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Originally Posted by getbak
City Council should take the money that they've allocated for the tunnel and add it to the budget for expanding Country Hills Blvd and making that the main access point to the Airport from the NE. Making Country Hills the main East-West corridor would only add an additional 3km to a single trip to the Airport (1.5km further north, then 1.5km back south) compared to where the tunnel is planned to run.
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I've said it before, the Tunnel isn't just for Airport access, when all of the Area east of the airport and inside the ring road is developed, CHB alone will not be able to handle the traffic. 50,000 residents going through a large industrial park to get to Deerfoot? CHB doesn't have room set aside for interchanges, nor should it. And not just from Deerfoot to Stoney NE, I would guess from Harvest Hills Blvd to Stoney NE.
I think not building the tunnel might cost just as much down the road due to the infrastructure upgrades required on CHB, ( and likely McKnight too), plus we would end up with a completely useless 96th Avenue that doesn't connect to anything east of the Airport.
Plus, there would be no future crosstown LRT route that would stop at the Airport. Plus there's a large industrial area being developed that isn't nearly as nice, because it isn't as accessible, etc.