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Old 04-09-2010, 04:49 PM   #538
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Originally Posted by Madman View Post
Really? So having an interchange at Southland, Anderson and Bow Bottom was a good plan?
The issue there isn't the proximity of the interchanges, it's the bottleneck. You've got 3 lanes of Deerfoot, 2 lanes of Bow Bottom and 2 lanes of Anderson converging into 3 lanes of Deerfoot. Bow Bottom and Anderson tend to merge okay, and Deerfoot is reduced to 2 lanes before getting mixed with Anderson, but that still means you've got 4 lanes going down to 3. It works a lot better going South because it's not a bottleneck. Proximity to Southland only causes a problem because everyone tries to make their lane change in the first 20 meters.

But yeah, I think all of Southland, Anderson, and Bow Bottom should intersect Deerfoot. Cutting one of them off would just create big detours and bottlenecks elsewhere.
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