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Originally Posted by Don Benji
I've been driving this route for 32 years. Never found the previous transition from 24th heading west to Crowchild to be a problem. There is so much room to have made the merge even better than it was but they took it away. It was a very simple crosswalk to navigate as a pedestrian because you were only looking one way at one lane. During the busy hours traffic now backs up significantly further than it used to because there is at least two minutes added to the intersection. It was immediately noticeable after the change.
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Very simple once you cross the totally kinda sort of maybe a crosswalk at the 24 St intersection assuming you have no mobility challenges and can deal with a vertical curb:
https://maps.app.goo.gl/tPN8ppNXdxxxbLpKA
Was the iteration with two straight through WB lanes and the regular merge better? Perhaps, but the 24 St access still made it a cluster####.
And it's not necessarily about whether it's a problem for the mergers...it almost certainly limited the throughput of Crowchild NB on green, which has ripple effects all the way back to the Bow River bridge and beyond. There's a reason the biggest freeways have ramp meters (stop lights metering traffic on the on-ramps)