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Old 07-21-2010, 02:42 PM   #67
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It really feels weird being on the side that's against more roads, but like I said, looking at this map of CoC, it looks pretty frivolous to me. I mean, this tunnel doesn't even cut through the meat of the airport, it merely lops off one little tiny portion of the very NE corner of it. Maybe if it came through at 64th ave, I could see the huge benefit you guys see, but where it is, it just doesn't do much.
It's more about an area that is going to be developed that will generate a lot of traffic. There are two main roads planned to service the area, one is a major road (multiple lights, 60km/h speed limits, etc), and one is an expressway (fewer lights, faster speed limit, interchanges in the future). What happens when that area is built out, but the expressway was never built? A major road isn't going to be able to handle the traffic. The traffic lights will turn it into a nightmare.

64th Ave going through would make be better for some crosstown routes, but there's no place for it to come up out of the ground to save cost, plus the terminal isn't oriented to that side, so it really couldn't connect to the terminal.

Like someone else said above, the distance between McKnight and CHB is the same distance between Glenmore and Canyon Meadows. Think of Airport Trail as Anderson. What would traffic be like in that area if everything else was the same but Anderson wasn't there? It wouldn't be very pretty. Now think that to be more accurate, the situation in the NE would be like if Southland and Heritage didn't reach Deerfoot as well.

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