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Originally Posted by Handsome B. Wonderful
It's a less than stellar neighbourhood ....
I invite every Lakeview resident to spend a week driving on 14th street SW and Glenmore during rush hour, and we'll see if they still think a ring road is unnecessary.
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Which "stellar" neighbourhood do you live in?
Lakeview resident here, and yeah, I grew up futher south and went to University so drove everyday. Sure, there's a need for a ring road. I see it everyday living here when everyone who's impatient and not a Lakeview resident decides to pull into Lakeview and pull illegal u turns to line up going north on Crowchild to get onto Glenmore.
The province and city needed to put its foot down long before that casino opened its smoky doors. The plans for Glenmore to be widened have been in place for 6 years, as two weeks after we moved here I went to a town hall and saw the plans (as that widening would be taking place be a few hundred feet from our place)...the city planner said they weren't going to do it until the natives put the ring road through.
The natives still think the government is again trading infected HBC blankets for buffalo meat, and that's the only reason the deal didn't go through, which would've setup the Band, and families for life (assuming the money wasn't blown). But because they didn't trust the land swap, they went against the Band leader.
Cut off the casino from 37th street for 6 months to do "sewer upgrades" in the area, and see how long it takes for them to come running back to the table. Plus, even if this is built on 37th, no way your going to have a turnoff into a casino off a 90km road...that would need a seperate road off the 37th st interchange that would have to be built, and again, I don't think the city or province needs to pay for creating easier access...so the users of that casino would have to go to Anderson and drive the dusty road.
As for Ken, probably about 120 homes (so 2 deep) would be affected if they went 4 lanes, maybe more if they go 6 lanes wide. 37th is a wide 2 way street, but only one lane each way. They can't go more then 10 feet further West, so all construction would be east. Plus, all those homes on the east side of 37th are raised (great view of the mountains) from the street and even the sidewalk, so that whole strip, and the rows behind it, would have to be levelled to make level ground for an expressway. Add in the construction traffic and rights of way to do the construction, and the cul de sacs that back onto the affected portion, and its easily 120+ homes that would go.
Where 500 came from, I don't know...if it went 8 lanes wide with a median, maybe closer to 3 rows of homes (so 300 homes (and the apartments) could be affected, because again, all the construction is east of the current 37th St.