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Originally Posted by Mazrim
I hate to tell you this, but every time you upgrade an interchange, the problem will always move to the next worst point. If they fix Anderson, then Deerfoot still sucks because of the terrible weave between Memorial and 17th Avenue. Then it moves up North even more if they fix that. 37th and Glenmore being fixed now moves the problem to Highway 8, but that's still better than just leaving it and doing it all at once.
Upgrading Glenmore will make a noticeable difference, guaranteed. The Anderson/Bow Bottom/Deerfoot interchange is an even bigger challenge to upgrade, but the volumes definitely dictate that Glenmore is in more need of upgrades at this pont.
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I understand what you are saying about bottlenecks, but at the same time if you get rid of the first one, the second one isn't quite as bad (otherwise it would be the original bottleneck). If they fix Anderson going south, then traffic improves signifcantly IMO. of course how they do that exactly is difficult, with southland drive right there as well. past Anderson its better. if they fixed that area and had it 3 lanes over the bridge where is the next bottleneck going south?
before Anderson its glenmore, but that would only improve (I think) if Anderson/southland was fixed.
going north, yep glenmore again is a bottleneck, and it could be just as bad with more traffic flowing to it.
So I agree going northbound it may not fix things as much as people hope, but I think going south it would.
of course I don't know what they could do aside from cutting off southland access or having a dedicated lane off of southland that flows into Anderson (for those that aren't going blackfoot->southland->deerfoot south