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Originally Posted by Resolute 14
What percentage of drivers that use Deerfoot are on the road at rush hour? Say 50%? Perhaps conservative?
If those sections of Deerfoot have 100,000 cars per day, and half of those are on at rushhour, and therefore would benefit from the 20 minute decrease in travel time, then you are looking at 1 million minutes fewer per business day that a car is on the road. I wonder how much fuel that saves, and how much pollution it prevents?
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Correct, but its not cost effective for the province. Someone wasting his or her time, say 40 minutes a day has no dollar value as the summation of that time over a year isnt a valid way to cost it except to the persons quality of life which was known when the person moved to that location.
And the fuel saving, agian doesnt benefit the province but the user. Also the pollutions created should be a cost to the user, not the province. Its like a 5+ billion dollar project to upgrade Deerfoot to 4-5 lanes. And that doesnt include the upgrades that would be required to handle the extra traffic on the off QE2.
As a tax payer who made the choice to spend more on a location closer to where I work, than a "cookie cutter" farther away. If all you are saving is 40 minutes a day of total commute time when there are other options available (CTrain) doesnt make a lot of sense IMO. I dont want Calgary to turn into Houston North.