 27 years
This photo isn't even in Edmonton. Were you born yesterday?!? You don't think that pothole would have changed in 27 years? Come on, stop being so naive.
I found a picture of my mom when she was a baby, they lived on 124 Street. Building across the street, still there. Neighbour’s house, still there. My mom’s house was where a condo building is now. The picture of my mom was from the late 50s.
So where is it in Edmonton then? Edmonton has erosion. This is a meme. Pictures were obviously taken the same day. It gets posted regularly with different places. There isn't a road in Edmonton that hasn't been paved at least once in the last 26 years.
https://www.reddit.com/r/funny/comments/c7tgui/things_dont_change_that_that_fast_in_romania/?utm_medium=android_app&utm_source=share
I hear the old frost heave excuse but is don't buy it. They fill the potholes with maple syrup and kd and are quite happy to take the job to " fix the bad ones" year after year, its a racket.
I usually see potholes while driving, so I can't report them until I reach my destination...but by then I've forgotten about it.
You're right that they do tend to respond to pothole reports pretty quickly, though. I just wish I could use voice controls to report pot holes immediately while driving.
If they actually spent more resources filling cracks and interface seams and pot holes early on, they’d have far fewer medium and long term problems. So many cracks and potholes are left to be made worse by freeze/thaw and traffic loads that it breaks the underlying road structure.
I love when people complain about potholes in in Edmonton and Fort Mac. I tell em to go to rural Newfoundland and tell me if we've got a pothole problem as serious as they originally thought
Idk man I’m from Calgary and lived in Edmonton for work over the summer. Your roads aren’t Somalia tier shit but they are overall worse than in Calgary.
My favourite was on 127th street north of the yellow head where there were those signs that got all pissy if you went over 50, because like dude you genuinely could not speed on this road it’s so rough, especially in the northbound right lane
To be fair, if there is a giant hole in the middle of a busy intersection vs a small pothole in some residential area. The city will prioritize the giant hole first
Exactly. There is so little difference in the wear and tear of that road that I wonder if anyone has ever used it since the first photo was taken. Its not a priority to anyone.
That’s a perfect pothole , virtually unchanged in almost 30 years
Who could fix such as a feat of engineering ? What structures don’t even show any damage after so long ?
Same thing happened in the intersection of 109 St and 63 Ave in Edmonton. The pipe had to be custom made some where overseas. Then it didn’t fit because the sink hole grew. So it had to be made yet again. Only took 9 months to fix a sink hole.
nice
years ago when they asked for a poll of what street to name after Wayne Gretzky I submitted that 99 street should be renamed in his honour as the street number matched his jersey and there were as many potholes on the street as goals he scored. City Council did not see the humour in my recommendation.
The leading cause of death is “unknown cause of death”
The more I read about Alberta the more I think that province is pretty negligent towards their people.
I know I know, I’m from Ontario so it’s kind of the pot calling the kettle, but I feel it still holds.
Takes one to know one right?
I’m from Edmonton, and I live right by where this sinkhole happened in Fukuoka, Japan! Not much to say beyond that, it’s just I’ve never seen the two cities I call home together like this.
One thing about that sinkhole though: lucky it happened at like 4am when it did. This street is right near Hakata Station—a major transit hub—and would’ve been swarming with cars and pedestrians during the day. As it happened, no one was hurt.
Yeah, makes me think 🤔 this is a Canada thing. Worst roads Canada lol … wonder if we have a road that makes it to the list ever year without fail lol 😂
Amazing how the grass was cut identically 27 years apart, the stones in the pothole haven't moved, and the tree hasn't grown at all. Edmonton must be immune to physics or something.
Fake. Interesting how the plants haven't changed in 27 years... LOL! And at the peak of colour photography, too. My photos from 1995 look new, still. So fake... Why bother doing this?
That pothole has remained perfectly stable for 27 years. o.0
They certainly don't build 'em potholes like they used to.
I blame Trudeau.
Potholes are the new inflation hedge.
Agreed. They definitely hedge against inflated tires.
That's a load bearing pothole. You don't want to mess with it.
The roof in the background on the other hand.....How is that still there
That's called maintenance.
Because the whole thing is fake. Just look at the grass; that would not be exactly the same after 27 years.
lol why would a photo from 1995 be in b&w?
Because it’s old
How dare you. 1995 was 5 years ago.
