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Originally Posted by ricosuave
Can anyone old enough to remember describe, or if anyone has any pics of, what Calgary (and highway traffic) was like before Deerfoot Trail?
I read up on a preliminary study on 4 feasibility options for Deerfoot, basically, it was mostly the same until you got just past the calf robe bridge, and then south it had 3 other designs (being more easterly) then it currently is. I can remember one of them being about where 18th st SE is now, and running through, I think, Queensland, so, kind of far east to what it ended up being. I think the costs had more to do with land purchase than anything else.
I'll have to see if I can find that copy I ready in the archives at work...
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Well...no pics, but I can remember when Blackfoot was the main artery into the south end of town. The alignment was different from the river, as it went where the current road is south of the Blaackfoot truck stop and that Centex gas station. It continued on north of that old school through the residential area there, and I think joined up somewhere just before where the Alyth overpass is. It was always gridlock through there. I was just a little kid, but can remember tagging along with my dad at work, sitting in the traffic on the alyth overpass with the constant smell of the stockyards which were on the west side of the tracks. Ahhh...the good old days!
Anyone old enough to remember the trailer court that would have been NE of the Cushing bridge, along the river west of Deerfoot? Just thought of that as I was recalling the old Blackfoot trail.