View Poll Results: When will the ring road be completed?
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1-3 years
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4-7 years
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7-10 years
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10-20 years
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Never
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10-01-2013, 08:14 PM
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#1421
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Franchise Player
Join Date: Nov 2009
Location: Calgary
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Yeah there's something oddly poetic about "ring road to nowhere", I realize OP was talking about the SW leg which will indeed be in the middle of nowhere... but at the moment they're widening Stoney NW between Crowchild and Deerfoot as they come up on 50,000 vehicles per day. Stoney has quickly become a massively important thoroughfare, even more-so in a few weeks if these guys in the SE can get it together.
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10-01-2013, 08:19 PM
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#1422
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Crash and Bang Winger
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Ozzy Osborne and road to nowhere didn't come to mind?
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10-01-2013, 09:40 PM
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#1423
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Franchise Player
Join Date: Aug 2008
Location: California
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Quote:
Originally Posted by Acey
Yeah there's something oddly poetic about "ring road to nowhere", I realize OP was talking about the SW leg which will indeed be in the middle of nowhere... but at the moment they're widening Stoney NW between Crowchild and Deerfoot as they come up on 50,000 vehicles per day. Stoney has quickly become a massively important thoroughfare, even more-so in a few weeks if these guys in the SE can get it together.
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Its also that all ring roads go no where as they are just a loop and you end up where you start.
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10-01-2013, 10:00 PM
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#1424
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Franchise Player
Join Date: Nov 2009
Location: Calgary
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Ours is a horseshoe road, as per McIver: "Without the southwest portion, it's kind of a horseshoe road. While that's a nice tribute to Calgary's Western heritage, it's not a ring road."
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10-01-2013, 10:05 PM
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#1425
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Franchise Player
Join Date: Apr 2008
Location: Calgary
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Originally Posted by photon
Anyone know who to call about road markings? I called 311 but they said it was some company like "Carmack" that I had to talk to, and she transferred me, but I had to hang up before I got through.
17th Ave SE WB right before Stony (between Stony and 84th) the lanes are very irregular, and the line they painted isn't very visible so everyone follows some other lane marker (or none at all). Every single time I'm in the right lane there I have someone either cut me off, almost crash into me so I have to slam on my brakes or eat a pylon, or honk at me because they can't figure out that the two lanes still exist even if they aren't very well marked. Dangerous for anyone wanting to go 17th Ave SE WB to Stony NB.
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Gross, I wouldn't wish that on anyone...
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10-01-2013, 10:09 PM
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#1426
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Lifetime Suspension
Join Date: Sep 2007
Location: blow me
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Originally Posted by Boblobla
Gross, I wouldn't wish that on anyone...
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I heard he's gentle.
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10-02-2013, 08:07 AM
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#1427
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In the Sin Bin
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Quote:
Originally Posted by GGG
Its also that all ring roads go no where as they are just a loop and you end up where you start.
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And if you are particularly unfortunate, you can end up on Anthony Henday/Ray Gibbons drive and be stuck in Edmonton forever! 
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10-02-2013, 08:26 AM
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#1428
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Powerplay Quarterback
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Quote:
Originally Posted by Acey
Yeah there's something oddly poetic about "ring road to nowhere", I realize OP was talking about the SW leg which will indeed be in the middle of nowhere... but at the moment they're widening Stoney NW between Crowchild and Deerfoot as they come up on 50,000 vehicles per day. Stoney has quickly become a massively important thoroughfare, even more-so in a few weeks if these guys in the SE can get it together.
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Why not do that off the get go? I'm not sure why you'd open and re-do two years later. It's got to be more expensive?
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10-02-2013, 08:31 AM
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#1429
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Voted for Kodos
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Originally Posted by ranchlandsselling
Why not do that off the get go? I'm not sure why you'd open and re-do two years later. It's got to be more expensive?
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The ongoing maintenance of an extra lane for 5 years costs more then stripping off some topsoil.
It was designed to be easy to do, and it's turning out to be easy.
(The bridges over West Nose Creek should have been built wider to start, granted)
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10-02-2013, 11:24 AM
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#1430
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Join Date: Jul 2005
Location: in your blind spot.
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In the NE corner, why does the turn push out extra far? Was there an issue with the natural turning radius? There has to be some reason I just don't see.
