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Originally Posted by calculoso
I think their plan is for 16th in the North and Glenmore in the "south". Glenmore from Crowchild through Deerfoot and beyond is already pretty much a freeway, or at least will be once the paving is done. They still need to do more with Glenmore west of Crowchild, but progress is happening.
16th is slowly getting better with all of the construction, transforming it into a 6-lane road. I just hope that some of the lights that were there in the past, and currently blocked off for construction, will disappear entirely. It's not a freeway, but certainly better than it has been in the past.
John Laurie / McKnight Blvd isn't much of an option IMO. Too hard to get to it, too windy, too many lights, etc. The surrounding connectors aren't good enough.
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Yeah, Glenmore would need to be a freeway from the Ring Road to past Deerfoot by necessity. 14th and Crowchild require too much work to be good connector roads. Crowchild south of Bow Trail and North of the U of C is great... its that part in between that is just repulsive. Someone must have been smoking crack when they designed that bridge/interchange over the Bow.
As for John Laurie/McKnight, that was just a guess based on the amount of room there for lane expansion and interchanges. The fact that its windy would mean it couldn't be a 100km/h road. But there's no reason it could be a free-flow at existing speed limits (70-80ish). That knot of a road that combines the two would be the biggest issue.
16th will likely be screwed up and in typical standard around these parts, be merely mediocre.