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Originally Posted by Acey
Not fully sure why this decision was made, to be honest... it simply shifts the westbound crunch at peak mountain travel hour down to Old Banff Coach Road.
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I have no official info on this, and I'm just guessing here:
- They just fixed up the Old Banff Coach Road bridge so they didn't want to immediately tear it down to build a new one that would fit more lanes.
- Since it's a P3 project, it's just easier to make them build all the lanes now than to come back and do it later (NE Stoney widening delays come to mind).
- This will put a ton of pressure to add a lane in each direction all the way to Highway 22. So maybe an intentional push to get the Trans Canada widened further.
Personally, I find it takes forever for people to accelerate to 110 heading West after the Valley Ridge area. Since they're fixing all the way to Old Banff Coach Road that will give the strugglers the ability to get moving.