It is so wide because the original plan was for a second freeway going down the middle like Chicago's Dan Ryan or Toronto 401, like this:
That's because we had plans for a second ring road way beyond Stoney that couldn't be built in the SW because of Tsuu T'ina, so SW Stoney was going to double up and function as the inner and outer ring road. Then we smartened up and bailed on the second ring but didn't re-do the design so a 90 meter median is the end result. There is another highway in the province that has a massive median for exactly the same purpose, and that is QE2's 100+ meter median between Leduc and Edmonton.
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Originally Posted by MacDaddy77
They must be opening a portion of the west bound RR under 6th street
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Yes.