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Originally Posted by TorqueDog
yet west Stoney direction is the full three lanes.
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It does reduce to 2 just before joining mainline, to be fair. AT doesn't like 3+3 merges. There are mega long-term plans to twin 8 all the way out to 22, and for 22 to be a freeway - which would make that westbound through movement more important.
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Originally Posted by ken0042
I think they under estimated the traffic flow.
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Not the answer anyone wants to hear, but a decision was made to simply not make any fundamental changes from the design drafted many many years ago for the SW leg, which saved a ton of time and expedited the project. New modeling for the traffic flow would have been done for other things like noise, and those models very well could be spot on.
I'm not saying this is "acceptable", but rather that there's not a bunch of engineers shocked and in awe losing sleep over the shocking revelation that WB Glenmore to SB Stoney isn't flowing great.