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Originally Posted by Cowboy89
Good luck, this is going to turn into an excercise to determine how many bike lanes, HOV lanes, and transit dedicated lanes can be squeezed into the space with no regard for car traffic. Hell I bet when this is somehow all done we end up with less car lanes, with the excuse that by building all the other transporation alternatives it is supposed to aliviate car traffic from all the people who get out of their cars and into buses and on bikes.
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Or the City could do what they did with 16th and neglect any transit consideration only for the corridor to be identified as a major transit priority at a later date.
While I do think that the current setup on Crowchild needs to be improved from one single through lane at certain points, strong considerations will have to be given to transit. Crowchild should form the western portion of a BRT circle line and that would be a long term solution. On the other hand, almost all road improvements like this are merely short or, at best, medium term improvements since they simply induce more vehicular traffic.