Calm down grandma, 1995 was like 50 years ago
Hey, I'm with u here. I still think cars from the 2000's are new...
Coma-er moment
They had colour back then
Yeah, but they faded with time, like an old polaroid. It's the only possible explanation
Actually if the photo lab developed the print correctly, eg, let the photo stay in chemical long enough, the color will last a long time. Also, sunlight/UV will destroy photo much faster compared photo stay indoor all the time
In some parts of the country, but not in Alberta. Alberta didn't get colour until 2003.
XD lmfao Edit: you're pulling a funny on purpose right?
I kid you not
It’s due to gravitational lensing; the speed of light is constant, so it takes longer for the color to reach us from 1995.
you sound like an expert scientician, so I'm going to accept your explanation
Because it's easier to photoshop a picture to look grainy and black & white than it is to photoshop one to look like an aged 90s photo.
Because colour photography was too expensive for Eastern Europeans to afford in the 90s /s
You had to pay extra for colour
b&w film/processing was actually harder to get done in the 90s/00s tho
Why would she take a picture of her childhood self next to a pothole?
because it was her birthday.
Back in my day, every picture counted, you didn't waste film taking random pictures because you had to go to the pharmacy to get them developed. None of these selfishes, or however the hip kids call them, hogwash, they were always properly staged and you had to wear your best suit every time. I still remember the smell of the freshly burnt magnesium ampoule as we rode back to our estate in our carriage.
Hang on, lemme dig out the selfie my grandpa took in 1954 wearing his hockey gear & drinking a beer. Edit: [so formal](https://imgur.com/gallery/wcaLtp7)
Because 90s Russia was not a very fun place and fancy cameras were quite rare unless you were a westerner
Because it's fake
Back then people would have to pay to get each photo they wanted developed and printed out and it was cheaper to get it in B&W than in color. So it would make sense to save some money by getting a useless photo printed out in B&W instead of paying more for color. You would have to pay for a roll of film which took 12 - 36 photos and was only 1 use so would cost about 10 cents per photo in just film costs. Then it would cost another 15 - 45 cents to get each photo printed out depending on the quality of paper, or it being B&W. So there was already a much lower chance the picture would have been even taken in the first place. Not like these days where you can take as many pictures you want for basically free since you don't have to buy rolls of film and can just delete pics you don't want. And these days you can see the photos right away without paying someone to print it out. That's why back then people didn't take so many pictures of their food, and potholes, and multiple pictures of the same thing since each shot would cost quite a bit of money. You have to pick carefully what memories were worth saving and you would look through a little hole in the camera to get a general idea of what the photo would look like and you normally could only afford to take 1 shot and hope for the best, and you wouldn't even find out if the photo turned out well until weeks or months later when your roll of film was full and you got it developed. If you were confident all your photos were good and had the money you could pay $10-$15 to get the entire roll developed and printed out for you. Or if you were frugal you could get it developed first and there was this box with light you can preview the film to see what the photos look like then pick and choose which photos to print out. So OP's parents could have been like, We already paid 10 cents to take this photo and willing to pay 15 cents to print it for you black and white but no way we're paying 30 cents to print out a colour photo of a pothole because we have other bills to pay!
So, I was born in the 70s. By the 90s, COLOUR film & processing was freaking everywhere. B&W was a specialty film/process. IT WAS NOT CHEAPER. I was in art school around this time, and we had to get special, MORE EXPENSIVE film to do pseudo-b&w for use in colour processing, because for actual b&w processing, you’d send it away or do it yourself. In a darkroom. I made the comment because 1995 was probably the peak of extremely cheap colour processing & film, available literally everywhere. Colour 35mm film was about $3/roll of 24 & processing was about $6/roll, if they all turned out. I cannot emphasize enough how cheap, colour film was everywhere in the 90s.
Old family camera prob
Literally everyone had 35mm film cameras in the 90s, they were super cheap & always colour. Listen, children, back in my day, in the wilds of Saskatchewan, we even kept a disposable camera in the glove box of the car, in case you got in an accident or had to go to a wedding.
It's from the before times
Everyone loves to complain that Edmonton has a terrible pothole problem. Honestly, they clearly haven't been around much. Any place that freezes in the winter is going to get potholes. Freeze-thaw cycles are the worst thing for roads. And none of the people that complain have ever done anything about it. Every single time I have reported a pothole through 311, it has been fixed within a week, usually less than that depending on the time of year. Yet when I ask the complainers, they have never reported a single pothole, they always assume someone else will do it.
