Calgary Roads Discussion Thread

[DoubleF]

Originally Posted by cam_calderon

Racist.

As in... they come from a long lineage of NASCAR DNA or something?

Originally Posted by Wormius

I am sure it’s convenient if you’re using it to get onto Deerfoot. I don’t know why it suddenly turned people getting onto Beddington into Sunday drivers.

Also they need to find something better than a stop sign at 11th at Aero Gate. I have taken that route a couple of times, it should be a straight through for traffic on 11th and a yield for traffic coming from Aero.

That Aero gate intersection is stupid, for sure. It seemed like it was designed differently and then someone half assed it at the last moment.

What I will say for the Beddington ramp is that the sight lines are weird and is a bit of a jumbled mess at times for inexplicable reasons. A slight inconvenience in navigating the area, until chaos of bad drivers maxes out, which... is kinda a lot.

Merge at an angle instead of parallel to the lane with only a short bit of road once you get to the curve. Those going north bound will see both Beddington merge vehicles and vehicles taking the lane to go Deerfoot north.

So as the West bound driver, you have to evaluate look straight in front of you for bumper tag players and the excessively fearful, look front and left towards the ramp and overpass to make sure there's no traffic for a sudden stop due to congestion at the light/weaving of vehicles to get onto Beddington Blvd, to the right for vehicles going into Aero, to the right for vehicles coming out to merge onto Beddington and figure out depth perception from a distance to the right for vehicles going north instead of Beddington. The amount of times I've also seen vehicles stalled/stopped right on that overpass seems inexplicably high, especially when there's so much shoulder space just before and after for someone with car troubles to pull over instead.

I wish there was a visual divider for that East/West section from Aero so I don't see vehicles going northbound at a glance and only see the Beddington mergers on the right. That will help a lot in using peripheral vision to figure out if someone is coming in. But also IMO the only way to fix that now is to make the overpass a 3 lane so that those coming from Aero have their own lane and if they need to get on Beddington Blvd, make it so their lane does something similar to Country Hills Gate.

[powderjunkie]

If only there was a way to have an intersection without lights or stop signs. Maybe it could even make cars slow down a little bit when it's not busy, be much better for pedestrians, and flow consistently when busy, and would make major collisions nearly impossible.

It's a bit complicated though, shaped kinda like a heptadecagon. Probably too complex for our feeble north american minds.

[Jimmy Stang]

Originally Posted by Acey

It's terrible, they need a traffic light there. At 4 pm nobody from Aero will ever get through if they had a yield.

A roundabout would be nice, but I think that the land is a bit too hilly to do it properly. It would also have to have a decent radius as well because of all of the trucks.

[Wormius]

Whenever I have taken it, there are only a few cars coming from Aero, in fact if I had to guess it would be a bunch of cars that just come up the right lane on 11th and swing onto Aero so they don’t have to wait 25th in line at the stop sign.

[D as in David]

Originally Posted by DoubleF

As in... they come from a long lineage of NASCAR DNA or something?



That Aero gate intersection is stupid, for sure. It seemed like it was designed differently and then someone half assed it at the last moment.

What I will say for the Beddington ramp is that the sight lines are weird and is a bit of a jumbled mess at times for inexplicable reasons. A slight inconvenience in navigating the area, until chaos of bad drivers maxes out, which... is kinda a lot.

Merge at an angle instead of parallel to the lane with only a short bit of road once you get to the curve. Those going north bound will see both Beddington merge vehicles and vehicles taking the lane to go Deerfoot north.

So as the West bound driver, you have to evaluate look straight in front of you for bumper tag players and the excessively fearful, look front and left towards the ramp and overpass to make sure there's no traffic for a sudden stop due to congestion at the light/weaving of vehicles to get onto Beddington Blvd, to the right for vehicles going into Aero, to the right for vehicles coming out to merge onto Beddington and figure out depth perception from a distance to the right for vehicles going north instead of Beddington. The amount of times I've also seen vehicles stalled/stopped right on that overpass seems inexplicably high, especially when there's so much shoulder space just before and after for someone with car troubles to pull over instead.

I wish there was a visual divider for that East/West section from Aero so I don't see vehicles going northbound at a glance and only see the Beddington mergers on the right. That will help a lot in using peripheral vision to figure out if someone is coming in. But also IMO the only way to fix that now is to make the overpass a 3 lane so that those coming from Aero have their own lane and if they need to get on Beddington Blvd, make it so their lane does something similar to Country Hills Gate.

I don't drive that area but looking at Google streetview, it appears from road signs that the speed limit to merge onto Beddington from 11th is 30kph while the Beddington exit off of Deerfoot speed limit is 60kph. That can't help.

[topfiverecords]

Originally Posted by TorqueDog

^RAV4s are public enemy #1.

Every time a Toyota Corolla is totalled a RAV4 is born.

[Ironhorse]

Due to the closure of Deerfoot SB late this afternoon (because idiots), I rerouted my drive home via 16th Ave & Stoney Trail South. And even though it was a much longer distance, what a pleasant, surprisingly smooth drive that was. No massive pot holes, huge long cracks, heaved or missing pavement -- just driving heaven in comparison. I've been on better roads in sparsely populated inland Mexico than Deerfoot Trail between Memorial and Anderson right now.

[TorqueDog]

Stoney Trail from Glenmore to westbound 16 Ave NW might be my favourite stretch of road, just for the views.

[Locke]

I was on my way to work today and the guy in front of me hits his brakes but oddly was not slowing down at all....went straight through the guardrail.

At least it was residential, the guardrail took all the impact. I thought it was odd because I dont have Winter tires on my car but I had no trouble at all.

[Ironhorse]

Sounds like a two foot driver...

[Fuzz]

Originally Posted by Ironhorse

Sounds like a two foot driver...

A two foot driver...on their phone.

[woob]

How do people still not understand a zipper merge in this city?

With the water main repair, they’ve got one lane of 16ave closed for a section around the repair work. The amount of times people are lined up almost to the DQ in the left lane, and the right lane has a small handful of cars just cruising along comfortably. It’s madness.

I go through there most days, as I prefer that route versus going Crowchild (more of a mellow drive). Yesterday, some guy in a pickup truck in the left lane, was doing the half lane straddle in attempt to prevent people from going down the right lane. Zipper merges are more efficient, people!

[TorqueDog]

Originally Posted by woob

How do people still not understand a zipper merge in this city?

With the water main repair, they’ve got one lane of 16ave closed for a section around the repair work. The amount of times people are lined up almost to the DQ in the left lane, and the right lane has a small handful of cars just cruising along comfortably. It’s madness.

I go through there most days, as I prefer that route versus going Crowchild (more of a mellow drive). Yesterday, some guy in a pickup truck in the left lane, was doing the half lane straddle in attempt to prevent people from going down the right lane. Zipper merges are more efficient, people!

Because they're usually sneering while sitting in their car "Argh, what an ass hole, racing up to the front of the line, f'ck that guy."

The idea that getting into the lineup early isn't the most efficient way of moving traffic doesn't occur to them, because they're idiots.