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Originally Posted by Sylvanfan
The lack of vision when hiways were/are built in this country is laughable. The cheap method always is used. Theres a lot of roads in this province that should be twinned. But the road to Fort Mac is definitely a top priority. Hopefully they actually consider what the traffic demands will be on that road 10-20 years from now because it's far more cost effective and efficient, and likely easier on the environment to overbuild that road right now, than to have to go back and react and keep adding to it in the future.
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I think that road might be one of the exceptions to planning study traffic surveys done on almost all Alberta Infrastructure and Transportation projects. In most cases it's easy to determine increases in traffic volumes for 10-20 year periods but the case of Fort Mac is definitely a special one. If anyone in their right minds could have predicted the growth of Oil Sands in that area they would be freaking millionaires by now.
When lice infected, run-down condo's are selling for 300,000+ then you know you are in a situation of unexpected growth. Now the problem with that whole city is that they are way behind in every facet of growth; infrastructure, residential development, commercial development and many others.
It's going to take 30+ years for the growth to catch up to the population in that city and by then the Oil sands operations will have pulled out. That's a long way off though.