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Originally Posted by #-3
Its been mentioned a few times on this thread, The have done nothing to 80th, between 36th and Metis. It is still a Farm road. But is it only 8 blocks and 1 uncontrolled intersection. So not a huge issue to handle a little bit more volume.
36th, they complete removed the farm road, and put in a new road. it is still only 1 lane. But you can clearly tell from the curbs that they intend on making it a 2 lane divided road some time in the near future. But I'm not sure if that's next summer, or in 5 years?
Best way to the tunnel from the S.E will be to take Barlow north of McKnight, and get on 36th by the rotary park.
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Originally Posted by Jimmy Stang
I haven't been up that way in a while, but perhaps someone (Thneed?) can tell me:
Have any upgrades been done to 36th Street south of Airport Trail? And also 80th Avenue between 36th Street and Metis?
I picture a lot of the NE airport traffic trying to get through to the tunnel that way, but if the roads are single-lane rural highways still, I can see it getting pretty congested.
Even though the long term solution would make this unnecessary, that's still a long way off, and people are going to want to use the tunnel in the mean time.
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Let me answer here.
80th is still the farm road between Metis and 36th.
36th is still the farm road between 80th and Airport Trail.
36th has been twinned and rebuilt between Airport Trail and Country Hills Blvd.
The 36th St/ Airport Trail intersection will be nice, dual lane turns, and dual through lanes, street lights, etc.
There are permanent message boards going up around the tunnel that will alert people as to tunnel status. For example, during a big rain storm, the tunnel may have to close due to temporary flooding.
The untwined portion of 36th will be a pain, but traffic on there still won't be as bad as it was before Métis went through.