Anthony Henday Drive

[Hallsy's Toupee]

^ I too would love a new Hwy 2 that bypasses St. Albert but I'm not holding my breath:

Nov 21, 2015:
http://www.stalbertgazette.com/article/C...or-twinning-of-Ray-Gibbon-Drive-20151121

June 7, 2016:
http://www.stalbertgazette.com/article/R...e-important-to-future-expansion-20160608

[lubicon]

Originally Posted by Kokkei Mizu

Hopefully the province gets going on Ray Gibbon Drive soon. I was up there recently during rush hour and it took me 20 minutes to go from the Henday to Villeneuve Rd.

Isn't that a municipal responsibility?

[McBoo]

^ Yep, municipal, though they'd love the province to take over!

3 weeks. Looks likle it's pedal to the floor at YHD and SPF. Gonna be close...

A couple of the basketweave bridges are the furthest from being done. Crews were going hard today on 23.4 and 25.2. Nobody was even working on Broadmoor Blvd over Yellowhead today, to me it looks like they're not even going to try and crews will be working elsewhere. Everything south of Baseline Rd looks pretty much alright.

And I have no idea what is going on with that one flyover at Manning that got completely changed. A crew was there still working on it yesterday, anyway.

Hopefully they'll open whatever is ready to go on Oct 1 instead of holding back everything from 6 weeks like Stoney Trail did.

[SHOFEAR]

Traffic yesterday turning northbound from AHD to West bound Yellowhead was a disaster.

Just an FYI....You no longer turn left across the Henday to get onto Yellowhead, you turn right onto the new cloverleaf......so don't get in the left lane or your fucked. If you miss it and then loop up through agrium Road and 17th street you may get once again screwed over by trains loading at Lafarge.

It took me 2.5 hours to get from Beaumont to yellowhead and 97th street.

[Landlocked]

Originally Posted by SHOFEAR

Traffic yesterday turning northbound from AHD to West bound Yellowhead was a disaster.

Just an FYI....You no longer turn left across the Henday to get onto Yellowhead, you turn right onto the new cloverleaf......so don't get in the left lane or your fucked. If you miss it and then loop up through agrium Road and 17th street you may get once again screwed over by trains loading at Lafarge.

It took me 2.5 hours to get from Beaumont to yellowhead and 97th street.

Those trains are terrible in that area. Federal laws related to the maximum amount of time trains are permitted to block roads are broken all the time there.

[sdimedru]

Originally Posted by SHOFEAR

Traffic yesterday turning northbound from AHD to West bound Yellowhead was a disaster.

Just an FYI....You no longer turn left across the Henday to get onto Yellowhead, you turn right onto the new cloverleaf......so don't get in the left lane or your fucked. If you miss it and then loop up through agrium Road and 17th street you may get once again screwed over by trains loading at Lafarge.

It took me 2.5 hours to get from Beaumont to yellowhead and 97th street.

the change from turning left to using the right lane to get onto Yellowhead is months old... I'm waiting for the petroleum way to 17st to Yellowhead route to open back up.... that is a nice option.... although soon enough It'll just be AHD the whole way for me coming from Broadmoor

The flyover for NB Henday to WB Yellowhead is only one lane and not built wide enough for 2 lanes. They're going to regret that. Anybody who has seen the WB-SB flyover at Henday/Yellowhead in the west knows why... it takes about 5 minutes to travel the length of the single lane flyover during the afternoon rush as it grinds to a halt, but that flyover can be easily widened to 2 lanes.

Lights up under SPF tonight as if crews were to be working on the MSE walls there that are less than half done... but there was nobody there.

West MSE wall at SPF is done and the caps are curing, east one is about 2/3 of the way up. Work seemed to be concentrated in 3 areas this afternoon: mega crew working on bridge 25.2 which still needs a ton of work and fill in the immediate vicinity; a fairly big crew was paving NB mainline between Whitemud and SPF, and another big crew was working on 23.4 and filling between it and the river.

[Hallsy's Toupee]

Traffic on southwest leg of Henday nearly double projections, officials looking at ways to ease congestion

http://edmonton.ctvnews.ca/traffic-on-so...ing-at-ways-to-ease-congestion-1.3069400

The Anthony Henday Drive ring road has not yet been completed, but officials are already looking ahead to expanding a busy section of that freeway.

