I went through last week during weekday PM rush and it was fine. Obviously I need to go through in the morning to see it when it's "horrific". Really this is just a repeat of Cranston in 2013 where you know the ring is coming and life will be worse but it's still tilting. Funny to call it something out of the 70s, given that it's built how it is precisely because it's no longer the 70s.
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Originally Posted by Ducay
Meanwhile they have no hesitation nuking Glenmore down to 60km/h, or working around those limitations at 16th Ave by building 1,200 flyovers. Apples and oranges for sure, but illustrates the point.
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Pretty siginifcant apples and oranges to the extent that it doesn't really mean anything. Glenmore east of Sarcee is not mainline Stoney and a different classification so it's an entirely different set of parameters. Nowhere on mainline Stoney or Henday has the speed limit been compromised. What you describe at Stoney/16 Ave is a system interchange (as opposed to Discovery/69, a service interchange) and is mostly a copy/paste of the system interchange already built at Henday/Gateway with elements of Henday/Yellowhead NE and other changes for topography. Every bridge there exists for a reason, and it's not like they're being built in lieu of improvements to Discovery/69.
It's a P3 project. Lowest bid that meets spec wins.