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Originally Posted by You Need a Thneed
Yeah, both the city and project websites say existing bridge.
But what they are building there makes ZERO sense unless they plan to demolish and rebuild the existing bridge - unless they plan to maintain the weird lane split of the current construction phase permanently. The piers don't line up between the existing and new bridges, AT ALL.
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A good 10 years ago I went to an Alberta Infrastructure open house; where the main project was adding the bridge that is currently under construction. The one guy from the province (I see him often in press briefings, really smart guy)- he was talking about how the existing bridges had a good 40 years of life left. So the new bridge would be built with room for more lanes below, and then later on we would get the other bridges rebuilt to match.
I guess that's 30 years of life at this point. Kind of makes sense. I do see where there should now be room for at least 7 or 8 lanes under Deerfoot; just needs to have the slope of the current support piers changed; making this section just a little wider:
https://maps.app.goo.gl/PxPEM7yzSA9yKMuA6