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Originally Posted by Acey
Well yeah... but apparently it's "unsafe" and for a city as rich as Calgary we should be building better roads...
Keep in mind though, one limiting factor is noise. This isn't QEII, and there are lots of adjacent residential areas who signed up to live next to a freeway at 100 kph, not the autobahn.
Rural freeways are a different story and I'll be the first in line to advocate for 130 on those barren stretches of Highway 4, etc
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I already have to wear noise-cancelling headphones when I’m on my back deck due to cars ripping down the SW ring road at 120k. And no, this isn’t part and parcel of living in an urban environment. At various times I’ve lived in the beltline, in close proximity to Crowchild, and on the Macleod Tr / South LRT line corridor, and none of those locations were anywhere close to as noisy as my current house 500m from the ring road. Cars doing 100+ are way louder than cars doing 80-90. Especially the dick-wads on motorbikes who use the RR as a race-track.
It would help if they enforced the speed limit. I drive the SW RR almost daily, and I’ve never seen any speed enforcement. Maybe it’s a jurisdictional grey area through the Tsuu Tina. Which would explain why it’s used as racetrack on summer evenings.