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Originally Posted by Southside
Yeah that airport tunnel sure put a lot of infrastructure projects that were badly needed on the shelf.
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Are the Tsuu T'ina planning on building Canada's longest runway perpendicular to the proposed route of the SWRR and opening Canada's third busiest airport on the adjacent lands?
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Originally Posted by Joborule
Unless you got several boatloads of money that we can use now to fund every significant project the city wants, it would be wise too. Especially when the costs to the city itself isn't that much compared to the project as a whole, that is being done by the province. If we're not doing one thing, then we'll be doing the other. The LRT is needed, but so is the SWRR since all legs but this one has been completed, complete out TUC corridor, would relive pressure off the current roads used by SW commutes, save the costs of doing in the future when it's even more necessary, and possibly more costly, as well we have only several years to get the road done before the deal is off.
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As the Province is basically the City's financier when it comes to capital spending, the $133M and $5B are coming from the same place. The RR as is will fulfil its goals of providing a bypass and we can't focus on finishing the ring for the sake of closure when its cost can finance so many other more pressing projects. However, I don't think we can agree on the latter.
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Originally Posted by Resolute 14
Don't disagree with your general point, but in this case, there is a time limit on getting the road built. Because of that, it really doesn't matter. Funding for SW Stoney has to come first.
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We can't hold ourselves to such a commitment simply because we have a deal in place. It's like meeting the love of your life but not pursuing her/him because you just got engaged. You need to suck it up, break-off the engagement and prevent a whole lot more drama and heartache later on.
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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).
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As we can see on Deerfoot right now, induced demand. The volume may lower but it will only be temporary.