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Originally Posted by Jimmy Stang
The traffic from EB and WB Trans Canada each currently get their own lane over the river without having to merge together. It flows alright.
The new configuration will have both EB and WB Trans Canada merge into one, and the new NB Stoney will also reduce to the one other lane. I think that’s a lot of cars to pinch into two lanes, and I expect WB TCH to NB Stoney to fare the worst.
Bowness Road, for example, will likely take on more traffic because people will bail at Bowfort Road and cut the corner off when the TCH to Stoney is backed up.
I also think that in the SW, 85th, 69th, Old Banff Coach Road, and Bow Trail will all see a lot more cars, and it will cause quite a bit of congestion.
But who am I kidding? I’m glad to see it open, and I see a few scenarios where I’ll be using it. I do think that there will be a ripple effect on surrounding roads though.
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A lot of the WB TCH to NB Stoney is traffic coming from Sarcee which basically functions as a defacto leg of the ring road... I think opening the new portion of the WRR will take a lot of traffic off NB Sarcee > TCH > NB Stoney, which hopefully helps all of the other TCH > NB Stoney travellers.
Really curious to see how this affects the other roads on the west side as SB traffic will be forced off at OBCR and Bow and have to disperse through Bow, 17th, 69th & 85th
