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Originally Posted by Tron_fdc
The ring road is going to get a MASSIVE amount of truck traffic off Glenmore; you can't discount that.
So although the volume my be lower in the SW portion, the other benefits that come along with it impact the entire city (less volume on 16th, crowchild, Glenmore, etc).
I also don't see the city/province as throwing money around on it either. If they had of done it (TTN negotiation and construction) 30 years ago it would have cost a fraction of the current cost. Same thing if we wait another 30, it will be ungodly expensive.
Rip off that bandaid. Pay the price, build the road.
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I hate the arguement if you built long ago it would have been cheaper or build it now or the price will go U in the future.
Its just not true. The cost of a construction project only increases at the rate of inflation of construction costs. This year to year is both lower and higher than the general rate of inflation but tracks it pretty closely. Why these projects cost more now is that they are designed to a hire standard. If they had built the ring road 30 years ago it would look like the mess crowchild and downtown is or deerfoot and Glenmore.
You can cut a huge chunk of the cost if you built it to the 30 year old standard. This is also true about arenas