Road Constructions in Calgary

[Fuzz]

Originally Posted by TorqueDog

You need to look at the specific traffic circle linked (https://maps.app.goo.gl/E4u1FiWH2PHMKpfU6). The 'circle' portion literally has stop signs as it comes to intersecting roadways.

I'm not even sure that counts as a traffic circle. The east west bits with stops signs are more like stub streets.



This monstrosity in Sherwood Park is another Edmonton adjacent failure. On first glance it doesn't look bad, but if you ever have to use it you quickly realize it does not function at all like a proper traffic circle. I felt far more safe on the wrong side of the road in the UK bouncing through chained traffic circles than in this thing.


https://maps.app.goo.gl/58icJKUEcLNsxJBj9

[Shazam]

Originally Posted by TorqueDog

You need to look at the specific traffic circle linked (https://maps.app.goo.gl/E4u1FiWH2PHMKpfU6). The 'circle' portion literally has stop signs as it comes to intersecting roadways.

That's not a traffic circle or roundabout. It just sorta looks like one. They're just spread out intersections because Edmonton is stupid.

[Shazam]

Originally Posted by Fuzz

I'm not even sure that counts as a traffic circle. The east west bits with stops signs are more like stub streets.



This monstrosity in Sherwood Park is another Edmonton adjacent failure. On first glance it doesn't look bad, but if you ever have to use it you quickly realize it does not function at all like a proper traffic circle. I felt far more safe on the wrong side of the road in the UK bouncing through chained traffic circles than in this thing.


https://maps.app.goo.gl/58icJKUEcLNsxJBj9

Edmonton was an early adopter of traffic circles in Canada, unfortunately that meant that they didn't quite know what they were doing. The elevation on a lot of the circles are wrong, so people aren't aware that they're actually entering a circle until they're in the circle.

[powderjunkie]

Originally Posted by Shazam

Edmonton was an early adopter of traffic circles in Canada, unfortunately that meant that they didn't quite know what they were doing. The elevation on a lot of the circles are wrong, so people aren't aware that they're actually entering a circle until they're in the circle.

For the areas I'm most familiar with, it seemed like they were early adopters of trying to minimize traffic lights, or at least the number of movements. Which means som creative abominations, but a lot of them work pretty well

Here's a land intensive example of getting a major left turn movement away from the main lights. And they managed to plop a McDonald's into the dead space

https://maps.app.goo.gl/nRojG3RT1qkcdbVz9

[Mazrim]

Originally Posted by GGG

I don’t believe this is true. From a yielding point of view a traffic circle and aroundabout are the same thing. See the link above form Alberta or the link below from AMA

https://ama.ab.ca/articles/traffic-c...les-in-alberta

I'm not surprised to hear there's no legal difference but it's definitely a terminology many use to separate old and new roundabout designs.

https://highways.dot.gov/public-road...safer-highways

Originally Posted by Acey

Then build it and don't ask the public who don't know anything about how interchanges work. I didn't say a DDI wasn't safer, but merely that it'd be anomolous for Calgary to not build a parclo when they have ROW to build a parclo.

That's why the engagement site says the public input will be a data point in determining the best option and not the sole decision. If there's a consistent message from the public they can still pick their preferred design but tweak it to try to address some of those concerns.

[RW99]

Originally Posted by RW99

Little bump...


For all Legacy/Silverado Residents: The city is gathering feedback on the Macleod and 210th interchange and there are two proposals. I love the diverging diamond at 162nd, so hoping they can implement it here too: https://engage.calgary.ca/210aveinterchange

Survey results came back, 2/3 voted for DDI which was nice to see. Hopefully they continue with only DDI going forward. There was a design posted for Phase 2, looks like two images of one design: https://hdp-ca-prod-app-cgy-engage-f...NAL_250606.pdf

[ken0042]

Spring 2025 Construction Update for Deerfoot Trail. Pretty long read but lots of good info:
Deerfoot Spring 2025 Update

[redflamesfan08]

Originally Posted by ken0042

Spring 2025 Construction Update for Deerfoot Trail. Pretty long read but lots of good info:
Deerfoot Spring 2025 Update

Maybe better put in the cyclist thread, but I've been very impressed with the fact that there have been no closures to the paths on either side of the river (yet) and they have been very good about fencing the paths off, moving them as needed. I'm absolutely shocked that a provincial project is doing this, I'm actually reluctant to send in thanks in case the morons at the top hear of it and put a stop to it.