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Originally Posted by Rollin22x
somehow the whopping 28,000 (and not all of them drive Into Calgary) residents of Okotoks have an impact on the 1.28 million in Calgary? Please tell me of this horrendous impact.
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I didn't use the word "horrendous". However, let's use the 2016 population of Okotoks (approx 29,000). Let's further assume a little over 1/4 of them drive to Calgary daily.
Now examine the traffic on Deerfoot - average daily traffic was 168,000 vehicles calculated at the midpoint in 2016 (entering downtown at Memorial).
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Deerfoot_Trailhttp://
"Average daily traffic" is defined as "
Average daily traffic or
ADT, and sometimes also
mean daily traffic, is the average number of
vehicles two-way passing a specific point in a 24-hour period, normally measured throughout a year."
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Annual..._daily_traffic
What this means, is that 168,000 "passing a specific point" is the same vehicle is counted twice on a given day. So divide that number by 2 to calculate the average number of vehicle trips a day on Deerfoot (84,000).
As it is the midpoint, the 84,000 figure again needs to be divided by 2 to reflect traffic in from each end of the city (42,000).
Lets assume only 8,000 people drive in from Okotoks a day. That's almost 20% of the traffic on the southern half of Deerfoot per day hitting the 2-lane overpass at Glenmore. And that's assuming every Calgarian enters before the Glenmore overpass (everyone from Okotoks does).
So yeah, I guess you're right. It seems that deadbeat town does have a horrendous effect on traffic in Calgary.