View Poll Results: When will the ring road be completed?
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05-15-2024, 09:17 PM
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#5441
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wins 10 internets
Join Date: Feb 2006
Location: slightly to the left
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So why is northbound Stoney still 80 km/h across the new Bow bridge while southbound is 100? Construction has been finished for quite awhile now, are they just keeping that section as a honey pot?
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05-16-2024, 07:34 AM
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#5442
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Scoring Winger
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CPS is not allowed to set up speed-traps on Stoney anymore.
My guess is the huge bump where the road and bridge meet and the cars still going 100 catching air from that.
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05-16-2024, 07:46 AM
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#5443
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Franchise Player
Join Date: Sep 2008
Location: Calgary
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Quote:
Originally Posted by Hemi-Cuda
So why is northbound Stoney still 80 km/h across the new Bow bridge while southbound is 100? Construction has been finished for quite awhile now, are they just keeping that section as a honey pot?
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Is it still officially 80, or are people just going 80? Maybe I have missed the 80 sign. I so, take back my words to the strugglers still going 80 through there.
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05-16-2024, 08:14 AM
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#5444
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Scoring Winger
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Originally Posted by FunkMasterFlame
CPS is not allowed to set up speed-traps on Stoney anymore.
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They're certainly able to still do the regular radar/laser speed traps, just not photo radar.
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05-16-2024, 08:15 AM
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#5445
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Scoring Winger
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When is this damn bridge over the river gonna be finished
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05-16-2024, 08:39 AM
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#5446
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Franchise Player
Join Date: Mar 2012
Location: Sylvan Lake
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Originally Posted by TheIronMaiden
I don't care what anyone says. I love the ring road.
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Wait people actually dislike the ring road?
Why, it's ####ing grand.
The only draw back is it doesn't seem to pull vehicles that are passing through, they still seem to drive on Deerfoot.
But I'm struggling to find the negatives.
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05-16-2024, 09:05 AM
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#5447
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Franchise Player
Join Date: Nov 2009
Location: Calgary
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So the bridge taking forever is already done, I went over it the other day... and they're rehabbing the old one. So clearly they're in the home stretch since the original delay was girders for the new bridge. Yes it's one way traffic still on the new bridge but clearly we're in the home stretch.
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Originally Posted by undercoverbrother
The only draw back is it doesn't seem to pull vehicles that are passing through, they still seem to drive on Deerfoot.
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If one is a ring road user, they instead might see this as a positive.
A lot of people are using navigation apps of some sort, and for example right now a through trip is showing the same time on Stoney vs Deerfoot, but Stoney is 4 km more so it will default to Deerfoot. Only at peak times are there significant time savings.
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05-16-2024, 09:54 AM
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#5448
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First Line Centre
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Quote:
Originally Posted by Hemi-Cuda
So why is northbound Stoney still 80 km/h across the new Bow bridge while southbound is 100? Construction has been finished for quite awhile now, are they just keeping that section as a honey pot?
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Southbound going down the hill towards the Bow Bridge is also 80. I am wondering why Calgary likes to do this kind of stupid sh*t where major freeways often have different speeds at different sections (Crowchild is another example)
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05-16-2024, 10:10 AM
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#5449
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Franchise Player
Join Date: Sep 2008
Location: Calgary
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Originally Posted by lazypucker
Southbound going down the hill towards the Bow Bridge is also 80. I am wondering why Calgary likes to do this kind of stupid sh*t where major freeways often have different speeds at different sections (Crowchild is another example)
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Crowchild I can understand. The stretch between 12 Mile Coulee Road and 24th Avenue is wide open, nice overpasses and merges, etc. and 80 works nicely.
Once you get into that middle section with the lights, narrowing, no shoulders, etc. I can see why it drops through there.
Stoney, however, was built from scratch to be 100 (or more, probably) consistently, which makes the speed drops frustrating.
Southbound Stoney as you approach the Bow River is another one of my favourite things - a lane ending on the left on a major highway. Nonsense, IMO.
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05-16-2024, 01:36 PM
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#5450
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Franchise Player
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Quote:
Originally Posted by lazypucker
Southbound going down the hill towards the Bow Bridge is also 80. I am wondering why Calgary likes to do this kind of stupid sh*t where major freeways often have different speeds at different sections (Crowchild is another example)
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I don't think the City has jurisdiction of the speed limit on Stoney (?), but yes it seems to be silly having it 80 all the way down the hill.
