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Originally Posted by Fuzz
Red: eastbound
green: westbound
blue: pedestrian
gray: buildings
Figured I'd fix a little bit of Crowchild. I'm sure this isn't the best road design, but just showing something could be done by adding an extra lane to the bridge. This fixes the Memorial crossover pain. Traffic circle may need work, that whole area is a bit of a cluster*, but does maintain the same access as before. Primarily I wanted to get the big roads out of the way and open grand pedestrian passageways. Bow speed limits may need to be reduced for safety given there may be lots of traffic at games.
Not sure if the Pumphouse Theatre was staying, so I assumed it was. If it goes, that opens more space to maybe move the arena further west.
The biggest drawback is no direct transit access to the arena. Walking distance is about 500m. Current Saddledome is ~400m. I think it's worth the sacrifice.
An alternative for Bow Westbound would be to burry it, roughly following the pedestrian blue but I actually don't see a huge point to that unless eastbound is buried as well to kind of open up to Sunalta. Still have the railway though. And would be expensive.
Anyway, have at 'er. I'm sure there are vast improvements to be made, but I get the feeling I put more thought into this (an hour) than KK did into his.... |
I agree. Northbound Crow could use an extra lane or two.
However, I am confused by how you would implement it. Connecting from the left or right side just before the bridge just screams chaos to me. If you added a lane that connected to let's say the Memorial turnoff on the bridge, that creates a weird weave zone for cars on Crow going on Memorial and cars coming from the stadium going on Crow.
I wonder if a bridge that allows Memorial to connect to Crowchild south directly (without the spinorama around Kensington Road) and a route from the stadium that connects to the far right lane where Memorial currently joins to Crowchild...
and/or... adjusting the area by the University drive turnoff to be a 3 lane rather than 2 lane so that the bottle neck is less...
Actually, strike that. I have no idea what I'm talking about, I'm not a road designer, I just know that area is going to be (because it already currently is) a cluster fata.
And as for transit, I'm sure they could have a loading area contrived that has a temporary shuttle bus for events that takes fans to 17th ave or whatever predetermined location everyone deems acceptable? (Core? Chinook?)