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Originally Posted by powderjunkie
Instead of spending $100M+ on an imperfect solution, why not spend $10M+ on a different imperfect solution that addresses the LOS on Sarcee.
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Mostly because $10 million fixes are bandaids and fail in 5 years, at which point the interchange you could have built for $120M is now $190M.
To kinda wrap this up, there is no reason to believe the city is not exploring every possible option for fixes to Sarcee/Bow. The fact that they built Canada's first diverging diamond at Macleod/162 is evidence that they are fairly forward in their thinking and willing to try new things.
There's only so much you can simulate in terms of the traffic flows after the ring is fully open, so now it's just a waiting game and then they'll re-group and figure out if they can find money to fix anything.