An unknown person found a creative way to express their relief that the last section of the Anthony Henday Drive is open — displaying a vulgar saying on one of the city's electronic signs.

A video posted to Facebook Saturday night shows an electronic sign on a highway notifying drivers of the last section of the ring road is now open, followed by a self-congratulatory "we done bitches" for all motorists to see. The sign was westbound on Yellowhead Trail, just past Clover Bar Road.

A few Edmontonians took to Twitter to share their thoughts on the sign.

Only in Alberta do you see road signs that say "we done bitches" —@BrandieLMercer

Heading out of <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/shpk?src=hash">#shpk</a> on yellowhead & the electronic sign says "Anthony Henday now open" next screen flashes "we done bitches". Haha awesome! —@dwilsy

To the person that had the Construction sign display "We Done Bitches" on the <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/yellowhead?src=hash">#yellowhead</a> <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/AnthonyHenday?src=hash">#AnthonyHenday</a> xchange this morning. We salute you —@editor321

"Only in Alberta do you see road signs that say 'We done bitches,'" writes one person. Another person says the sign is "awesome."

Shauna Stelmaschuk took the video.

She said her family decided to take a tour of the newly-finished ring road when she read the sign aloud in the vehicle.

"We couldn't believe what we saw," Stelmaschuk said. "We all laughed and took it as good humour."

Construction is finally over

Construction of the last leg of the Anthony Henday began in 2012, but the first section of the ring road was built in the early 1970s. The northeast section opened to the public Saturday, and several dignitaries were on-hand to celebrate the conclusion of Alberta's first fully-completed ring road.

The 27-kilometre, $1.8 billion-dollar section of the road means Edmontonians have 80 kilometres of free-flow traffic with little obstruction — this comes as a huge relief to many drivers, including provincial transportation minister Brian Mason.

"[This will] improve the quality of life and the economy of communities around Alberta," Mason said Saturday.

Stelmaschuk imagined the person behind the message thought the same thing, but expressed it in a different way. "I think that person, in humour, hopefully, just saw it as 'we're done, we're here, let's carry on,'" she said.

Government response

Mason and Alberta Transportation have seen the video, and are working to correct it.

"Two thousand people worked very hard to bring this project to completion, and there's obviously a lot of pride in that work," Mason's press secretary Aileen Machell said in a written statement. "It seems someone changed the sign as part of the celebrations, however the wording is not the kind we would use and we had it changed immediately."

The use of the vulgar language may strike up a sensitivity with the public, especially considering the recent verbal attacks on Premier Rachel Notley and other female politicians.

But Stelmaschuk said that wasn't going through her mind when she saw the video. "The language is not something I would want my children to repeat," she said. "I understand [the criticism], but to be very honest it was not my initial reaction.

"I didn't take offense to it at all."