Deerfoot Southbound Closed

[kenny]

For anyone reading that is about to head home south on Deerfoot, take a different route or stay at work for a bit longer :)



Due to a gasoline tanker truck that has major leak,
Southbound Deerfoot Trail will be closed at 17 Ave SE and
traffic will be diverted east and west at that point. The
tanker ran over a large piece of wood on Deerfoot which
resulted in a puncture in the tank.

This closure will be in effect until the clean-up is
complete. It is anticipated this will be cleaned up at
approximately 6 PM.

[Loud-N-Clear]

Wow... thats gonna be a mess.

[88CRX]

Originally posted by kenny
The
tanker ran over a large piece of wood on Deerfoot which
resulted in a puncture in the tank.





Surprise, surprise.... fucking junk on Deerfoot.

[kenny]

Originally posted by 88CRX
Surprise, surprise.... fucking junk on Deerfoot.

My thoughts exactly. I just wished the piece of wood damaged a vehicle that belonged to someone on city council.

[whiskas]

Hahaha there's always shit all over the place on deerfoot.

In my time I've seen a sofa, mattress and bale of hay laying in the middle of deerfoot.

[aypi]

Originally posted by whiskas
Hahaha there's always shit all over the place on deerfoot.

In my time I've seen a sofa, mattress and bale of hay laying in the middle of deerfoot.

+1 on the sofa, i saw one too in the middle of deerfoot! :thumbsdow

[MackDawg]

My old high school teacher ran over a truck axel that fell off a truck on the way to the scrap yard in her 2 week old BMW.

[Z_Fan]

Took me 110 minutes to get home from McKnight.

Left McKnight area at 3:00PM. Got hom at 4:50PM. It is usually an 18 minute trip. (25 minutes on a bad day at that time)

Un-fawk-in-believable.

Been in Calgary for 20+ years and that's the worst clusterfuck I've ever seen for those trying to get to the SE from the NE.

[SikAssR1]

Originally posted by kenny
For anyone reading that is about to head home south on Deerfoot, take a different route or stay at work for a bit longer :)

Due to a gasoline tanker truck that has major leak,
Southbound Deerfoot Trail will be closed at 17 Ave SE and
traffic will be diverted east and west at that point. The
tanker ran over a large piece of wood on Deerfoot which
resulted in a puncture in the tank.

This closure will be in effect until the clean-up is
complete. It is anticipated this will be cleaned up at
approximately 6 PM.

which will also cause damn rubberneckers on northbound.

[bspot]

F*cking people who don't tie their loads down. It's unbelievable. I love seeing people getting pulled over for it.

[Tik-Tok]

A piece of WOOD punctured a gas tanker? I would have thought they'd build them better than that.

[max_boost]

Oh it was a mess alright. I was lucky to be only stuck for 30 mins on Deerfoot south, it could have been much worse for me. It's backed up everywhere!!!

[canadian_hustla]

apparently it has been cleaned up
:clap:

[e36bmw///]

nm

[dj_rice]

Deerfoot South has been reopened






Date: Thu May 31 17:17:49 2007
Subject: Southbound Deerfoot at 17 Ave SE Reopen
From: Duty Inspector

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Southbound Deerfoot Trail is reopen at 17 Ave SE.

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[silver_gs-R]

thank god I didnt have to go thru that mess, but I agree with you all of you guys, some of the shit on deerfoor sometimes I mean wow.

i saw a mattress right underneath 17th ave just this past weekend.

[88CRX]

HOLY-CLUSTER-FUCK-TRAFFIC-EVERYWHERE

Had a nice hour and a half drive home.... McLeod Trail was crazy backed up into downtown :thumbsdow

[Ben]

Originally posted by Z_Fan
Took me 110 minutes to get home from McKnight.

Left McKnight area at 3:00PM. Got hom at 4:50PM. It is usually an 18 minute trip. (25 minutes on a bad day at that time)

Un-fawk-in-believable.

Been in Calgary for 20+ years and that's the worst clusterfuck I've ever seen for those trying to get to the SE from the NE.

