I mean, I dunno. When the 2009 Tsuu T'ina deal failed the city/province were seriously looking at somehow trying to fix Macleod, Anderson, 14 St, and the Glenmore Causeway and repurposing them as the southwest ring road. The alternative was blowing up Lakeview or tunneling at a billion bucks a kilometer.
You wanna talk about hating life...
Ultimately we spent a couple hundred million to acquire land from Tsuu T'ina in the 2013 deal, they received more Crown land on the west side of the reserve than we took for the road, and now have a freeway drawing traffic to a new development that's already popping off with that Costco. As for Calgarians, aside from the relative few in Cedarbrae, Woodbine et al. that now have a freeway in their backyard, life gets much easier with an alternative to god forsaken 14 St. Win-win, I'd say.