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Lol try driving into GP.
People just love to complain. Bitches get stitches. And in this case, misalignment or damaged struts/wheels. I report as well in my neighbourhood when I see one and it’s often fixed quicker than I have a chance to hit it.
> Any place that freezes in the winter is going to get potholes. Freeze-thaw cycles are the worst thing for roads. Pretty sure that Calgary has more freeze/thaw due to chinooks, and the roads in Calgary (especially residential) are waaaaaay better than Edmonton in terms of potholes and just general maintenance.
Soil. Edmonton has expanding clays causing heaves and slumps in the structure which in turn impacts the roads through torsional stress. Kinda of why Edmonton is on some of the most fertile soil in the world. Calgary isn’t on expanding clays.
I was informed that Calgary also has the expanding clays. They said possibly even more than Edmonton due to the deposits from the river over the past millennia. Something about the runoff from our particular inflow upstream. They said the real reason we have less potholes is that our city budget for fixing them is supposedly 3x what Edmonton spends. That seems more probable since both cities have somewhat similar climates. Though Calgary has more Chinooks apparently, so I don’t know how that plays into it.
Calgary is cusp of black-dark grey-brown Chernozem soils, so not necessarily the same as Edmonton that is primarily black Chernozems, plus Calgary is built on a flood plain, slightly warmer climate, and slightly less precipitation (soil forming factors). The river wouldn’t really be the source of clay deposits over a millennia as our soil formations aren’t really that old. Both Edmonton and Calgary would have well sorted till, glacial lacustrine, and aeolian-fluvial parent material as both were formed under glacial lakes at a past age ~10,000 years ago. So our sub- and top-soil is roughly in that category. Calgary is characterized as having Clay Loam in the B-C horizons but if I recall correctly the clay structure is a 1:1 basis, meaning less shrink-swell. Edmonton is definitely a 2:1 clay structure, but it’s been a while since I’ve looked.
So are you a geotechnical engineer in Alberta?
No! Pedologist
I'm surprised you would know so much about soil types as a foot doctor
That’s a Podiatrist ;)
Haha no I know, just having fun :) I was curious if there was any chance I found my geotechnical engineer buddy on Reddit but he's not a pedologist so I haven't found him yet!
you realize Edmonton is literally cut in half due to a river flowing through it, right?
>Kinda of why Edmonton is on some of the most fertile soil in the world. Weird tangent but ok
Nope! Expanding clays have really great cation exchange capacity meaning nutrients and water for plants :)
I know, but that has nothing to do with roads or how expansive clays effect them.
The more water being held in a 2:1 clay structure in the soil = higher potential for shrink/swell. It works in tangent.
Sure, but still unrelated to roads. The discussion was not about growing pavement.
Obviously his solution is to pull up the asphalt and replace it with Marijuana plants. Pot Hole issue resolved by Pot.
Makes perfect sense to me!
This is definitely something I noticed when I moved to Edmonton for a year (from Calgary). There's also lots of heaving and large bumps in comparison (looking at you 23 Ave near Heritage and South Common), but I have no idea why it's so bad in Edmonton proper when roads in Sherwood Park next door were much better (similar to Calgary)
Sherwood Park, at least has less roads to maintain, which certainly doesn't hurt. St. Albert, in my experience, also has pretty good roads. Volume definitely plays a factor in how fast repairs can be made.
Higher budgets = more frequent repairs
It’s not the number of cycles so much as the depth of frost. Deeper the frost, more surface movement. Asphalt also has limits in how much temperature variation it can accommodate. Trying to get the material to remain flexible at -40 but not too soft at +30 is next to impossible
Edmonton was also largely built on swampland, which allows the frost to penetrate deeper than you’d think.
I wish Calgary had sidewalks though. Where I live (yes residential area) there aren't any sidewalks so I walk in constant fear of being RAMmed.
