View Poll Results: When will the ring road be completed?
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1-3 years
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3.85% |
4-7 years
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43.75% |
7-10 years
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31.25% |
10-20 years
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9.62% |
Never
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11.54% |
08-13-2019, 04:03 PM
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#3161
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It seems the ideal solution would have been to rename 'Sarcee' from Glenmore to 16 ave Nw (approx 9km) 'Tsuu T'ina Trail' and leave the entire ring road as Stoney. As it is, they are getting ~13km of naming rights...
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08-13-2019, 04:14 PM
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#3162
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First Line Centre
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Doesn't matter how they rename the roads, we mostly will refer them with the original name. I still call 22x the 22x, not the Spruce Meadows Trail sponsored by Atco Energy whatever crap it is. Same as say I will tell my friends to meet me at the Cineplex at Chinook rather than the Scotiabank Theatre....
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08-13-2019, 04:17 PM
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#3163
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One of the Nine
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Quote:
Originally Posted by lazypucker
Doesn't matter how they rename the roads, we mostly will refer them with the original name. I still call 22x the 22x, not the Spruce Meadows Trail sponsored by Atco Energy whatever crap it is. Same as say I will tell my friends to meet me at the Cineplex at Chinook rather than the Scotiabank Theatre....
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Don't forget poor Marquis of Lorne, who had a trail until those bastards went and completed Stoney and ripped the name right off the green signs.
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08-13-2019, 05:00 PM
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#3164
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Franchise Player
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Tsuu'tina Trail eh. Can't wait for the headache that is typing it into google maps or trying to get Google to understand what I'm saying.
Would have been far too logical to name the entire ring road one thing, or name each section its own.
Can't wait for some out of town schmuck who has to go from Stoney, to Tsutina, to Sarcee, onto the TCH, back onto Stoney, then to the Sarcee in the NW.
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08-13-2019, 05:03 PM
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#3165
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First Line Centre
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Quote:
Originally Posted by lazypucker
Doesn't matter how they rename the roads, we mostly will refer them with the original name. I still call 22x the 22x, not the Spruce Meadows Trail sponsored by Atco Energy whatever crap it is. Same as say I will tell my friends to meet me at the Cineplex at Chinook rather than the Scotiabank Theatre....
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Paramount Famous Players, you mean.
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08-13-2019, 05:05 PM
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#3166
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Franchise Player
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Quote:
Originally Posted by Ducay
Tsuu'tina Trail eh. Can't wait for the headache that is typing it into google maps or trying to get Google to understand what I'm saying.
Would have been far too logical to name the entire ring road one thing, or name each section its own.
Can't wait for some out of town schmuck who has to go from Stoney, to Tsutina, to Sarcee, onto the TCH, back onto Stoney, then to the Sarcee in the NW.
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I dunno, in theory it sound since to have it all be one name, but then you run into "go northbound on Stoney", but is that Stoney east or west? And if you have to specify, then you have 2 road names. Each leg would be fine with a separate name, with the exception of the NW, they all have logical change points.
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08-13-2019, 05:12 PM
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#3167
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Join Date: Sep 2008
Location: Calgary
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Quote:
Originally Posted by Fuzz
I dunno, in theory it sound since to have it all be one name, but then you run into "go northbound on Stoney", but is that Stoney east or west? And if you have to specify, then you have 2 road names. Each leg would be fine with a separate name, with the exception of the NW, they all have logical change points.
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Referring to it as lockwise and counter-clockwise would be logical. But that'll never catch on here. It works for the M25 in London quite nicely though.
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08-13-2019, 05:16 PM
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#3168
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Join Date: Aug 2005
Location: Memento Mori
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There are two Stoney Trail at Country Hills Boulevard intersections.
Wanna go east on Stoney? Take the north exit. Wanna go west? Take the south exit.
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08-13-2019, 05:25 PM
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#3169
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Join Date: Sep 2008
Location: Calgary
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Quote:
Originally Posted by Shazam
There are two Stoney Trail at Country Hills Boulevard intersections.
Wanna go east on Stoney? Take the north exit. Wanna go west? Take the south exit.
