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Originally Posted by Acey
Herein lies the problem with having only access to Evanston. Crash on NB Beddington right overhead Stoney, and I'm passing under Beddington on CHB and still can't see the end of the backup. This is not okay.
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Evanston is getting sacrificed on the alter of no intersections allowed ever on the Calgary or Edmonton Ring Roads, the edict from Alberta Transportation.
The city (having blown its MSI funds on Airport Trail Tunnel Project) would like for the developer to pay for part if not all of the intersection at Stoney and 14th street. This is the natural progression for roads in Calgary. However developers do not pay for interchanges (what the province requires). If the city went to province looking for more cash, the province would bring up the afore mentioned MSI arguement.
I do not think the solution for Evanston is the 14th Street interchange because its and interchange does not go anywhere except to small strip mall with Timmies, Co-op Gas Station (all ready got one in Creekside), pub, dance studio, and couple other small retail.
Part of the solution (as mentioned above) is for the city to build out 144th Avenue to Centre street. I believe council can force the developer to pay for upgrade to major road status. Holy smoke I begining to sound like Nenshi.
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Someone get me a purple shirt and tie; put it on Cal Wenzel's tab.
The other part of the solution is to tie in Symons Valley Parkway to Shaganappi Trail and provide a third access point to cross the moat that has become Stoney Trail. Again the developers in the area can pay for the upgrade to major road status.
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Originally Posted by freeweed
This is why I can't understand why anyone would have moved in there.
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Evanston and Kincora were planned prior to the openning of Stoney Trail. It was at the openning of Stoney Tr NW and NE the province issued the no stop light (intersection) edict.
Evanston is not the only community with a traffic problem created by no stop light intersection rule. They are just the only community with this problem in Calgary. In Edmonton, the entire3 SW and West portions of Henday have similar problems. For example in Edmonton the communities are MacEwan and Twin Brooks with no chance of a 2nd interchange being built at 119th street. Edmonton has about half dozen communities with a dog in this hunt.
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Originally Posted by speedog
Is there not a second way in/out via 144th Avenue NW over to Centre Street?
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144th Ave is availablr however its a dirt road from Evanston to Centre Street.