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Originally Posted by stampsx2
The reason they shouldn't deal with the reserve:
1) It hasn't worked for 50 years why would you think they will reach a deal this time.
2) The reserve option costs 1.5 billion dollars with 500 million just for the land.
The cut and cover method can get started right away and costs a third of that. It doesn't affect the resevoir or lakeview residents.
Even the lakeview option costs less than the reserve deal. I don't think there's any residents along the strip that are too opposed to the city buying their house at a premium. In my opinion it's the people further in the community that would get nothing that have an issue with it.
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Interesting.
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Originally Posted by Joborule
They have the power so they think they could pull it off (and probably could/will). The original planned route is really the only good option for the SW ring road. If we want to build a 16 lane tunnel down 37 street we'll be paying a lot more than what we give to the reserve and total construction costs; now and future I imagine.
Also not to mention it would probably require knocking down some homes.
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Wow, $1.5, that's an incredible amount!!
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Originally Posted by Northendzone
i have no officially researched this, but I would guess another two years - but that being said, they are working at extending Stoney trail from it current starting point at 17th ave Se all the way to 22x - it seems they are doing a lot of grading of the raods and building overpasses and given the remote location it is hard to tell how far along they currently are. i'd sure like to see some kind of stat on how much dirt they moved once this major project is done.
from glenmore/stoney to glenmore/HW8 will still be a fair drive - given that stoney trail and glenmore is not far from glenmore and 84th.
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Cool - don't head that way much, west on glenmore/8 so didn't notice any dirt piling up.
Last sentance confused me. Are you saying from Glenmore/stoney east isn't far from glenmore stoney/west/84h?