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Originally Posted by Corndogger
Anyone who's actually been paying attention to this project has known about these plans for a long time. You would also know why the road has to be that big in that area. Since you and others against this projects don't know the history and reasoning behind the scope of the project why would you expect anyone to believe that you know the area will NEVER require the capacity they are proposing? There are plenty of examples in Calgary where we were told roads would be able to handle the volumes they were designed for well into the future only to find out a few short years later they were already reaching capacity levels that allowed for relatively free movement of vehicles. The SWRR will likely have 100K/day shortly after the west leg is done. The 30 year forecast is a joke.
One other point. A lot more roads in Calgary need a CD system for safety and efficiency. It's time we start building big city roads and stop catering to special interest groups.
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My posts have never said anything to indicate I am against the SWRR, I have always been supportive of it and am glad it's getting built, and hopefully the remaining section is built shortly after. What I am opposed to is needless government waste, a position supported by most Calgarians but somehow lacking when it comes to arenas and pointless overbuilding.
The government have stated they have no plans to build an outer ring road, they knew this in 2012 yet they still built the SWRR with provision to include it. They also project relatively light usage of the road out until 2050, less than half of what Deerfoot will carry on a much smaller and worse designed road. If you don't believe them, fine, but it's the only trustworthy data we have and the only data they will be using to decide how big of a road to build. That said, I think we can all be pretty confident the SW will remain the least used section of the ringroad, so why would we choose to give that section a C/D system and not the rest of the ringroad which will be more heavily used?
As you pointed out though, this is all water under the bridge. The time to be opposed to this was years ago as to change it now would be an even bigger waste. I need to start being more vocal on this as it's not the first time I've seen a huge mistake which is largely unnoticed, but I don't have the direct line to the media that the busybody NIMBYs in the SW do.