Here's some pictures I took today of the newly opened section. Just an empty road, really.
http://forum.skyscraperpage.com/show...postcount=4437
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Originally Posted by Clarkey
This is interesting, can you provide more info about this?
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I had provided the case for my argument in that post, but didn't end up making the point, which was about the missing accesses to/from Cranston. So in Toronto they've managed to fit 30 travel lanes in the space of 300 meters. So in the 470 metres between Cranston and McKenzie Lake they surely should be able to add the bridges and lanes required for the missing accesses. But alas, Alberta Transportation doesn't want to deviate from their new and extremely stringent design standards regarding weave and merge distances, the radius of loop ramps, and pretty much any other specification of the road.
Driving in Toronto is a nightmare as has been pointed out. At its widest the 401 has 18 lanes. 18! But it has 4 times the daily volume of Deerfoot. Both of those are crazy to think about.
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Originally Posted by psicodude
Can anyone find any information about adding a 3rd lane to the EB section of Stoney as it crosses the Bow River between Cranston and Chaparral?
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Drove over this bridge today and they definitely have it prepped on either side of the bridge to expand to 3 lanes. If money were no object they'd probably have done at the same time as this project.