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Originally Posted by Resolute 14
As mentioned, you are wrong. Highway 2, including Deerfoot Trail within Calgary, is provincially funded and maintained. An Airdrie driver's taxes are going to maintain the road as well.
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First of all, I'm not wrong. I said in my original post that I didn't know how Deerfoot was funded.
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Originally Posted by Resolute 14
Also, the north end gridlock is the result of two issues: The bottleneck at Beddington, where you have five lanes of traffic merging into three, and the complete lack of a useful alternate route into downtown from the north. Everyone has to take Deerfoot, regardless of what community they start from.
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Well there wouldn't be a gridlock if there weren't people from Airdrie on Deerfoot.
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Originally Posted by Resolute 14
Frankly, your "lets screw over people from out of town" attitude is little more than misdirected anger. When you get down to it, Airdrie is not much farther out than Westwinds or Coventry Hills. Why don't you propose tolling people entering Deerfoot from the outskirts of the city itself as well?
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Yes but Coventry Hills is within Calgary, and people in Coventry Hills pay taxes to the City of Calgary. People who live in Coventry Hills are Calgarian. Airdrie has its own municipal government and
citizens of Airdrie pay taxes to that government, not to the City of Calgary.
Look, even if Deerfoot is 100% funded by the Province (still would like to see a link to proof for my own due diligence and so we can be positive about this in the discussion going forward), it doesn't change the fact that two times everyday thousands of people from another city flock to Calgary and jam our roads, making it difficult for our own citizens to get around.
If Deerfoot is owned provincially, we will just have to change the way we discourage travel by Airdrie folks, but it doesn't mean we will just give up. And I'm not angry. I just see an opportunity to right a wrong.