Same here, left McKnight at 3:30, home by 5:10. Late for my appointment. Yesterday was 70min. That compounded with some brilliant idea to do "Lets park the Train" on sheppard road for all the people that went barlow/ogden road as an alternate after sweating their ass off for an hour and 20 minutes to get 6km

FUCK CALGARY!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Cant wait to get the fuck out of this overswelling overrated overpopulated peice of fuck town!

[KoukiS14]

Did you drink your 2 liters of Haterade today Ben?

[Ben]

Originally posted by KoukiS14
Did you drink your 2 liters of Haterade today? None today...till 5:15 when I downed 8L of Hatorade.

[Ihatetowait]

With the closure on Centre st between 12th and 16th its a mess in my area. It takes me an hour to get 3 blocks on 12th at 5:00.

Alot of time I just drive around the mess and take my car up over a curb on some guys lawn, its bullshit.

They block off every single entrance to the area, and then they close centre st as to not allow any other way into my area.

City planners are DEE DEE DEE>

[Supa Dexta]

I blame the oil companies.. !

It's clearly another ploy to raise gas prices, by dumping it all over deer foot.. fuckin pertro can ran out of reg today and wouldn't sell premium lower... what a scam... :guns:

[QuasarCav]

I heard the news on the radio at around quarter to four and I knew I was fucked. I took 16th out to Chestermere and came in on Glenmore but a truck broke down near the Dairy Queen that really held things up.

1 hour and 40 minutes from 32nd to Anderson.

[sputnik]

Originally posted by Ben
Cant wait to get the fuck out of this overswelling overrated overpopulated peice of fuck town!

Moving to Saskatoon?

Heh.

[danlowteg]

Originally posted by sputnik


Moving to Saskatoon?

Heh.

It is cheap enough

Heh.







Unless you wanna buy a hunk of crap condo in calgary for $350,000

[Mibz]

Originally posted by SikAssR1


which will also cause damn rubberneckers on northbound. I was going NB when they first started the clean-up and it was bumper to bumper at 10km for NO REASON. No lane blockage, no idiots merging at 60, nothing. It was just people slowing down and staring at the nifty white stuff the firemen were using.

[929]

I was fortunate to not have to travel the deerfoot today.

An aside; this is a really pissed off town.

[Shaad]

looks like Im missing all the fun in Calgary. It was the same story before I left though.

[Madspinner]

Yeah I remember seeing this too, but I was heading north when I saw it,but it was still a traffic jam, but it was backup everywhere, even on edmonton trail.
I also heard that a truck got stuck under the over pass at memorial.

[Team_Mclaren]

Originally posted by sputnik


Moving to Saskatoon?

Heh.

lol, thats exactly what i was thinking. :rofl:

[stevo 27]

driving with my friends down deerfoot north right by miknight
theres a old chev with 2 diffs in the bed one looked to close the the back no tailgate so i figured they woulda been tied down but still looked sketchy so i pull into the far right lane and 2 secound later what do you know a 300lbs 14 bolt rear end (guessin thats what it was cause it was big) fuckin flys out the back end lucky nobody was right behind :eek:

[inline6turbo]

i heard this on the radio today at work, lucky enough i didnt have to deal with it, being off at 7 and all, but i knew it would be a cluster fuck.
i wanted to see the nifty white stuff...:bigpimp:

[Ben]

You could smell Diesel from 16th Ave. And from 16th Ave to 17th Ave it was a good solid hour of incubating in the heat, enjoying the stink of Diesel and overheating vehicles, and depressing my heavy AWD clutch about 1000 times.

I'll probably go homicidal if there's another clusterfuck going home tomorrow...and it's Friday...there's been an accident on southbound deerfoot, 19 of the past 24 weeks excluding when I was out of the country. (yes, I actually took the time to chart it in my Outlook calender out of pure morbid curiosity.)

Another interesting tidbit, 7 of the past 10 involved Large Trucks and Tractor Trailors.

BAN +1 during rush hour

[TomcoPDR]

Oh great, now all the gas stations in the South are going to raise their prices by $0.20/litre cause of the shortage in supply from this spill. :cry:

If I was there, I probably would had gotten out the bountie, help with the clean up, and rinse all the gas outta the towels once I get home.

[sexualbanana]

It was great. Left work at 5:00. Took a detour that too me back to where I started at 5:30 and started on another route.