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Originally Posted by Mazrim
Just a thought...what makes building just the "shell" of the tunnel and not the roads with it any cheaper? The major expense of the whole thing comes from the tunnel itself (roads are pretty cheap in comparison), so not connecting the tunnel with a road that actually makes it useful is not going to save you a lot of money.
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Not sure who put that forward but the "shell" is the only thing you really need right now. The associated road costs are what will cost the most money which could theoretically be put off. Its the cheap way to do this which doesnt appease the users in the NE currently but does appease to the rest of Calgary who like 4x4 probably thinks why build this now for just a few communities in the NE (probably rightly so at the moment).