I just drove it north and back south to Oakridge. WestHills used to be about a 20-25 minute drive either way in non peak times, now it took 10 minutes during rush hour.
Glenmore is now 5 minutes away... I still can't wrap my head around that.
Also as Acey said, the trees along it are absolutely gorgeous right now.
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Drove west, popped up into Westhills via the new Westhills Way, then back onto the ring road and onto 69th Street.
Most of it is great though I can see Westhills Way getting backed up on weekends with the traffic light. But the access to 69th Street - I'm not sure I can conceive of a worse design and I expect to see a lot of backups in all directions there.
The EB Glenmore weave zone thing is actually not that bad. Remember that a third party independent auditor had to approve that before they would have been allowed to make the change. Might be a lot of cars trying to cut across when there's big events at Grey Eagle, but otherwise it'll be mostly fine at a limit of 60. If it gets bad, they'll bail and put a semi-permanent barrier or pour a solid one again. We'll have to wait and see.
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But the access to 69th Street - I'm not sure I can conceive of a worse design and I expect to see a lot of backups in all directions there.
It's the same folded diamond that's used in multiple places elsewhere on both ring roads, and in all cases it's the best design given the geometric constraints of that area. The loop ramp is less than ideal, but they did that so that a westbound onramp from Westhills Way can exist. Stoney is free-flow underneath so it's obviously fine, WB Stoney into Discovery Ridge is a simple right turn so they're fine, and the heavy traffic turning left northbound will be at the opposite time of the day as the heavy traffic southbound to turn east.
I foresee zero backups here as long as as the north intersection is timed correctly.
Still boggles my mind a road like that is only 100 km/h. Could easily be 120.
Then it goes to 80 Km/h when it veers west and is 4 lanes! Just stupid.
Nice road I guess but this province can’t ever get anything right when it comes to speed. It should be 120 from fish creek road to 69th.
The speed limits all over this city are stupid. I almost never use the eastern ring road but I think there is a section around 16th Ave North or 17th south that drops down to 80 as well for no good reason.
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I took a quick drive up and down it this evening. Beautiful piece of road, can't wait to see what the rest of it is like, particularly when they get connected up at 16 Ave.
That road is a monument to the car. What a beautiful piece of overbuilt infrastructure. There are lanes and flyovers everywhere.
What looks overbuilt now, will look under-built 20 years from now. Calgary really needed a ring road for over 40 years.
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The speed limits all over this city are stupid. I almost never use the eastern ring road but I think there is a section around 16th Ave North or 17th south that drops down to 80 as well for no good reason.
No reduced speed, but it is only 2 lanes in that area, which is arguably the busiest section on the East side.
This is of course no consolation for the man whose house was demolished on Weaselhead Road.
For anyone who has every fought "City Hall" (and I include any body of government in this context) on a matter and ultimately lost - this was an incredibly satisfying thing to watch. Now that's a mic drop....
Yes - there's the needs of the greater good. Yes, it was a vote of the Nation that approved this. But when individuals, lose homes or have them irrevocably changed for the worse - that belief still exists and smolders in individuals.
Remind me to watch the Midfield Mobile Home Park Opening Ceremonies...
I think there is a section around 16th Ave North or 17th south that drops down to 80 as well for no good reason.
Incorrect. The entire NE and SE section is 100.
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it goes to 80 Km/h when it veers west and is 4 lanes! Just stupid.
Pretty sure that's temporary cause of work in the median. Doesn't make sense for the speed limit to reduce halfway through the curve, but I'm looking into it.
Drove the piece down to 90th last night, in person that median width is enormous. The SB Sarcee to EB Glenmore or SB Tsuu-T'ina interchange caught most everyone off guard, lots of jamming on the brakes and making a mad dash to the right to get on the Glenmore flyover. Hopefully when all is said and done there is a bit more signage to line people out before the lights at Richmond.
Curious to know the intimate additional concessions/allowances provided to those band members, whom had their homes destroyed.
Or was it just $275k/per?
Is it their internal band politics, that we may never know, unless a reporter sits down with this young member and he divulges?
Potentially $68000 per person according this article. The band received $275 million. Half of which they said they are keeping in trust for future projects. That leaves, 137.5 mil There are 2000 band members. So if distributed equally, it's $68750 per member.