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10-02-2013, 11:42 AM
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#1431
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Retired
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Is there a reason they have not expanded 101st to link HWY 1 & 8 together yet?
Instead they spend their time with RCMP cars sitting in gravel pits to try to catch people taking the short cut
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10-02-2013, 11:55 AM
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#1432
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Powerplay Quarterback
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Quote:
Originally Posted by Bobblehead
In the NE corner, why does the turn push out extra far? Was there an issue with the natural turning radius? There has to be some reason I just don't see.
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The weird turn on NE Stoney trail was layed out that way to facilitate a future interchange connecting to the north. It's something like a 30 year possibility
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10-02-2013, 02:35 PM
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#1433
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Powerplay Quarterback
Join Date: Apr 2006
Location: Mahogany, aka halfway to Lethbridge
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Quote:
Originally Posted by photon
Anyone know who to call about road markings? I called 311 but they said it was some company like "Carmack" that I had to talk to, and she transferred me, but I had to hang up before I got through.
17th Ave SE WB right before Stony (between Stony and 84th) the lanes are very irregular, and the line they painted isn't very visible so everyone follows some other lane marker (or none at all). Every single time I'm in the right lane there I have someone either cut me off, almost crash into me so I have to slam on my brakes or eat a pylon, or honk at me because they can't figure out that the two lanes still exist even if they aren't very well marked. Dangerous for anyone wanting to go 17th Ave SE WB to Stony NB.
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I know what you mean. 22X westbound under McKenzie Lake Dr. is a Sh**show. It's three lanes leading up to the underpass then the lane markings kind of straggle and peter out, then there's a bunch pylons placed in what would be the middle of the inside lane, then about 100m farther along, the third lane magically reappears...
Between the mentally challenged traffic control on 52nd, the failure to put signs up before changing the exits (I too had to do a uturn on 22x the other day because of the new Eastbound exit which was not signed), and these lane markings that are actually dangerous (in my opinion), the contractor has done a simply terrible job of traffic control on this leg.
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Last edited by onetwo_threefour; 10-02-2013 at 03:09 PM.
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10-02-2013, 04:55 PM
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#1434
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Franchise Player
Join Date: Nov 2009
Location: Calgary
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Quote:
Originally Posted by Bobblehead
In the NE corner, why does the turn push out extra far? Was there an issue with the natural turning radius? There has to be some reason I just don't see.
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Originally Posted by CaramonLS
Is there a reason they have not expanded 101st to link HWY 1 & 8 together yet?
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Yeah, they're gonna try to connect those 2 roads with Stoney Trail. The waiting game continues.
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10-02-2013, 07:51 PM
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#1435
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Franchise Player
Join Date: Mar 2002
Location: Calgary
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The lane markings issue reminds me of that great Seinfeld where Kramer adopts 1 mile of road and turns 3 lanes into 2.
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10-02-2013, 08:46 PM
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#1436
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In the Sin Bin
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Man, it is hard to imagine that there will ever be a need for an east Freeway that continues north from that bend. Certainly a commuter route once the city grows out that way, but not a highway interchange designed to be at-speed in all directions.
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10-02-2013, 09:41 PM
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#1437
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Playboy Mansion Poolboy
Join Date: Apr 2004
Location: Close enough to make a beer run during a TV timeout
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You and I will never see it. However in 40, 50 or 75 years it will be extremely valueable to have that as an option there. Just look at all the projects that were thought about in the 40s, 50s and 60s that never happened. Imagine if half of them were pre-planned like this; we wouldn't nearly as many problems in the city with traffic.
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10-02-2013, 09:56 PM
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#1438
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Franchise Player
Join Date: Nov 2009
Location: Calgary
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Once Airdrie's 100,000 strong... it'll be nice to have that go up and meet up with QE2 near Crossfield.
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10-03-2013, 07:00 AM
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#1439
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First Line Centre
Join Date: Nov 2006
Location: Calgary
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If we don't have Jetson's style flying cars in 40 years, then we have failed as a species.
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10-03-2013, 07:32 AM
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#1440
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Franchise Player
Join Date: Nov 2009
Location: Calgary
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Hopefully they don't have flying cars too soon so as to render Stoney/Henday useless, as we'll be paying for them till 2050.
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