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Originally Posted by Jay Random
The thing is, the Bow/Crow nightmare needs to be rebuilt whether there is an arena or not. I have it on good authority that the engineer who designed it was wearing a straitjacket at the time, doped to the gills on Thorazine, and drawing the plans with a crayon held between his toes. It was a ludicrously bad design at the time, and could barely handle the traffic that went through it when Calgary was a city of 400,000.
Adding an arena to the plan would not significantly complicate the job of rebuilding that interchange. However, if they rebuild the interchange without deliberately leaving room for an arena (or other major development), they will permanently lose the opportunity to do anything useful with the West Village site.
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Do you have a source on that?
I do agree though, that intersection (like many around the city though) were designed for a much smaller load and are just a mess with how things developed. It's a story as old as the city itself. We grew to quick and especially in the beginning, there was no thinking for the future.