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Originally Posted by Slava
I can see some of the traffic being alleviated as you say, but there is no doubt in my mind that there are still thousands of SW residents (and an increasing amount with Providence) that will want to head North towards downtown or wherever else. The Ring Road won't be much help in that regard, and that intersection is a complete bottleneck.
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It will be interesting to see what the traffic patterns look like for going downtown once the SW portion is built. The natural routes from the west side would be north on Sarcee to Bow Trail, or East on Glenmore to Crowchild. In either case upgrades would be needed downstream from the new road in order to handle increased traffic. I know there are plans to free-flow the Sarcee-Richmond interchange and the Sarcee-Bow interchange, but nothing on record for changes to the Eastbound Glenmore-Northbound Crowchild movement.
Will be interesting to see what is planned or what will be needed based on actual patterns.