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Old 07-21-2010, 02:56 PM   #68
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Originally Posted by You Need a Thneed View Post
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 isn't 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.
I know it's not feasible for it to be on 64th, I'm saying that it would be reasonable and obvious to build if it were.
The CMD/Anderson/Glenmore comparison is only accurate because they are physically about the same distances apart. But in reality, those three orads handle most of the E/W traffic in the south side of the city. That's a far cry from the tiny little upper third of the NE (including what will be eventually built).

I guess at the end of the day, I certainly don't mind the idea of the tunnel. It's great to have more roads and better/faster access to everything. What I think is outrageous is $150 million. And that doesn't include the road. For, IMO, a shortcut.

Here's an idea... Why doesn the city swap land with the airport authority. The city owns the open land in the SE corner of the image. If the airport moved the runway down half a mile, Airport Trail could be built at grade.

http://www.cbc.ca/gfx/images/news/ph...ort-tunnel.jpg
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