[husky]

Off topic, but I noticed that Calgary Trail didn't transition to 103 / 104 St (that eventually became one way streets) until 51 Ave. It would have been nice if city forefathers would have reserved a ROW to allow free flow up to Whitemud Drive. I don't know if it was too late in 1975, but c'est la vie.

91 Street was the reserved ROW.

 

[The_Cat]

There was a lot of opposition to the METS plan at the time.

 

[SarcasticMarmot]

There was a lot of opposition to the METS plan at the time.

Thank God for that. The original plan was for 91st to be the freeway entrance to the city, they were then gonna bulldoze Mill Creek Ravine to make it a straight shot into downtown. It's why 91st is so wide and then dead ends at the ravine. All the ROWs are along there. Horrific.

 

[MuzikMachine]

I thought the METS plan might have been dead (or on life support) by the mid 70s. Isn't Yellowhead Trail a 'Plan B' of METS? There probably wouldn't have been the need for the current Yellowhead Trail alignment had it followed the MacKinnon Ravine, James McDonald Bridge, etc.

Assuming Hwy 2 still follows its current alignment via Whitemud Drive, taking advantage of the 91 St ROW to the south might have been better than Gateway Blvd/Calgary Trail.

IIRC, METS had a trident interchange at the south end where 91 St, Calgary Trail, and 111 St would converge.

 

[The_Cat]

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The used car lot appears to be cleared out as I drove by yesterday.

I wonder if this will be used as a staging area for construction.

 

[MacLac]

Drove the Head for the first time in years and boy oh boy is that expansion a bigger project in person than on paper…..I was just saying to myself, “why haven’t they started to string beams for the 127th deck yet”…..seems that they just poured the abutments not too long ago…..

 

[The_Cat]

The girders will be exciting.

 

[retiredfire]

127 st looking west

 

[Offworld]

Drove the Head for the first time in years and boy oh boy is that expansion a bigger project in person than on paper…..I was just saying to myself, “why haven’t they started to string beams for the 127th deck yet”…..seems that they just poured the abutments not too long ago…..

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Are we not going to talk about the elephant in the room?

3G? I didn't know that was still a thing.

 

[The_Cat]

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127 st looking west

That’s a hell of a lot of earth to haul out. Well done.

 

[The_Cat]

127 Street:

 

[The_Cat]

Looks like some cars were parked at the lot at 66 Street and Yellowhead.

 

[trevorhayden]

That 1975 map explains why 118 Avenue and 111 Avenue are now so unnecessarily wide!

Why is it that Yellowhead gets 80k vehicles per day while JUST THE CAPITAL LINE gets 110k passengers per day (therefore the whole LRT network gets much more than Yellowhead), but funds are prioritized for highways over transit?

 

[The_Cat]

111 and 118 Avenue used to be the main routes out of Edmonton, before the Yellowhead Trail.

 

[trevorhayden]

Though, not anymore. Both need major road diets.