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Originally Posted by 5seconds
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.
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Crowchild N will be a bottleneck into DT, unless those coming from the south take Sarcee to Bow and come into DT via Bow.
The plans are in place and the right-of way marked out to expand W/E Glenmore to 3 lanes both ways from Sarcee (or at least 37st) to Crowchild.
But once one hits Crowchild, you have a single turning lane/ramp to N/B Crowchild currently. The W/B Glenmore to Crowchild should be less busy (people coming from the south/14ST) but Crowchild itself won't be as people just take a different route to get to N/B Crowchild and some may even skip going down MacLeod.
Anyways, very good news for the city. Living here my whole life, living in the south, with relatives in Killarney growing up, then going to MRC and U of C for school it never made sense to be restricted to that one and only way to and from the far SW to the mid SW with just wide open land between there. Accidents on the causeway? Would ake 90 minutes to get home from the U of C 15 years ago.
Will be interesting to see when they start the work how careful they have to be near the old CF firing range, with likley hundreds of undetonated munitions.