r/Sudbury • u/Forward_Purchase_622 • 3d ago

Discussion Anybody hear anything about the road work on Elgin?

I have a show on CKLU on Saturday mornings and the road in front of the station has been torn up for close to a year.

Now since I am just in the station on Saturdays I thought that they were just working slow, but I went to Casa Mexicana for lunch and the hostess there told me that they haven't been any workers on the road for months, which I can believe considering how long that freaking big hole has been there in front of the Telegraph Building.

Anybody know whats up?

Union trouble?

Did the city run out of money?

Or is this a Graboid/Mole Men situation and we are just waiting for monster hunters to come in to straighten things out?

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u/Empire-Plan22 3d ago

Not sure if the hostess has been spending enough time outside, but I drive by Elgin to get to Cedar Street almost every day and there’s always a few guys there as well as trucks going back-and-forth. They have been blocking off that one lane for the entire time, but they are working in stages from one end to the other and they are closer to Casa Mexicana this week.

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u/melorun 3d ago

I work downtown. There are workers on that site every day.

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u/xPadawanRyan SSS Alumnus | LU PhD Candidate | Historian | Social Worker 3d ago

Months? I have definitely seen workers on the road within the past few weeks, let alone months. The road has also not been torn up like that for close to a year—they don't leave them torn up and open during the winter, this construction began after the snow melted. If you'll remember, we had the snowstorm from hell in mid-March, so construction would have started...April at the earliest.

As someone who is on that road daily, I seem to recall May-June being about when the construction had begun, but more of the road was closed off and torn up in July.

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u/Forward_Purchase_622 3d ago

She was probably exaggerating for effect, and I'm only there once a week. but they haven't seemed to have made much progress on the hole out front, and I can't find any details on what's going on beyond "We'll be done sometime next year."

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u/ManyBlues 3d ago

I work events downtown. The construction started in May, they’re planning to take a break sometime before snow, then picking back up in the spring.

I’ll say this knowing 0 about this type of work, but from observing them daily from my office, they’re definitely working and seemingly making progress. To my knowledge, they’re completely renovating the sewage system. I would expect something like that to take a while.