jhbuilt
Active Member
IMO Deerfoot and glenmore area should be a priority along with Anderson/bowbottom bottleneck
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jhbuilt
Active Member
Looks like both of these are included in the comment/link above. The deerfoot improvements
DougB
Senior Member
Where are Osprey Hills and the remaining Cranston lands? The existing community of Cranston seems close to build out.
I could see Macleod 194th or Sarcee and Richmond going ahead. Maybe with the huge growth in the Haskayne area of the NW (Rockland Park), an interchange at 12 Mile Coulee might make sense. An LRT extension to 12 Mile Coulee might also make sense.
DougB
Senior Member
I group those under "Stoney N" improvements. The pace and relative low cost of those improvements speaks to the high level of engineering design put into Stoney Trail.The city is currently building 6 new interchanges on Stoney trail.
City of Calgary completes new interchange at Stoney Trail & 14 Street N.W.
Northwest Calgary has experienced significant population and traffic growth over the last few years. With the development of new communities, many residents access Stoney Trail and other parts of the city via four on and off ramps at 14th Street N.W. and interchanges at Symons Valley Road...newsroom.calgary.ca
MichaelS
Senior Member
Woops, typo on my end. I meant to say Crestmont, not Cranston. Osprey Hills is a new community just to the west of COP. It got 3rd reading at council back in September:
Richmond Road and Sarcee Trail is another good suggestion. There is an approved functional planning design, and the opening of SW Stoney Trail may cause traffic to really bottle neck at that intersection if/when travel patterns return to normal post Covid, and commuters from the deep south west look to get downtown without using Macleod:
DougB
Senior Member
Crestmont broke ground in 1999, so its buildout took forever as it is not that large of a community. Osperey Hills doesn't look all that large either. The NW and W sides of the city are approaching buildout. Osperey and Rockmont Park will be some of the last suburban communities build in that direction. I could see future growth really taking off along SW Stoney, eventually requiring some improvements out that way.Woops, typo on my end. I meant to say Crestmont, not Cranston. Osprey Hills is a new community just to the west of COP. It got 3rd reading at council back in September:
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Richmond Road and Sarcee Trail is another good suggestion. There is an approved functional planning design, and the opening of SW Stoney Trail may cause traffic to really bottle neck at that intersection if/when travel patterns return to normal post Covid, and commuters from the deep south west look to get downtown without using Macleod:
If Stoney ends up dumping lots of traffic onto Sarcee, the intersection at Bow Trail will also likely require grade separation.
darwink
Senior Member
Key word here is may. Stoney may also have the opposite effect, displacing a few percent of traffic. Certainly that is the hope at Bow, Sarcee.Woops, typo on my end. I meant to say Crestmont, not Cranston. Osprey Hills is a new community just to the west of COP. It got 3rd reading at council back in September:
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Richmond Road and Sarcee Trail is another good suggestion. There is an approved functional planning design, and the opening of SW Stoney Trail may cause traffic to really bottle neck at that intersection if/when travel patterns return to normal post Covid, and commuters from the deep south west look to get downtown without using Macleod:
Urban Outdoorsman
Active Member
I think Stoney will make a big impact at BowTrail and Sarcee. But that being said I hate that intersection more than perhaps any other in the city. It frequently takes me 15+minutes to turn from Bow Trail east onto Sarcee north. At some point the city really ought to put in interchange there, it's just wayyy to bad as is.
MichaelS
Senior Member
There is still a future phase of Crestmont. Not huge, but significant compared to the existing community. Qualico already has approval for the commercial portion adjacent to Old Banff Coach Road, on the County side of their land holdings:
Mountain Man
Senior Member
What's the timeline on the Stoney Tr extension south of 16Ave? They had streetlights on there when I came back from snowboarding the other day, so it looks close!
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October
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From what I heard the hill, interchange, and bridge over the bow are far ahead than the back part from OBCR to Glenmore. I think opening is either 2023 or 24.
MichaelS
Senior Member
They are a total of 3 seperate projects I think. Highway 8 to OBCR is one, OBCR to the River is 2, and the bridge is a 3rd. Not sure though, been a little while since I was looking at it closely. I have noticed though that there is a lift of pavement already going up the hill, and to hear there are streetlights already, damn. I don't know how far behind the bridge structures are, but if they could get the OBCR to 16th Ave portion done and open sooner, that would be amazing.
Mountain Man
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After many years of temporary lanes and closures on 16th, even opening the first part to OBCR would be huge!
https://www.alberta.ca/west-calgary-ring-road.aspx Website says 2024, so I guess it will all open at once, not be phased any further.
https://www.alberta.ca/west-calgary-ring-road.aspx Website says 2024, so I guess it will all open at once, not be phased any further.
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DougB
Senior Member
Wow. Crestmont still does have plenty of land to grow
MichaelS
Senior Member
Here is the comercial/county side of Qualico's Crestmont lands that have approval I think:
