Crowchild Tr- Kensington bottleneck

[DoNotCompute]

Time for a Calgary version of the "big dig"?

That tunnel cost upwards of 14 billion dollars... and leaks.

Please god let there be other options!

[undercoverbrother]

i don't miss this problem....one of my favourite things now is to listen to the traffic report from Calgary while I drive him........rural living, yeah it sucks.

[Handsome B. Wonderful]

Originally Posted by fotze

You listen to traffic reports while banging dudes?

He needs to know which exits he can take.

[Sr. Mints]

That intersection is pretty bad heading north.

First Kensington Rd. then 5th: both lights can be brutal. After those, I loop around on University Dr. and go east on 24th Ave. to where I'm going, and it shaves a few minutes off my trip.

I live close to Bow Tr. and 33rd SW, and many times I just take Sarcee Tr. to get just north of downtown. Tons of back tracking, but during rush hour it's still faster than Crowchild, 14th St. or 10th St.

[Kavvy]

Originally Posted by REDVAN

In America (specifically Texas), they'd close the road over a long weekend, and BOOM you'd have your super mega freeway in 3 days. GET IT DONE NENSHI. I'm pretty sure Calgarians can work around a closed section on a major road for say, 2 months, in order to get this done properly.

Get a ring road agreement in, build the ring road, bump traffic from Sarcee Trail to Stony, bump traffic from Crowchild to Sarcee and to Stony, and this could happen!

To bad that portion of the ring road is generations away.

[TurnedTheCorner]

I assume that to do anything meaningful between 5th Ave and 24th Ave that the apartments at Crowchild would have to be leveled. Already when I'm going south, I take the far right lane and exit towards University, then turn left and merge back onto Crowchild towards 5th. It's a modest time saver if you hit the light, and if you don't you still have the illusion of moving before and after the light, instead of crawling down the hill.

Aren't they redeveloping those old senior bungalows by the Enmax station as well, on the southwest corner of Crowchild and Kensington? I assume that land would be needed as well to do an interchange in place of the lights.

[bizaro86]

Originally Posted by TurnedTheCorner

I assume that to do anything meaningful between 5th Ave and 24th Ave that the apartments at Crowchild would have to be leveled. Already when I'm going south, I take the far right lane and exit towards University, then turn left and merge back onto Crowchild towards 5th. It's a modest time saver if you hit the light, and if you don't you still have the illusion of moving before and after the light, instead of crawling down the hill.

Aren't they redeveloping those old senior bungalows by the Enmax station as well, on the southwest corner of Crowchild and Kensington? I assume that land would be needed as well to do an interchange in place of the lights.

The lions club ripped them down and is building a seniors complex there. It's about 4 stories tall, iirc.

[Bigtime]

Originally Posted by bizaro86

The lions club ripped them down and is building a seniors complex there. It's about 4 stories tall, iirc.

You are correct, it is already up. They are putting siding on it right now.