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Old 12-30-2023, 01:38 PM   #5318
Acey
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Originally Posted by curves2000 View Post
As for the median and the cable, if you envision what happens if you go into the ditch at those speeds, what will happen? Sure the width will prevent a crash from oncoming traffic, but what happens to you or me?
Everybody dies, I guess? It sounds like you want HTCB on both sides of every singe kilometer of road that exists in this province, which I suppose is a reasonable argument... my only point was that this alleged lack of safety is therefore not unique to Stoney Trail.

I wasn't quite prepared for a perfectly straight 8 lane freeway in the middle of nowhere to be called unsafe, I suppose.

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Originally Posted by D as in David View Post
The NB - WB dual lane loop from 52nd St SE onto the ring road measures roughly the same diameter as the WB - SB loop under discussion here so it's not like this solution hasn't been used elsewhere on the RR.
Different radius requirement for a different classification of on-ramp from a side street.
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