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Roads, Highways & Infrastructure
- Thread starter Oddball
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CalgaryTiger
Senior Member
What in the overbuilt Alberta highway is this?
DougB
Senior Member
Looks like provision for one, maybe two extra lanes. Isn't that section of Deerfoot eventually planned as a collector/distributor system?
FCC1982
Senior Member
Gotta be for future expansion
CalgaryTiger
Senior Member
Interesting, I guess they have PTSD from the expansions that have been done repeatedly on the south Stoney bridge over the Bow River.
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El Dorado
New Member
does part of the Deerfoot expansion project include repaving of existing roads? There are so many potholes and rough sections along the entire length, it’s in very poor shape.
O-tac
Active Member
I think they’re going to rip up the current lanes to reconfigure it between Anderson and Ivor Strong bridge. There’s still another pillar for the flyover that needs to be built right in the middle of the current roadway. They’ve already re-routed sections for construction of other parts.
Further south Deerfoot is getting repaved between Mackenzie Towne and Cranston / Auburn Bay.
Further south Deerfoot is getting repaved between Mackenzie Towne and Cranston / Auburn Bay.
El Dorado
New Member
What about North between 64ave and Memorial? It’s in really bad shape apart from the new lane they are adding
FCC1982
Senior Member
Deerfoot has been crumbling and the road surface in really poor shape for the last few years. They have done some piecemeal patching but I really hope once the expansion work is done they re-pave the entire length of it. 
CalgaryTiger
Senior Member
Minister of Transportation logic: The issue with the Deerfoot is the bike lanes. Once that issue is sorted the Province will properly resurface Deerfoot Trail.
trtcttc
Senior Member
They say 70km of lanes will be resurfaced, I'm assuming they're not counting individual lanes? but rather both sides, so divide that by 2 you get 35km. Mckenzie Towne to Airport Trail is about 32km. If they count some on/off ramps, should still be a decent portion they'll resurface. Likely just waiting for all the work to finish.
Golfing guy
Active Member
Wonder what they will do with the section from Southland to 17th ave? That section was concrete originally and the expansion joints/seams lifted terribly. Even a foot of asphalt hasn’t helps much over the past 15 years. Wonder if they’d mill off all that asphalt and see if they could level the concrete base?
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O-tac
Active Member
So that’s why that section is always so bad!
outoftheice
Active Member
100% with this government they will wait until after the municipal election to resurface Deerfoot since most Calgarians are unaware that Deerfoot is a provincial responsibility and will instead blame Gondek and Council for problems created by the province. If Calgary elects a conservative mayor and council in the fall, watch many of these provincial jurisdiction issues magically get fixed.
Mountain Man
Senior Member
The work on Deerfoot is underway and should be entirely independent of the municipal election. This is a multi phase, multi year project that's already underway. Though if anyone is going to inject politics into the process, that wingbat Smith is likely the one.