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Originally Posted by You Need a Thneed
Again, the tunnel will be needed for much. much more than just airport access. The 2 miles of extra distance will be two miles of hell when everything is developed around there. How long does it take to drive 2 miles out of foothills industrial up Barlow trail towards deerfoot at rush hour? Or 2 miles up 36th street in the NE at rush hour? IMO, the situation on CHB could be worse than that if the tunnel isn't built.
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Well, it seems silly to me to go digging an expensive-as-frack tunnel, when upgrading existing roads is much cheaper and benefits way more people. I'm staring at a big map of Calgary on my wall as I write this, and there's no way that this shortcut does anything more than give Saddle Ridge, Martindale, Taradale, falconrigde and castle ridge a 10 minute short cut. To everyone else, it would be business as usual. $150 million could widen CHB and the north portioon of Barlow to accommodate all this traffic you're correct in predicting, once the rest of the quadrant is filled out.