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It has been quite obvious for some time that Deerfoot trail can no longer handle the city of Calgary's growing population.


What do people think can or should be done to make it less congested? I hate to call the ring road a failure, but I really believe it is, in terms of taking away traffic to Deerfoot. I really haven't seen an improvement at all on Deerfoot with the new ring road. Which is what they were advertising the ring road to do.

I'm no construction expert, but how long would expanding it to say 6 lanes take? I'm guessing somewhere in the range of 7 years? I believe the city (or the province?) should look at a solution ASAP because it really is going to just get worse from here on in.

Also, I really dislike the idea of police pulling over cars on Deerfoot and think it should be outlawed between a certain stretch in the city, say Bedington to Cranston Ave or something similiar. The police should take the license plate number of the vehicle and issue a ticket at a later date. The other day I was Southbound on Deerfoot in rush hour and it was backed up all the way from 16th ave NE to Glenmore because a cop had a guy pulled over near Glenmore. Rubber neckers and the 60 km/hr law caused at least 1000+ people to be in bumper to bumper traffic because of the cop pulling over a car for whatever reason.

Exactly after where the cop had the car pulled over it was smooth sailing from there.

Deerfoot Trail is a mess. In too many places you have cars trying to exit and cars trying to enter in such a small area to do so which causes peoples to have to brake from 100km/hr to something like 40km/hr which isn't safe at all, not to mention the backup it causes.

For the long term, something drastic needs to happen with the Deerfoot. We might suffer for it for mayne 7 years, but it will be all worth it in the end especially with the city contunuing to grow.