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Originally Posted by mikephoen
As someone who does live near the proposed area, I'll gladly put up with some short term pain to finally have something done about the horrible section of Crowchild North of 17th to Memorial and 14th Street from 12th Ave to Memorial.
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That's the thing exactly.
iNobody lives in the West Village now – the closest residential area is separated from it by the CPR tracks – and the crazy road work desperately needs to be done, whether anything new is built in the area or not. The existing configuration of Bow, Crowchild, and 14th St. was designed and built in the late 1960s, evidently by somebody who had never seen an interchange before, but was thoroughly stoned and hallucinated how it ought to be done. Worse, they did it without allowing any room at all to add extra lanes. The city has tripled in size since then, and traffic in that area has more than tripled.