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View Poll Results: When will the ring road be completed?
1-3 years 8 3.85%
4-7 years 91 43.75%
7-10 years 65 31.25%
10-20 years 20 9.62%
Never 24 11.54%
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Old 10-01-2013, 08:14 PM   #1421
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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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Old 10-01-2013, 08:19 PM   #1422
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Ozzy Osborne and road to nowhere didn't come to mind?
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Old 10-01-2013, 09:40 PM   #1423
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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.
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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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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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.
Gross, I wouldn't wish that on anyone...
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Gross, I wouldn't wish that on anyone...
I heard he's gentle.
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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.
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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Old 10-02-2013, 08:26 AM   #1428
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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.
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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Old 10-02-2013, 08:31 AM   #1429
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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?
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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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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Old 10-02-2013, 11:42 AM   #1431
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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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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.
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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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.
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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Old 10-02-2013, 04:55 PM   #1434
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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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Is there a reason they have not expanded 101st to link HWY 1 & 8 together yet?
Yeah, they're gonna try to connect those 2 roads with Stoney Trail. The waiting game continues.
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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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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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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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Old 10-02-2013, 09:56 PM   #1438
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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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Old 10-03-2013, 07:00 AM   #1439
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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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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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