Both our cities have already mastered sprawl... I don't see the ring road as a catalyst.
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Might be good for you, but it isn't for the city. Why do we need ring roads to pander to people who aren't from the city, at the expense of the city itself? If people really needed to get around so bad, they could have as easily created another highway way out in the middle of nowhere so that it doesn't affect the city. This is true for Edmonton or Calgary.
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Good for me & the thousands of others who don't want or need to drive throught he middle of the city, just toget back out on the other side. As for the expense... isn't the province kicking in the vast majority of the funding for these projects ? A 4 lane highway from... say Olds to Canmore would be fantastic, but that is just not going to happen.
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I don't think you know what you are getting yourselves into... rarely if ever has a ring road lightened traffic loads. Any decrease in congestion will be very short term.
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We'll see. The bottleneck isn't at that intersection yet, but when they do the 23rd street interchange & figure out what they're going to do with the massive strip mall down the meridian between Cgy trail and Gateway, the Whitemud interchange will be the next issue. Fewer northbound people turning left on the whitemud would be a very good thing.
I agree that roads just fill up, I like the Vancouver philosophy WRT the #1 and Lougheed (Basically they said we're not going to expand it, so everyone just needs to deal with the traffic and find alternate solutions) The issue there is that most who use those roads are headed to Vancouver, not through it as they are in Cgy & Edm. Forcing everyone to deal with that mess of 16th ave in Cgy, or shortcut through bedroom communities is not the answer.
What do you propose ?