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Originally Posted by Free Ben Hur!
Thanks. This is a progress update but it didn't see anything about progress against budget or schedule.
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Every news report I've heard from the start has said that it's on time and on budget. The actual concrete tunnel work is on pace to be complete sometime in early October (extrapolating from the pace on the each monthly update). Once the tunnel is turned over to the airport authority to start building on top of, the risk of extra cost due to delay goes way down. Nearly all elements of the project have been tendered already, I think.
It still wouldnt surprise me to find out a couple if years from now that the tunnel was finished for significantly under budget, and perhaps the savings can be used as a good start on funding phase two, which will allow the connection to Metis Trail (and thus to Stoney Trail), at which point, the tunnel becomes immensely useful for people in many areas of Calgary and southern Alberta.
As I've argued before, people from near the 22x and south of Calgary will use Stoney to get to the airport, and not Deerfoot, meaning that they will use the tunnel.