Calgary Roads

[Nudrock]

Shepard road will get a better connection with 86 ave (hopefully) and on to that traffic circle.

[andasen]

Originally Posted by Doug

What happens to Shepherd Road?

Originally Posted by Nudrock

Shepard road will get a better connection with 86 ave (hopefully) and on to that traffic circle.

Looking like this



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[Full Mountain]

Originally Posted by andasen

Looking like this



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Why wouldn't they have a right out on the Shepard/86th curve rather than turning Shepard into a cul-de-sac?

[Calgarian]

I still can't believe they aren't connecting Riverbend to 24th street as was originally planned 20 some years ago. I think the people on Riverstone Rd somehow managed to have that blocked despite being in the original plans when they bought those houses.

Glad to see a plan on this though, this is a — of an interchange currently.

[You Need A Thneed]

Not technically City of Calgary, but it appears that Peigan Trail is close to being ready to open between 84th St SE, and 100th Street SE.

When Peigan extends all the way to Chestermere, I can understand the point. But I don't understand the point of extending Peigan only to 100th. Frontier Road is a couple hundred meters south, and already extend between 84th and 100th, and has very little traffic.

[DizzyEdge]

Are there any plans for an interchange at Barlow and Glenmore?

[You Need A Thneed]

I don't think I've seen it mentioned here - Glenmore under Blackfoot has had it's construction one removed - finally.

[srperrycgy]

Originally Posted by You Need A Thneed

I don't think I've seen it mentioned here - Glenmore under Blackfoot has had it's construction one removed - finally.

That project took far too long to complete. Glenmore was a pain with the reduced speed that almost everyone ignored and Blackfoot was bad for the abrupt lane shifts.

[googspecial]

I've recently started driving Stoney NE, and am curious if anyone here knows where a connection at the top right corner would head to?

This is all I can seem to find on the net during my lunch break:
http://www.transportation.alberta.ca/Content/docType490/production/ef-m6u.pdf

To me, a Hwy 9 extension to Drumheller makes sense... Is there any actual future road planned here?


EDIT: With the TUC outline from that map, it looks as if there would be a connection North as well as East.

[googspecial]

Originally Posted by 5seconds

Originally there was a plan to connect to Highway 9 by going east, and an extension of the East Freeway (NE and SE side of the ring road) to the north. The extension east to Highway 9 was dropped from the ring road plans (any future extension to Highway 9 would be provided by Country Hills Blvd), while a future extension north to connect with Highway 2 north of Airdrie was part of the planning when the ring road was designed.

The TUC in that area was protected years ago so the land accommodating an east extension is likely a remnant from earlier plans, though in the early 2000s there were alternative routes under consideration, and it's possible that the land will be held on to just in case there is a future need to head east from that location.

Interesting. Yeah I can see how if Country Hills is going to be used, then there is no need to go East on that corner.
At first I thought it was kind of silly to go North there, but the more I think about it, it would be be good to by-pass Deerfoot/Airdrie when driving into the city. (If heading to the East side of the city)

Is there any time-frame for this? 50 years? Plans would likely change anyways...

[You Need A Thneed]

New Plan on the city's website for the Bowfort Road / 16th Ave interchange:

http://www.calgary.ca/Transportation/TP/...rt/bowfort_tch_recommended_plan_2014.pdf

[CTrainDude]

Originally Posted by You Need A Thneed

New Plan on the city's website for the Bowfort Road / 16th Ave interchange:

http://www.calgary.ca/Transportation/TP/...rt/bowfort_tch_recommended_plan_2014.pdf

Who knew they'd ever replicate Glenmore and Macleod? Interesting.

[speedog]

Originally Posted by CTrainDude

Who knew they'd ever replicate Glenmore and Macleod? Interesting.

John Laurie and 14th Street NW is also similar.

[googspecial]

Originally Posted by You Need A Thneed

New Plan on the city's website for the Bowfort Road / 16th Ave interchange:

http://www.calgary.ca/Transportation/TP/...rt/bowfort_tch_recommended_plan_2014.pdf

I dig the SPUI

[ByeByeBaby]

Originally Posted by CTrainDude

Who knew they'd ever replicate Glenmore and Macleod? Interesting.

It's a pretty standard interchange design. Makes a lot of sense here, particularly given the lower volumes on Bowfort Road, especially if there's a special event signal timing for the WB-SB movement.

[Ramsayfarian]

Here's a fun little time waster. Not sure how accurate it is, but I found that max speed and Max acceleration really helps to get traffic flowing. I'm going to tweet the mayor with my findings.

Traffic Simulator

[lubicon]

Originally Posted by Ramsayfarian

Here's a fun little time waster. Not sure how accurate it is, but I found that max speed and Max acceleration really helps to get traffic flowing. I'm going to tweet the mayor with my findings.

Traffic Simulator

Don't we already know that? It's just the other drivers on the road that don't.

[artvandelay]

This might me the stupidest thing I've heard all week, what is the point of having a school zone in effect 5 hours after school is out?

Slowing down for kids is now a 13½-hour daily duty, as council standardized playground and school zone times citywide from 7:30 a.m. to 9 p.m.

No longer will drivers have to estimate when it’s one hour past sunset, which is currently the standard in 30 km/h playground zones. School zones will also no longer end at 5 p.m.

http://www.calgaryherald.com/news/calgar...hool+zone+times+from/10053151/story.html

[Full Mountain]

Originally Posted by artvandelay

This might me the stupidest thing I've heard all week, what is the point of having a school zone in effect 5 hours after school is out?



http://www.calgaryherald.com/news/calgar...hool+zone+times+from/10053151/story.html

Probably because 90+% of drivers are incapable of remembering that playground and school zones have different times and applicable days. IMO every playground and school zone should be 24/7 that way everyone gets in the habit of slowing down around these areas.

Eventually I'd like to see most local roads move from a 50km/h design to a 30km/h design, this would make people feel that they are going faster thereby slowing traffic.

[Cage]

Originally Posted by artvandelay

This might me the stupidest thing I've heard all week, what is the point of having a school zone in effect 5 hours after school is out?

There is a lot of overlap between playground zones and school zones. Example in Arbour Lake there is a playground zone sign, then 10 meters later its a school zone sign. Doesn't really matter where one zone leaves and the other zone starts.

However, don't get too worked up about the bylaw changes. It is not likely that enforcement will have a sustained increase during the new hours for playground and school zones. Not much to get worked up about unless you frequent one for the oddity areas for playground and school zones.

Oddity areas are instances where the zone does not match the road or driver expectations. Example is Elbow Drive with the large number of playground zones without actual playground nearby. Another example is the School Zone on Richard Road. Four lane collector roads should not have school zones. Also the school zone starts around the corner and closer to the Catholic high School. The school zone situation on Richard Road is very confusing and a bug revenue trap for CPS/City.