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Originally Posted by psicodude
I wonder if Bunk or anyone else that knows can tell me how much responsibility the developer of this commercial area has in terms of transportation. I just don't understand how that huge amount of commercial development can be built around such a puny road system.
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As I understand it, 130th is a city road. The cross streets - 46th, 48th and 50th are private, and owned by the developer. Though that hasn't stopped the city from trying to push its weight around - i.e.: it took the developer, Lowes and the community associations several months to finally convince the city to allow Lowes to keep that fire gate at the end of 50th closed. Apparently the ###### in the planning department who continually prevented that closure didn't think too highly of the Lowes employee who was run down by a moron speeding through a loading area, or the fact that cars were routinely slaloming around working employees.
Upgrading 130th, however, I think would be a joint responsibility of both the developer and city. Other than a dual exit to NB Deerfoot (which is problematic since the merge onto Deerfoot proper already requires crossing two lanes), the only other real solution I can think of is to build a connector around Canadian Tire and up to 114 Avenue. From there, traffic could easily merge onto Deerfoot.