Making a damage claim with the City of Calgary

[Danaldson]

Re: Making a damage claim with the City of Calgary

Lol challenge accepted anyone???

hold my beer?

[kujiwara]

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Lol challenge accepted anyone???

That peak will rip your engine out... Along with your tranny and gas tank

[Lance]

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http://www.calgaryherald.com/swerve/...479/story.html

Does that photo look like it was taken in a familiar spot?

[hooddub]

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This thread is starting to get dangerous lol soon we are all going to be making YouTube videos taking rally cars over all the heaves around town. There's a bad one on Anderson east just after you pass elbow but it's marked.

[ToXicXxX]

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This thread is starting to get dangerous lol soon we are all going to be making YouTube videos taking rally cars over all the heaves around town. There's a bad one on Anderson east just after you pass elbow but it's marked.

I've always wanted to see a GC8D get air...

[Lance]

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So a bit of an update, drove on John Laurie today (not in my car), there is now one of those large signs that display messages. I noticed in my pictures that there was a rough road/bumps sign that is about ~100 or so meters before the first bump. It is in the median so if you are in the right lane (like I was) with traffic or a large vehicle next to you (like I was) you will probably not see it. I hope since it's in the other lane that the city is liable.

So I suppose the city DID know about it, they have since improved warnings. I haven't heard anything back from the adjuster yet, I'll post the response when I do.

[graham_f]

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i drive john laurie prob 7 or 8 times a week to and from work. I've been watching that monster grow for a while, and From my own experience it seems to be best of you stick to the left hand lane when driving east and again when going back west. I'm not sure if its any smoother but the peaks and dips in the road seem to be spaced in such as way that my car doesn't bottom out. When I'm in the right lanes i touch in both directions.

Now if you keep going east all the way on john laurie/mcknight, the section between the airport and the golf course just past deerfoot... you have a new kind of death waiting to happen. Not really frost heaves, more like a series of fault lines that make some crazy dips in the road. The sign says reduce your speed. I do like 30 and still touch the pan to the ground. People don't really like me over there

[Lance]

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So last week I finally got a reply from the city (apparently they never got my first email), my claim was declined.

According to the adjuster it was declined because the city was unaware of the frost heave formation and are not liable due to it not being negligence. I have since sent a reply and to sum it up;
1) There was a rough rough sign placed in the median that was not visible at the time to drivers in the left lane,
2) Are rough road signs not put out by City of Calgary employees?
3) The same week of my claim (post incident) a larger electronic sign was put out AND the Calgary Herald released an article about frost heaves with the exact same spot I broke my oil pan at as the headline picture.

Once again, I'll keep this updated with their next response

[BaggedGLI]

Re: Making a damage claim with the City of Calgary

Talk with the Calgary Herald and let them know the city is denying your claim.

[Lance]

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Talk with the Calgary Herald and let them know the city is denying your claim.

I'm considering it

[onceover]

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Not surprised. Gotta hate the city for this kind of crap

[Jester B]

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So.....we have established they were frost heaves, right? And now that the frost has come out of the ground, the road is "normal", right? So help me understand how I as a taxpayer should pay for damage through a City claim. Most of the roads noted above had frost issues. Most drivers recognized them and slowed down. Is your car lowered? All evidence provided above shows cars hitting the heave, talk about jumping off the heave, etc. At the posted 70 km/h if it was a "problem", there would have been a bunch of cars off to the side, or trails of oil. I'm guessing your car is lowered, or you were going well above 70. Either way, you don't deserve any of my tax dollars.


Jeff

[witchcraftz]

Re: Making a damage claim with the City of Calgary

To quote myself from earlier:

The city will only be liable when they know of a problem but haven't fixed it yet.

I can't remember where I pulled this from but it was from a Canada government website. It seems you are within your rights to get a refund based on a valid claim. Maybe call the city and ask about them referring you to the rules that govern this kind of claim.

[Lance]

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Jeff,

Yes most people who travel on those roads frequently probably know where every indent, bump and crack are. I am not one of those people. I was driving at the speed limit in my car that is slightly lowered. I have looked at the Alberta Traffic Safety Act, and if you can correct me and find where it says my car is illegal then yeah, I'll accept defeat and stop the claim. But I have looked at the Traffic Safety Act and have found the appropriate sub-section that acknowledges that my car at which the height it is at, is not illegal.

Maybe I don't deserve YOUR tax dollars. But if you have issue with it then write a letter to your alderman and/or send me a PM. I'm not looking for a fight, if I didn't think this was something the city should have done something more about I wouldn't have made a claim. I have broken more than one oil pan in the past few years and I have never claimed anything until this time.

[Kane]

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If your car is lowered at all you're not going to get a dime from the city. City doesn't open up their cheque book to easy if it was a stock car and you had all the proper documentation. They're just going to keep telling you to go pound salt. Sucks that it happened, but thats the price we pay with lowered cars and bending wheels with stretched tires (not that you did but happens with these roads and "pothole season".) It's still worth it in the end to have a good looking vehicle though.

Keep fighting it to prove me wrong but imagine how many claims they get coming through. Frost heaves isn't something they're going to pay much attention too unless they got like 10 calls in that day.

Best of luck.