The province says the southwest leg of Anthony Henday Drive has become the victim of its own success – as once the freeway was built, communities around it grew quickly.

“Southwest is pretty well at capacity now,” Bill Van Der Meer, Project manager, said.

“Over a few years it will probably show increases of all parts of the ring road.”

According to a recent survey by the City of Edmonton, the population of the city has increased fifteen percent since 2009, to less than 900,000.

For the southwest section of Anthony Henday Drive, about 75,000 vehicles are on it every day – nearly double projections of 40,000 vehicles.

“At the end of the day, the city is growing and getting more and more people, more cars, and traffic is going to get worse,” Councillor Michael Oshry said.

There is no perfect or quick solution to traffic congestion; police say there are things motorists can do to help.

“My experience while I’m in my police car, [drivers are] very courteous,” Andrew Gildart, an officer with Strathcona County RCMP said. “[In my] personal vehicle, it seems it’s frustrating, people don’t move over for you.

“When I’m on a merge, trying to merge onto the highway, and again you’ve got to remember the merge is used to increase your speed to get up to the speed you need to be getting onto the highway.”

As for the roadway itself, Van Der Meer said officials are looking at expanding the roadway, and adding lanes – however, there are no firm plans yet, money for such a project has not yet been budgeted.

[edmontonoilers89]

Originally Posted by Hallsy's Toupee

Traffic on southwest leg of Henday nearly double projections, officials looking at ways to ease congestion

http://edmonton.ctvnews.ca/traffic-on-so...ing-at-ways-to-ease-congestion-1.3069400

Just awful planning. Even 10 years ago when this thing was getting built, it seemed very short sighted to build a two-lane ring road. I mean really?

Did the city/province reasonably think that with our love of sprawl and subdivisions, that new communities wouldn't pop up on the other side of the Henday. The SW is a cluster, especially when going from the QE2 to merge onto the SW Henday during peak hours.

Eastbound SPF to NB Henday ramp tentatively scheduled to open Sept 27.

[sdimedru]

Originally Posted by edmontonoilers89

Just awful planning. Even 10 years ago when this thing was getting built, it seemed very short sighted to build a two-lane ring road. I mean really?

Did the city/province reasonably think that with our love of sprawl and subdivisions, that new communities wouldn't pop up on the other side of the Henday. The SW is a cluster, especially when going from the QE2 to merge onto the SW Henday during peak hours.

Isn't the Yellowhead due for some love ($$) from the province before we go back and make improvements for the SW leg?

[CMD UW]

Originally Posted by edmontonoilers89

Just awful planning. Even 10 years ago when this thing was getting built, it seemed very short sighted to build a two-lane ring road. I mean really?

Did the city/province reasonably think that with our love of sprawl and subdivisions, that new communities wouldn't pop up on the other side of the Henday. The SW is a cluster, especially when going from the QE2 to merge onto the SW Henday during peak hours.

The issue is that growth exceed what was projected back then. It's always easy to look back and say would have / should have, but it is what it is. They'll figure out a way to deal with it.

[feepa]

It was planned around 2001. Build out started around 2006. Growth at this level was not expected.
If it was overbuilt, you'd have even more people complaining about where that money should've been spent. (I can already hear the cries of "what about the homeless" "what about the inner city" "would've been better spent on LRT" "what about potholes" "fix yellowhead first" etc etc)

[sdimedru]

Originally Posted by feepa

It was planned around 2001. Build out started around 2006. Growth at this level was not expected.
If it was overbuilt, you'd have even more people complaining about where that money should've been spent. (I can already hear the cries of "what about the homeless" "what about the inner city" "would've been better spent on LRT" "what about potholes" "fix yellowhead first" etc etc)

there's no shortage of complainers that's for sure!

Originally Posted by sdimedru

Isn't the Yellowhead due for some love ($$) from the province before we go back and make improvements for the SW leg?

Neither has funding scheduled or any sort of timeline. Fixing Henday is going to be far cheaper than fixing Yellowhead.

[feepa]

^ Funding for the yellowhead in the works it seems: http://www.630ched.com/2016/07/22/sohi/