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Originally Posted by DiracSpike
I grew up in Oakridge and Bayview and spent a tonne of time on those bike paths and the weaselhead. On the weekend I came back to my parents house to bike with them west through South Glenmore and then south on the fish creek-Glenmore connector and holy crap, that area looks completely different. It's amazing. The 90th ave connector used to be a crappy dirt road to nowhere that was used for horse transportation and it's a fully formed road right now. The southland connector is done too, that used to be a weird ditch that everyone from school blazed in. I had always thought the people who lived on oakmount dr, which is a road facing directly west to the Tsuu Tiina, were going to get absolutely ####ed over by this road but it's actually not even visible. Further south there were some spots on the western edges of Cedarbrae and Woodbine that do have a raw deal but overall there's not a lot of impact sight-line wise. To me this has massively raised the value of these neighborhoods, I never wanted to buy a house back there because it felt sooo isolated being right up against the reserve to the west and having to truck back east 30 blocks just to get anywhere. I was always jealous of buddies that lived in Lakeview that could hop on Glenmore or Crowchild and get basically anywhere in the city much faster than I could. Now though this makes getting out of the city and to the airport so much easier.
It boggles my mind that people in the SW were against this for so long. The concept of being able to go from oakridge to westhills in like 5 minutes instead of 25 is incredible. Can't wait to drive this thing just for the fun of it when it opens early.
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Funny, my wife hates Lakeview for the same reasons, any issues with that corner and its hard to get out.
I'm looking forward forward to this too. I live near Woodbine and I do a lot of work in the Signal Hill area. This will be much better.