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    Default Calgary Airport Trail Tunnel Grand Opening



    The City of Calgary unveiled the Airport Tunnel, the first true tunnel in the city, to the public today by hosting a show and shine with car clubs around the city. Thousands made their way to the festivities, with huge lineups at the Westwinds C-Train station where anxious citizens waited to be packed into busses to shuttle them to the tunnelfs east entrance. Many of the local clubs were present, including ZR Auto and the Ferrari Club of Alberta. The cars lined the westbound lanes, giving a chance for Calgarians to get up close and personal with some amazing machinery.



    Several of our very own members had their cars out at the show today, including the awesome Ferrari F50, powered by an engine derived from a 90's era Formula One motor. With only 349 examples manufactured, it's a rare sight to see on Calgary roads.

    Read more here: http://www.beyond.ca/calgary-airport...ing/37147.html
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    Pretty cool to see a f40, f50 and enzo all at the same show in Calgary.

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    who's going blasting through that first thing tomorrow morning?
    Not me, but I may wander over that way later in the day.
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    Some very nice cars!

    Is the hood of that Merc sprayed with bedliner though
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    So which one of those is the bicycle lane?

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    the blog post mentioned speed sensors and cameras....these are permanent installs? purely out of curiosity of course

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    Yes perm install. I dunno if they'll be used for traffic enforcement but I'll bet it's evidence enough if u try to do a full throttle drag run.
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    I don't think there is red light cameras in the tunnel. We do the install for them and I havnt heard about them. I could be wrong but I've driven through a bunch already and have never seen one. Almost 100% sure there is nothing in the ground for sensors. Maybe the CPS has new cameras but I don't think so.

    But like I said I could be totally wrong.

    We put up lots of cameras but no speed, some are for counting others are vehicle detection. I don't know what the airport authority out up.

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    Originally posted by 4DoorGTZ
    So which one of those is the bicycle lane?
    Fail.

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    Will let you know about cameras shortly, I'm not sure how I got talked into waking up at this ungodly hour for this but there's a line up of cars behind us waiting to go in. We were first but someone decided they wanted to be first and went and parked after the lights with utility vehicles.

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    I believe a main concern for the airport authority was if a vehicle stopped/broke down in the tunnel. Maybe the speed sensors are for that purpose?

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    I was there at 5AM because we came back from doing a delivery, wanted to check it out but it wasn't even open yet. Some yahoo in a really loud white 350Z really wanted to go first.. roll eyes o_O. Went through and then back, then got to cut through the airport to get back to work lol.
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    Well drove through the tunnel. So not worth $300m.
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    This guy was pretty jazzed to go though.


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    I love how everyone just u turns cuz 36st is useless haha.
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    Originally posted by rx7_turbo2
    Some very nice cars!

    Is the hood of that Merc sprayed with bedliner though
    The hood of the Mercedes SL55 that ZR Auto brought is wrapped in a colour called shimmer black. It's the same texture as normal vinyl wrap.

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    I'm not worried about the speed cameras, but rather them bringing back the sound traps.

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    Originally posted by ndhal417
    This guy was pretty jazzed to go though.

    Jazzed up is literally the perfect description for this guy
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    Waste of money just so a bunch of rich people can drive their loud cars through it going vr000000m
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    So laughable - followed a guy late this morning who was driving a blue Chev Avalanche with an Illmotion sticker on the back window (AB BLM-7435) and he had to gas it through a section. Yupp, what we all yearn for - Chev Avalanche exhaust sounds in the tunnel and stock sounding at that.
    Will fuck off, again.

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