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Originally Posted by D as in David
I only had one year of engineering so IANAE but wouldn't the design go through more than one iteration? Doesn't the design frequently get changed after the initial design to find cost savings? And wouldn't the design include some knowledge of the expected traffic patterns? They couldn't possibly have designed it without somehow including that in their requirements for the intersection. There should have been multiple options for the ultimate design of this intersection.
I guess this may be the best design out of all the options available to them but to have one of the directions fail so early after completion has got to be seen as a pretty big disappointment for the money spent.
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The interchange there now is what has been in publicly available plans in the depth of AT's website since maybe 2005. Pretty much nothing has changed, including the massively wide median that they said was too expensive to redesign and would take too long for the segment of the road through Tsuut'ina. I have no doubt that plenty of modelling would have been done since then for the purposes of noise and everything else, but a decision was made very early on that no signficant changes were going to be made to the original plan.