I wanted to make you aware of some work that the City of Calgary is undertaking to determine the future of Crowchild Trail, which I know many of my constituents travel daily.
Transportation Planning has begun a long-term transportation Corridor Study for Crowchild Trail. The study will update the Crowchild Trail Corridor plan to align with the 2009 Calgary Transportation Plan (which is available here). The original Functional Planning Study for the Crowchild Corridor was completed in 1978.
Updating the Crowchild Corridor plan will includes a transportation corridor study of Crowchild Trail between 17th Ave SW and 24th Ave NW and a potential High Occupancy Vehicle (HOV) Corridor Study between Glenmore Trail and 16th Ave NW.
A major part of this work includes gathering input from Calgarians. A survey is available on the City of Calgary website, which I would encourage you to complete. It will be online until February 3rd, 2012. You can read more about the Crowchild Trail Corridor Study and complete the survey at http://www.calgary.ca/crowchild.
THIS ISSUE IS WELL OVER DUE,1 1/2 HR EVERY MORNING FROM SILVERSPRINGS TO BLACKFOOT TRAIL IS A LONG SET JUST BECAUSE IT IS BACKED UP FOR THE DOWN TOWN WORKERS AND THE REST OF US HAVE NO ESCAPE.NW OF CALGARY IS TRAPPED SO LETS GET ON IT—PUT IN THAT BIG OVERPASS WHICH CAN GET SPEEDS UP TO 80 KLMS INSTEAD OF IDLING AND BURNING A TANK FULL OF GAS.
Thanks Judy – please be sure to fill out the survey at http://www.calgary.ca/crowchild and include this. I believe that its outside of the specific study area for the project, but its good feedback none-the-less!
This review is more than overdue. Building overpasses way out in the suburbs at Stony Trail where the downtown traffic has thinned markedly prior to overpasses at Kensington Road, 5th NW and 24th NW does not make any sense. The bottlenecks are inner city not near the end of the commutes.
Brian,
I hope you are NOT in favor of this HOV or bicycle routing along Crowchid Trail. The accident rates are very high here and more constraint for traffic (as the route experiences growing traffic) is ludicrous. Do not place bicycle and pedestrian commuters along the same high volume corridors.
I live in Cedarbrae where a large percentage of your constituents are families with children . We need our vehicles to deal with kids throughout the days for school and extra cirricular activities. Hence you will see a high percentage of single cars. Transit is unreliable and ill-timed for family requirements and the communities were not built for it. The city created very successful family oriented communities like this in your Ward with renewable demographics of families. respect this style of successful community and support it with the proper free- flowing traffic families require – do not try to change them into something they are not.
My dream design for NS Crowchild would see the NS route as a flyover from Bow Tr to N of 5th Street, lowering continuous EW traffic to ground level at Memorial Dr, Kensington Rd, 5th Street.
Hi Mike – thanks for the feedback. As I understand it these are, at this point, just ideas that are being studied for feasibility and not necessarily concrete proposals. The outcome of this process – whatever it may be – will eventually come before council.
That said, thanks for your feedback on this. I will be sure to share it with Brian.
Please be sure to fill out the survey (its still live for a couple more days) so that your thoughts are taken into consideration in the study itself.