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Originally Posted by Don Benji
Perhaps you haven't been to this intersection in the last three years. The city fixed all of the curbs in that area. You posted a google image from ten years ago.
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I'm aware. The comment I was responding to said it was fine for the last 32 years - I was pointing out that it definitely was not for a lot of use cases.
The 2016 changes were obviously long overdue. Then we spent $87M improving the bridge over the Bow. Which is cool, except Crowchild effectively squeezes back to two lanes 1km north of the river. So we really just helped that bottleneck fill up faster, and improving the throughput at 24th was the natural remedy. Which they did by adding another lane (which never fails) and removing the merge (which was certainly hindering the throughput of the right through lane to some degree).
That's the beautiful thing about spending on roads. It's futile and pointless unless you keep spending more and more and more ad infinitum in a never ending quest to maintain the status quo. Because really that's all we achieve in 99% of cases - getting travel time back to where it was a few years earlier (after spending millions and months+ of increased travel time during construction)
Of course transit and mobility spending suffers from a similar 'problem' - except the spending that begets spending actually results in compounding returns instead of diminishing returns.