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05-19-2024, 07:51 PM
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#5451
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Franchise Player
Join Date: Nov 2009
Location: Calgary
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Stoney and Henday mainline design speed is 110, Alberta Transportation posts at 10 kph under design speed. Not sure what's going on with the speed reduction on the west side, haven't been over there in a while.
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06-22-2024, 08:14 AM
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#5452
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Franchise Player
Join Date: Sep 2008
Location: Calgary
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I saw crews setting up last night on Southbound Stoney, just south of Nose Hill Drive. There are signs up for lane closures this weekend. It appears they they are fixing that big bump (particularly bad in the merge lane), and that 80 zone may finally be gone.
Also, it has been a few weeks now, but that silly left lane disappearing as you head west near Discovery Ridge has also been fixed.
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08-09-2024, 11:11 AM
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#5453
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First Line Centre
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Any updates on the bridge completion on Stoney near Cranston? If it's done by fall that would help a ton with back to school traffic
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08-09-2024, 12:05 PM
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#5454
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Franchise Player
Join Date: Aug 2005
Location: Violating Copyrights
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There's still 4 or 5 guys still futzing around everyday at the expansion joints. Pavement is down and the lanes are marked up but not painted. There's still some gaps in the concrete walls.
When I was in Vancouver for my sons baseball, I met a guy at our hotel who was an oversize load truck driver who was there doing work on one of the new bridges. He asked where we were from and we said Calgary. He delivered the beams for both bridges and couldn't believe that it wasnt finished yet. That was in May.
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08-09-2024, 06:35 PM
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#5455
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First Line Centre
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Originally Posted by Calgary14
Any updates on the bridge completion on Stoney near Cranston? If it's done by fall that would help a ton with back to school traffic
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2025 fall completion.
Just in time to resurface the newer south bridge.
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08-10-2024, 09:23 PM
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#5456
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Such a pretty girl!
Join Date: Jan 2004
Location: Calgary
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Beauty of a day. Work going on at the Deerfoot/Anderson site. None at the The Bridge....
At this point it just seems like the contractor feels there's no pressure and sends the crews to other sites to work.
Speaking of, was wondering today what the cost of the Deerfoot improvements are now pegged at, vs when they were supposed to go through prior and UCP decided to redo the study.
If the LRT has seen such an increase, surely Deerfoot has as well?
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08-11-2024, 12:37 PM
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#5457
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CP Gamemaster
Join Date: Feb 2010
Location: The Gary
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Originally Posted by BlackArcher101
Speaking of, was wondering today what the cost of the Deerfoot improvements are now pegged at, vs when they were supposed to go through prior and UCP decided to redo the study.
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$615 million now, and that's with a reduced scope from the original project. It was originally estimated at $478 million.
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08-15-2024, 12:33 PM
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#5458
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Franchise Player
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I was done in Salt Lake City earlier this month and I saw some interesting road design that I don't recall seeing anywhere else. At some of the busier intersections they have it set up so that left turning traffic crosses the oncoming lanes up the street from the intersection and they drive down a little "slip road" where they can then turn left. I thought this was really interesting and I can see it potentially being more efficient for traffic flow.
Example:
https://www.google.com/maps/@40.6668...5410&entry=ttu
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08-15-2024, 01:44 PM
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#5459
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Scoring Winger
Join Date: Dec 2008
Location: Calgary
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Quote:
Originally Posted by Hemi-Cuda
So why is northbound Stoney still 80 km/h across the new Bow bridge while southbound is 100? Construction has been finished for quite awhile now, are they just keeping that section as a honey pot?
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Probably old news but the speed is posted at 100 km/h now. Wanna say I noticed it 2 weeks ago
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08-15-2024, 02:23 PM
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#5460
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Voted for Kodos
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Quote:
Originally Posted by calgarygeologist
I was done in Salt Lake City earlier this month and I saw some interesting road design that I don't recall seeing anywhere else. At some of the busier intersections they have it set up so that left turning traffic crosses the oncoming lanes up the street from the intersection and they drive down a little "slip road" where they can then turn left. I thought this was really interesting and I can see it potentially being more efficient for traffic flow.
Example:
https://www.google.com/maps/@40.6668...5410&entry=ttu
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Sounds like a continuous flow intersection:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Contin...w_intersection
I know at one point it was looked at in a Barlow/McKnight intersection study , I don't know where else in the city.
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