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Stoney actually has a few "duplicate" intersections. Country Hills, Deerfoot, 16th Avenue/Trans Canada, and eventually Glenmore.
One of my peeves is when a traffic report talks about an accident at Stoney and Country Hills, for example, but neglects the state the quadrant. An important detail.
Yet on a non-traffic news story they do the opposite. "An incident in the city's southwest!" despite that being a ridiculously vague and useless descriptor in a city this size. And then it ends up being half a block off of centre street downtown...
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08-13-2019, 05:37 PM
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#3170
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Franchise Player
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Yup, "accident at the onramp of Stoney at 16th ave" is not very helpful.
They could have gone with 2 names though. One for the west and north, and one for the east and south.
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08-13-2019, 06:00 PM
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#3171
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Join Date: Feb 2011
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Might as well keep it the naming as confusing as Crowchild.
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08-13-2019, 06:47 PM
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#3172
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Quote:
Originally Posted by Jimmy Stang
Stoney actually has a few "duplicate" intersections. Country Hills, Deerfoot, 16th Avenue/Trans Canada, and eventually Glenmore.
One of my peeves is when a traffic report talks about an accident at Stoney and Country Hills, for example, but neglects the state the quadrant. An important detail.
Yet on a non-traffic news story they do the opposite. "An incident in the city's southwest!" despite that being a ridiculously vague and useless descriptor in a city this size. And then it ends up being half a block off of centre street downtown...
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You think that's fun? Try being a 911 Operator, and getting people to tell you exactly where on Stoney they are...
"I'M ON STONEY! THE ONLY ONE IN THE CITY! STOP WITH YOUR STUPID QUESTIONS AND JUST GET HERE NOW!"
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08-13-2019, 07:49 PM
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#3173
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Just wait for "Im at the intersection of Stoney and Sarcee, and the suspect is traveling in the direction of Stoney and Country Hills".
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08-14-2019, 03:03 PM
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#3174
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Quote:
Originally Posted by Ducay
Tsuu'tina Trail eh. Can't wait for the headache that is typing it into google maps or trying to get Google to understand what I'm saying.
Would have been far too logical to name the entire ring road one thing, or name each section its own.
Can't wait for some out of town schmuck who has to go from Stoney, to Tsutina, to Sarcee, onto the TCH, back onto Stoney, then to the Sarcee in the NW.
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Thankfully they won't have to worry about that as they can stay on the ring road (Stoney/Tsuu tina) all the way from wherever they are starting in the south to Sarcee in the north. They never have to take Sarcee (south) or the TCH once the road is complete.
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11-04-2019, 01:56 PM
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#3175
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First Line Centre
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New southwest ring road connections done, but you can't use them yet
Lines painted, lights installed, but no driving on Southland Drive, 90th Avenue extensions until 2021
https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/calga...city-1.5345183
Just something to torture anyone living in and around the area before we all sigh and head towards a gridlocked 14th street.
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11-04-2019, 02:25 PM
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#3176
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If I were a kid and lived in the area that'd be my new favorite place to play. Street hockey, skateboarding bike ramps...it'd be like an amusement park.
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11-04-2019, 03:59 PM
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#3177
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Join Date: Dec 2010
Location: Calgary
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Quote:
Originally Posted by Old Yeller
Just something to torture anyone living in and around the area before we all sigh and head towards a gridlocked 14th street.
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I see the city websites are still claiming that construction will be done this year.
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11-04-2019, 05:03 PM
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#3178
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11-04-2019, 05:11 PM
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#3179
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In the Sin Bin
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Kinda silly they won't open the connector, but I suppose they might be concerned about the traffic on 90th.
Also, lol @ thinking this is closed to cyclists and pedestrians.
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11-04-2019, 05:13 PM
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#3180
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Franchise Player
Join Date: Aug 2012
Location: Seattle, WA
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Quote:
Originally Posted by Old Yeller
New southwest ring road connections done, but you can't use them yet
Lines painted, lights installed, but no driving on Southland Drive, 90th Avenue extensions until 2021
https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/calga...city-1.5345183
Just something to torture anyone living in and around the area before we all sigh and head towards a gridlocked 14th street.
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This is great news. The city has actually gotten pretty good at building roads the past few years, planning not so much.
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