Regina Construction

[Boris2k7]

Just for Planner2008's info, building any more expressways through Calgary could have and would be a huge mistake. We don't need to encourage any more people to drive downtown, and it would just turn the downtown core into a giant bottleneck as you can't expand the roads at that end either. The city also has been putting many efforts over the years to discourage commuting to the core using cars by jacking up the parking rates. And the expressways we are left with are ugly, unfriendly, and limit the fuller development of different areas of downtown by presenting problems both in regards to access issues as well as to street frontage and the movement of pedestrians.

And we did think 10 or 20 years ahead, by being one of the first North American cities to build a light rail system that, along with our bus system, now captures over 50% of downtown commuters. That has also taken over 100,000 would-be car drivers off the road, and can really only go up as the number of lines and transit capacity both increase.