Highways in Canada

[Doug]

Originally Posted by middeljohn

No idea. I don't know Calgary enough to know when it was built, just that I passed a few of them (although they're by far the minority, most are either parclos or diamonds).

One that's really unique about Calgary is they have a whole bunch of collector roads that seem to alternate between grade-level and freeway. It's by far the most car-oriented city I've seen in Canada.

I can think of one remaining cloverleaf in Calgary, at Barlow and 16th. Lots of parclos.

Calgary's roads alternate between freeway and at grade because of changes made to routings after community protests in the 70's as well as the boom-bust economy which left many projects incomplete.

I would think Kelowna, Edmonton, Saskatoon, Regina, KW, London, Quebec City and maybe even Ottawa are similar in car orientation to Calgary. Calgary has far worse traffic than any city outside the big 3, but that is due to geography (hills, rivers, parks, railway tracks, native reservation) that creates bottlenecks, centralized destinations and likely wealth.

Edmonton commutes are shorter timewise because employment destinations are more dispersed.