Airport Trail isn't just a road made for airport commute alone. It's an important E-W expressway for the now expanding NE region of the city. Country Hills isn't intended to be that type road and doesn't have the right of way spacing to support it. If that were to change, it would likely cost more money to upgrade Country Hills then it would be to fully build Airport Trail. At least that what I believe was to be the case when we last discussed this on the forums.
Besides that though, obviously it would be a great benefit to NE commuters, but it will really help for southern commuters once SE Stoney opens up. Because airport trail will be built all the way to Stoney. (Interchange is already built) Rather than putting pressure on Deerfoot all alone, Deerfoot and Stoney Trail as N-S routes options will help commuters and relieve congestion on Deerfoot as well.
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