Quote:
Originally Posted by You Need a Thneed
The route has to get around the corner at Glenmore/37th. That means the road would have to veer East of 37th, straight through the heart of Lakeview, arc around the corner, take out a bunch of Glamorgan. To make the corner with a 100km speed limit would require significant chunks of Lakeview and Glamorgan. If that route was ever actually done, they would probably save a few houses, by lowering the design speed to 60 or 80 kmh around that corner.
Also, building a narrow ROW road requires more structure to be built than the standard, wide ROW highway. If you don't have ditches, you have to build something else to handle storm water. More retaining a walks would be needed.
|
There's also the fact that the 37st road won't be as wide/thus fast/thus capacity won't be as great. Plus the bridge over the Weaslhead will be more$ than the crossing of the river (IIRC) further west where the road will actually be if it goes to the reserve.
Plans are in place and land is appropriated to have a wider Glenmore west of Crowchild (you can see the retaining walls on the northside of Glenmore, bordering Garrison Green), and the berm on the south side will be eliminated, with a higher wall, to allow 3 lanes west of Crowchild...however, that
was meant to handle the capacity for a Ring Road west of 37th, not a 37th St ring road.
As has been mentioned, if that was as feasible a plan, even if it meant 60-80 Lakeview homes, it would've been pursued....however, as mentioned, there are lots of compromises that would have to be made as far as size, scope, capacity, inconvience (construction and the rerouting and replanning of West Lakeview) and for a total cost that won't be much more economical than the ideal first option.
That said, hopefully the City and Province has made it clear that this is the final offer, and if rejected, soon brings in the earthmovers (ideally parked at 37th and Glenmore, making casino access as inconvenient as possible) and moves ahead with that project, and the TN loses out on their hundreds of millions of dollars in cash, and severely stunts the development of the plans they have for the casino/upcoming hotel and likely many more commercial projects on that land.