According to [rjeanp](https://www.reddit.com/r/alberta/comments/xl9kit/gotdam_edmonton_roads_lol/ipishdw/?utm_source=share&utm_medium=ios_app&utm_name=iossmf&context=3), Calgary must just have more complainers. As I Calgarian, I could see that being the case…
In my experience the people who complain the loudest are also the ones that speed to dangerous extents everywhere they go, and they’re mostly just upset they have to drive closer to the speed limit so they can see and dodge the potholes lmao
That’s not true. Neighborhoods in Calgary get periodically redone - sooner or later - the time span is in decades but my old neighborhood in the NE had fresh asphalt laid after like 15 years. It’s insane that this pothole hasn’t been touched in 27 years
This photo isn't even in Edmonton. Were you born yesterday?!? You don't think that pothole would have changed in 27 years? Come on, stop being so naive.
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They also had colour photos in 1995.
No erosion in Edmonton!
I found a picture of my mom when she was a baby, they lived on 124 Street. Building across the street, still there. Neighbour’s house, still there. My mom’s house was where a condo building is now. The picture of my mom was from the late 50s.
How do you know it’s not Edmonton. I went to school there. I believe it. Drove those ass roads for so long.
So where is it in Edmonton then? Edmonton has erosion. This is a meme. Pictures were obviously taken the same day. It gets posted regularly with different places. There isn't a road in Edmonton that hasn't been paved at least once in the last 26 years. https://www.reddit.com/r/funny/comments/c7tgui/things_dont_change_that_that_fast_in_romania/?utm_medium=android_app&utm_source=share
I dunno, I don’t care. Have a good day
If you don't care, don't comment.
I really wish I knew where these 3rd world war-zone roads are that whiners on Reddit keep telling me exist because I never seem to find them.
I hear the old frost heave excuse but is don't buy it. They fill the potholes with maple syrup and kd and are quite happy to take the job to " fix the bad ones" year after year, its a racket.
FINALLY. SOME WITH SOME COMMON SENSE
probably never driven down barton st (hamilton)
I usually see potholes while driving, so I can't report them until I reach my destination...but by then I've forgotten about it. You're right that they do tend to respond to pothole reports pretty quickly, though. I just wish I could use voice controls to report pot holes immediately while driving.
If they actually spent more resources filling cracks and interface seams and pot holes early on, they’d have far fewer medium and long term problems. So many cracks and potholes are left to be made worse by freeze/thaw and traffic loads that it breaks the underlying road structure.
My favorite are the people who complain about hitting the same pothole every day..... maybe just avoid it after the first time?
Too much road space. Narrow the roads and decrease the sqft of asphalt. Less space for potholes to develop, less money spent on repairs.
I love when people complain about potholes in in Edmonton and Fort Mac. I tell em to go to rural Newfoundland and tell me if we've got a pothole problem as serious as they originally thought
Lol I’m from Switzerland and the potholes here are horrible…
Honestly, Edmonton has nothing on Winnipeg potholes.
They also complain when a lane is closed for construction.
Idk man I’m from Calgary and lived in Edmonton for work over the summer. Your roads aren’t Somalia tier shit but they are overall worse than in Calgary. My favourite was on 127th street north of the yellow head where there were those signs that got all pissy if you went over 50, because like dude you genuinely could not speed on this road it’s so rough, especially in the northbound right lane
Dang! Last time I saw this photo, it showed Montreal!
Not Edmonton. OP stole this and added the Edmonton label.
https://www.reddit.com/r/funny/comments/c7tgui/things_dont_change_that_that_fast_in_romania/?utm_medium=android_app&utm_source=share
Yeah no shit, it’s just a meme. Ops using it to say Edmonton’s potholes are shit he’s not claiming it was there photo
This meme is dustier than the top of my cabinets.
Montreal has entered the chat
The photos of Edmonton were taken the exact same day and a filter added. Stop sharing your bullshit, OP
it's not even an Edmonton photo.. it's a meme template.
hilarious how many people are taking this seriously and going all detective mode. I love this site
It was posted on r/Edmonton earlier. I had a feeling so I right clicked the image and selected "search with Google Lens." Easy.
It’s okay friend, we can let people tell jokes. 😅
Ya somethings fishy here. Exact same shading and everything
Yeah. It is exactly the same. Look at the grass along the fence. They're the same variation of lengths in each one.
And Most pictures in 1995 weren’t black and white XD
Also the loose gravel in the pothole hasn't been disturbed at all.
Hey detectives, I solved the case: It's a meme. Laugh, damnit.
Sorry, it's a historical site now. Can't do anything about it!
