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I’m not entirely sure why this is news! It’s only a 1 km stretch of road! Yes I get that it closes a gap in the road, but there’s a lot of work yet to get this entire east/west road up to snuff!
New major road expansion in NW Calgary to open next week
The City of Calgary says an expansion to 144 Avenue NW is complete and open to regular traffic starting Monday.calgary.citynews.ca
It’s a big 1km section though. It connects the gravel pits and communities on its western end with those in other parts of North Calgary. Before you had to head south to Stoney tr to get there. Now all the construction traffic can use 144 right across the north part of calgary. From 11st NE all the way to 85st NW and beyond uninterrupted. There are at least a 1/2 dozen new communities along the stretch that rely on it.
Curious how this changes the pattern of people coming and going from Stampede Park...
Ontario has the "Onroute" stops every 70-100km along the major highways (Between Windsor, Montreal, and a couple on the 400 north). Typically there is one on both sides of the highway so that they don't need to build a major intersection, just a simple merge lane.
These are great but I wonder how much more traffic is on the 401 than Hwy 1. The OnRoute is mainly on the stretch of highway between Windsor and Montreal which is a major economic corridor and has significant traffic everyday. I also find most of the time going to the mountains, Canmore is about where I'd like to take a break
Yes and yes, but the road improvements were always known to be short term.
I remember a few years ago a minister had a mandate of looking into renewing the government's rest areas, and they were exploring partnering with operators to upgrade and supplement. As with all things, it is much harder to do than announce, and haven't heard of anything since. Hard to do without acquiring more land, or chopping down trees. To then turn around and lease the land to a private operator, that can result in significant pushback from the original landowners.
here is the project webpage, with a list of locations:
Commercial safety rest areas
Commercial safety rest areas can improve safety on Alberta highways.www.alberta.ca
It’s been crickets about this project for the past two years. Doesn’t seem to be a priority for a Dictator….errr I mean Premier, who would rather waste time poking her nose, where it clearly doesn’t or shouldn’t belong, into LGBTQ issues, and other issues of concern (for her only, nobody else seems to care very much). Okay, sorry, rant over!I remember a few years ago a minister had a mandate of looking into renewing the government's rest areas, and they were exploring partnering with operators to upgrade and supplement. As with all things, it is much harder to do than announce, and haven't heard of anything since. Hard to do without acquiring more land, or chopping down trees. To then turn around and lease the land to a private operator, that can result in significant pushback from the original landowners.
here is the project webpage, with a list of locations:
Commercial safety rest areas
Commercial safety rest areas can improve safety on Alberta highways.
It's not just seton, passed by the new developments north of Sage Hill and those roads are massive, some even have medians on a supposedly "residential" street. On a slightly different note, why do so many people like to park on the street when they all clearly have a garage? I can't imagine parallel parking in front is really saving you that much time compared to the garage.
