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Originally Posted by TorqueDog
They're going to do the same damn thing with Stoney if they don't knock it off.
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11 St is the last one in the north planned ahead of time, anything else they try to squeeze in should be shut down by the province. 60 St NE will be a full interchange at some point, likely sooner rather than later since money grows on trees for Stoney interchanges.
City also planning flyovers with no access at 64 and 80 Aves NE. 130 Ave SE is the next one to find magic money for.
On Google Maps you can switch to satellite view to see where the 11 St interchange is going and that it was planned all along, the grading for it was done when the NW leg extension to Deerfoot was completed in 2009. With so much traffic coming off southbound QE2 to go west on Stoney, it's going to be a nasty weave in 20 years if Lewisburg and Keystone Hills are built out. It's sort of a pseudo-dilemma where the developer north of Stoney doesn't want an Evanston repeat, so they're subsidizing Stoney access to be in place before they really dig in. A proper fix for westbound there will be expensive, with CPR tracks, Nose Creek and powerlines all in the way. To maximize weave distance, the westbound exit ramp should be a loop ramp like what everybody now hates on westbound Glenmore to get to 69 St. I'm shocked it isn't.
Of note is that the second Harvest Hills Blvd bridge is being built far enough from the other one for Green Line to go up the middle. New Shag bridge will be in tight to the existing one. 14 St interchange should be open by the end of summer, the rest allegedly end of 2022 but I doubt it.