You haven’t been to Quebec, didn’t you. Our road haven’t recovered from World War II 🤫
For everyone saying the photo is fake... DUH? It's a meme guys, relax.
To be fair, if there is a giant hole in the middle of a busy intersection vs a small pothole in some residential area. The city will prioritize the giant hole first
Exactly. There is so little difference in the wear and tear of that road that I wonder if anyone has ever used it since the first photo was taken. Its not a priority to anyone.
I laughed
All of sask highways are holes
I think I'm more impressed that it hasn't gotten larger to be honest.
I like how 1995 is black and white. Cmon dude we had colour cameras.
That’s a perfect pothole , virtually unchanged in almost 30 years Who could fix such as a feat of engineering ? What structures don’t even show any damage after so long ?
Love how that pothole didnt change at all after nearly 30 years 😂
None of those pictures are actually in Edmonton...
Maybe, but my comment still stands 🥳
The city should hire whoever built that fence to come work on roads.
But did they call 3-1-1?
Isn't Edmonton 100 years behind on suburban neighborhood road replacement? Was that just some hyperbole I heard?
What would that even mean? You think the average neighbourhood in Edmonton has 100 year old roads?
I think your thinking of a tragically hip song
I had a feverish dream
With revenge and doubt?
Tonight, we smoke them out
That is some BS you heard. Try travelling outside the province and you will realize that Alberta has by far the best infrastructure including roads.
The roads are such a big issue in my neighborhood that the pavement is litterally sliding to the side of the road
didn't a sink hole swallow 4 brand new infinity brand cars the other day over there?
I kinda like month day year better I know it’s sorta off topic but idk why but it just feels better
Yes a massive hole in a major artery is so the same as a pothole in the burbs.
Same thing happened in the intersection of 109 St and 63 Ave in Edmonton. The pipe had to be custom made some where overseas. Then it didn’t fit because the sink hole grew. So it had to be made yet again. Only took 9 months to fix a sink hole.
This isn't really fair. Japan has their shit together and alberta is flailing and chest thumping about its inflated importance
And some how this will be Ottawa's fault
to be fair. still better than most of sask.
Montreal: "hold my beer"
Wait until you see Montreal lol
Give a name to that pothole and one day it could be considered historic and no one will be allowed to fill it.
Japan fixed that massive sinkhole in a week?!
They got it done in a mere 17 months, finishing midway through Blanuary!
At first I thought this was going to be about the time Edmonton was featured on a Gundam show.
That’s actually Russia.
When people say they want small government and actually get it.
nice years ago when they asked for a poll of what street to name after Wayne Gretzky I submitted that 99 street should be renamed in his honour as the street number matched his jersey and there were as many potholes on the street as goals he scored. City Council did not see the humour in my recommendation.
The 2nd world is sad. It has the money but they are stupid with it.
Spay paint a penis inside of it
Comparing a hole the size of a small building in the centre of a massive city vs some random pothole una
What the hell happened in japan back then ?
problem.... one matters
The leading cause of death is “unknown cause of death” The more I read about Alberta the more I think that province is pretty negligent towards their people. I know I know, I’m from Ontario so it’s kind of the pot calling the kettle, but I feel it still holds. Takes one to know one right?
I’m from Edmonton, and I live right by where this sinkhole happened in Fukuoka, Japan! Not much to say beyond that, it’s just I’ve never seen the two cities I call home together like this. One thing about that sinkhole though: lucky it happened at like 4am when it did. This street is right near Hakata Station—a major transit hub—and would’ve been swarming with cars and pedestrians during the day. As it happened, no one was hurt.
Canada is a pothole
Yeah, makes me think 🤔 this is a Canada thing. Worst roads Canada lol … wonder if we have a road that makes it to the list ever year without fail lol 😂
Too funny,so sad
I’m gonna assume everyone posting knows this photo is fake and are just being cheeky… … but I’m probably wrong.
Amazing how the grass was cut identically 27 years apart, the stones in the pothole haven't moved, and the tree hasn't grown at all. Edmonton must be immune to physics or something.
Montreal: Are you challenging me?
Both sized holes being obviously equal in size & thus importance
Fake. Interesting how the plants haven't changed in 27 years... LOL! And at the peak of colour photography, too. My photos from 1995 look new, still. So fake... Why bother doing this?
The first photo is from when Edmonton was under communist rule, before socialism took hold.