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Originally Posted by Bownesian
You know that the Bragg Creek route is about 50km from city boundary to city boundary right?
I don't accept that a freeway over Weaselhead is a non-starter. The City built Stoney trail high above the Bow River and at ground level, you can barely tell that there is traffic above you. As far as the threat of a spill or something, we already have Glenmore Trail crossing the reservior so clearly accomodations can be made to make such a causeway safe.
There is significant additional cost in building an elevated road over such a span but elevated highways like that aren't anything new in the world. We are a million-person city. It's time we started thinking like one and spend the money to make it work.
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Actually, traffic IS restricted over the Glenmore causeway, and traffic over the Weaselhead would also be restricted, which undermines the usefulness of such a road. Also, a road through the Weaselhead seems to go against the principals of the "Plan-It" guidelines that the City has proposed for future development.
The outer ring road definitely wouldn't serve SW commuter traffic, but it would provide a nice bypass route for truck and other traffic coming in from the South. This would lighten the load on McLeod and Glenmore I would think.