Quote:
Originally Posted by Acey
...
Nobody important is saying it will.
...
Calgary and Edmonton's ring roads have different utility, i.e. ours is less useful for intracity trips. Just the geography of the city.
|
Your tone detracts from your message. It's not geography, the roads are pretty much a series of continuous interchanges providing so much access to the city. The majority of trips on these roads are intracity, because the highways were designed to facilitate people driving single occupant vehicles for work commutes/etc.
An argument could also be made that the other legs also predominately have intracity trips too, not bypasses, don't have the data, again because so much access was provided with interchanges. Almost every single arterial road has ring road access, not just main roads for example like 1/16 Ave, 8/Glenmore, and I'd throw in an Airport Trail/564 Delcour. Lots of land for freeways and people have to money to pay higher taxes making up for that land not earning property tax for the city.