$170M Glenmore Tr. project complete

[PGTze]

http://www.cbc.ca/canada/calgary/sto...-causeway.html

Construction has wrapped up on the Glenmore Causeway project.

As of Thursday morning, all lanes were open on Glenmore Trail from Macleod Trail to Crowchild Trail and the speed limit was back to 80 km/h.

An estimated 140,000 commuters use the route daily. It is also an east-west trucking route.

Construction on Glenmore Trail between Crowchild Trail and 14 Street S.W. began in 2005. At a cost of $170 million, the city increased the number of lanes, as well as built two interchanges, two pedestrian bridges and a wider bridge over the Glenmore Reservoir.

According to the city, Calgary's largest infrastructure project was completed on time and on budget.

Construction is still underway to widen Glenmore Trail from four to six lanes between Deerfoot Trail and 18 Street S.E., as well as to twin the Graves Bridge over the Bow River.

Was driving home on it at about 12:15am and to my shock and amazement all signs are finally back up to 80km/h. Even though it was completed on time it's still been a long time coming.

[benyl]

'bout f'n time. lol

[LilDrunkenSmurf]

Yay!!

[sxtothe240]

sure felt alot longer than 3 years...jesus

[Eleanor]

Now, if retards wouldn't get into accidents on the SB Crow -> EB Glenmore ramp in rush hour in the morning......

Although this is good news, it's still a retarded design. Lanes appearing and disappearing all the fucking time

[7thgenvic]

any guesses on the next horrible bottle neck! hah

[Heff]

Calfrobe bridge, deerfoot trail.

[KyleTA]

Originally posted by 7thgenvic
any guesses on the next horrible bottle neck! hah

glenmore and 37th st is still a shit show for the most part

[blownz]

Awesome! I don't even live there and I get pissed every time I have to deal with it.

[kenny]

Originally posted by 7thgenvic
any guesses on the next horrible bottle neck! hah

Everywhere the city is pushing density, aka "Transit Oriented Development".

Heritage and Macleod Trail will be a shitshow once the condos and other buildings are complete there.

[mo_money2supe]

Originally posted by 7thgenvic
any guesses on the next horrible bottle neck! hah

Originally posted by KyleTA
glenmore and 37th st is still a shit show for the most part

Glenmore at Shepherd AND at Barlow. Morning / afternoon rush hours are worse than Glenmore & 37th St, especially with the heavy trucks. At any other time (non-peak times), Glenmore & 37th takes the heat though.

[Alterac]

how about anywhere crowchild and traffic lights.. lol

Kensington, 5th, 24th, McMahon.. etc.

I think they need to close 5th, put in a clover at kensington, close the crowchild mcmahon, and add better access from university drive.

Along with a Clover for Crowchild University.

[Destinova403]

Originally posted by 7thgenvic
any guesses on the next horrible bottle neck! hah

anywhere on 16th...

[sputnik]

The bridge on 22X that goes over Macleod Trail

[benyl]

Anywhere on country hills BLVD.

I don't know why the fuck they added all that capacity to eastbound Crowchild when it all bottle necks at the University/McMahon cluster fuck. so dumb.

[Alterac]

Anywhere on 36th street, especially in the SE section, Malborough etc... TNT drivers

[dimi]

Its such a dumb fucking design. 2x more lights everywhere

[01RedDX]

.

[Heff]

For sheer easing of volume traffic:

Calfrobe Bridge
22x bridge over McLeod
Glenmore->37 st. SE
John Laurie interchanges.

[Alterac]

Oh yea,

John Laurie and Shaganapi needs some loving badly.

Along with all of McKnight from deerfoot to John Laurie.


There is no good Deerfoot <-> Crowchild connector...