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Originally Posted by morty
They're only between Chevrier and Plaza so far. It looks like they're adding more whenever they repave sections of Pembina. It, unfortunately, does nothing about the truly dangerous parts for cyclists, which are the Jubilee underpass and the Bishop Grandin overpass.
I went to the open house for the Jubilee underpass last year, and the widening proposals (to add a third northbound lane) were all linked to the rapid transit bridge that will go between the two existing bridges. There is, however, no money for the widening in the Capital budget until after 2018. All these projects are linked together, it's a real shame that they aren't planned together.
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I seen that too, about the $6M in funding for Jubilee underpass not until 2018. They have already put together about $20M in funding just for the underpass. Now working through the functional designs, there was a bit of sticker shock on the replacement costs.
If the Stage 2 of BRT is to be completed by 2018, I think the $6M in funding is to top off the final construction costs. Or it was an error because the city definitely is not waiting until 2018 to start work on the underpass. More like spring 2014 i'm thinking.
Those 2 AT bottlenecks will be solved during Stage 2 of BRT construction. Once the Bishop Grandin/Kenaston interchange is completed in 2014 and these projects are completed, there will be quite a nice network of AT in that area!