have I mentioned all the other industries.....

[jazz]

farma, the stadium and the bypass were all politics. We now have a by pass that swings out 5 miles out of Regina that cost 2B dollars. They could have put it closer to the city which will never grow to more than maybe 250,000 people saved a billion and built a new hospital or two in the province.

Same as the stadium. Do you know there was another proposal for the same amount that included a $100M retrofit for Taylor, a $100M new indoor hockey rink and multipurpose center and another $100M to build a dozen new elementary and high schools in the city? Yeah that was rejected for a stadium that cant even fill its seats in July and sits empty with snow drifts on it the rest of the yr.

[farmaholic]

I appreciate the overpasses built east of Regina and have used the bypass to Highway33/Arcola numerous times already. That's as far as I can go until the rest is opened up.

Regarding Pilot Butte, Hiway 48 and Balgonie overpasses.....what are lives worth?
But I suspect it's nothing that couldn't have been solved with lower speeds and traffic lights.
How could connecting the #1 And 11 on the west side of Regina be a bad thing?

The projects are there now and will be for generations, so maybe the cost of them needs to be spread out that long as well.

Buying farmland at $3,000-3,800/ ac. doesn't make a lick of sense but people are still doing it too!

Edit in....a bigger crime is the Rider's have to pay a stoopid amount of money for Humpty Dumpty Collaros to sit on the sidelines. NEVER should have signed him. He was a "hand-me-down" quarterback.....used up. Said it from day one.

[SASKFARMER]

I’m going to chime in. **** the shit with the bypass I use it every day. Use to hate having to slow down and crawl past the Balgonie or white city or pilot butte car crashes looking at some body covered with a blanket knowing some one is dead again.

Enough of this bullshit. People died and lots of them because of stupid planing since day one.

The old NDP let’s keep it at a million and be a have not province attitude.

Yes the stadium was a stupid built open air idea. We live in Saskatchewan and needed a all season stadium.

Now let’s look at debt 100 billion Alberta.

Manitoba is what 40 billion

Our total debt including the kitchen sink is 20.

We were never bankrupt in Saskatchewan like Roy and Edd wanted many to believe.

It was a political joke and it worked.

Sort of like the bypass and stadium joke of today.

When NDP have nothing they make shit up.

If farmers think the NDP will look after them I have ocean front property in Arizona.

The unions want them back and you will get piss all.

Yes industry in canada is a welfare pig that lives off he gov tit.

But farmers and their high and mighty we want fair markets and no subsidy got us to this place.

The market isn’t fair because the big boys control it.

Our useless organizations do f$&k all to help farmers.

Same idiots run for different boards and do jack shit.

We let this happen now we have to deal with it.

Watch Trudeau will help Richardsons or Cargill before us.

We get a F$&king loan.

Sad really.

[jazz]

The Balgonie portion is just a small part of the bypass. Take a swing 5 miles south of town and take a look. You see a reason to built something that goes out that far? Someone did a test. Takes the same amount of time to crawl down Vic to the RR and out as it does to drive the new bypass that swings way out of town. Unbelievable poor planning and waste of money. Could have easily trimmed $500M off that project and had the same function.

[farmaholic]

I've been south down the #6 and west on the old #1 to the "spaghetti" overpass. Ya it's more intense there but....

For ****'s sake, the east side already has the City expansion pushing up against it. The south side will fill too, may take a generation or two but it will fill. The best thing will be improved traffic flow and hopefully safety.

One thing I don't like east of Regina is there is no access to the area south of the #1 highway from the west bound lane once you're on the #1 between the 48 and Pilot Butte overpasses. "Service road" access only...got to get on it to get access to that area. Two additional options to get into that area in the east bound lane of the #1.

I do understand why though. They don't want same plain traffic having to cross the east bound lane to access that area. That would have negated the purpose of safety provided by building the overpasses at Pilot Butte and Hiway 48.

[the big wheel]

The Balgonie portion is just a small part of the bypass. Take a swing 5 miles south of town and take a look. You see a reason to built something that goes out that far? Someone did a test. Takes the same amount of time to crawl down Vic to the RR and out as it does to drive the new bypass that swings way out of town. Unbelievable poor planning and waste of money. Could have easily trimmed $500M off that project and had the same function.

That’s exactly right in fact many other options were even cheaper than that. Not to mention the friends of Wally and co that made millions on paper duping people on the land deals.

Yes an argument can be made for safety there but there aren’t near as many lives saved there as could have been spent on improving rural access to healthcare. Either no facilities, or facilities but no one to run it. And if you survive waiting to get called to the city good chance the highway will kill you if you have to rush in. And that has happened many times. Talk to ambulance drivers!!
Stadium vs rural health care???? Which one?

It was all done as this grand show of how rich we were prior to the election the minute the election was over who got the bill and were still paying I can’t believe all that pst and we’re still broke?

Sask I agree with you what the liberals and ndp did and doing. But please show me something to suggest the conservatives and sask party are going to do to improve on our ag issues?

[bucket]

Regarding the bypasses.....

That was just poor city and Highway planning....I am sort of surprised with SF3 on this...he knows the interstate highways in the US do not allow development up to them...

If you want gas you are making an exit well off the highway...

[farmaholic]

I suppose we could spend the entire Sask budget on health care, isn't it taking the lion's share already?
We've implemented STARS to help with emergency transportation.
Health care has become a milked industry, at both ends of the spectrum(And probably everything in between).
Maybe time for a bit of user pay for the ones who run to the doctor because they sneezed or have an itchy ass.
I've taken a person to emergency one night(8:30 p.m.) to a rural hospital, quiet as a morgue. Nurses all at the nursing station chatting away. Dr. on call. I guess it's a good thing they weren't hoping busy!!!

Our whole Province has seen consolidation in just about everything, evolution, technical advances, etc changed the landscape. A huge shift from rural to urban. Towns and supporting businesses every 8 miles apart......horse and buggy days. People went to the "city" once a month, now people commute to work there and think nothing of it.

I think some remote areas outside commuting distance to cities(or larger rural centers)aren't done emptying out yet. Sad but true. And the fewer people in those areas the less need for supporting businesses and harder for any business to stay in business. And then there is the lack of social interaction, or things to do socially, in those sparsely populated remote areas.

The Saskatchewan outback......

[jazz]

For ****'s sake, the east side already has the City expansion pushing up against it. The south side will fill too, may take a generation or two but it will fill. The best thing will be improved traffic flow and hopefully safety.

farma there is enough land between the city and the new bypass to fit a second regina in there. I don't see that ever happening in a province that struggles to maintain a million people. Way way over built.

[bucket]

I appreciate the overpasses built east of Regina and have used the bypass to Highway33/Arcola numerous times already. That's as far as I can go until the rest is opened up.

Regarding Pilot Butte, Hiway 48 and Balgonie overpasses.....what are lives worth?
But I suspect it's nothing that couldn't have been solved with lower speeds and traffic lights.
How could connecting the #1 And 11 on the west side of Regina be a bad thing? .

Well they are now putting passing lanes in north of moose jaw because of the new potash plant at Bethune...


If you wanted to get to highway 11 you could drive 20 minutes west and head north and come out at Chamberlain...an a highway that should have been twinned when the thought of the Bethune mine was a go....

Better money would have been spent twinning Moose Jaw to chamberlain....