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Originally Posted by Boris2k7
See, now that was a more reasonable rebuttal.
Now I question you, just for the sake of argumentation what standards you would bring those roads up to. McKnightmare doesn't sound like it would be too much of a problem, but what about John Laurie? And would this route be suitable for a BRT or HOV, if it was expanded (or even if it wasn't?). I ask this because I feel that road expansions are the absolute last resort, unless there is a situation involving a bottleneck due to previous expansions. I would go so far as to ask what could be done with this "corridor" and if it has the potential for densification if a higher-speed route was constructed.
I think that on the TCH at least, the point of this thread, you and I are seeing eye to eye, which I of course find quite aggreable.
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Well we might disagree a little here. I would expand John Laurie Blvd to 6 lanes between Shaganappi Trail, much like what happened to Beddington Trail this past summer. I would also do something with the Shaganappi/John Laurie interesection, whether it would be building an interchange or expanding the number turning lanes. Shaganappi would serve as connector to Crowchild (though another possiblity is Sarcee Trail), where "express" traffic would go if they wanted to go further west, as it's already a freeway, so there is no need to build a parellel freeway. As it stands now, John Laurie prohibits truck traffic west of Shaganappi and downgrades from an expressway to an arterial street west of Sarcee, so I would be inclined leave it as is. Eventually I would maybe construct an interchange at Charleswood Drive and possibly Brisebois Dr (avoid adding more signals) and either close or convert the other intersections between Shaganappi and 14 St into RIRO.
As for BRT? I would be curious to see how successful it would be in Calgary and I'm not sure of if the John Laurie/McKnight corridor would be the best place for the first experiment. I say allow for it down the road (no pun intended). A possiblity for HOV could be to designate certain lanes as HOV during peak periods only.
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Originally Posted by craner
This sounds like a reasonable option - just have to deal with the "Hazardous Goods" issue accross the reservoir.
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If I'm not mistaken, I believe that certain not-so-Hazardous Goods are permitted to use the causeway. As for the others? I'm not sure the real hazardous goods should be taking 16 Ave either, so that's where Stoney Trail comes in.