The City of Calgary traffic engineers did not take into consideration any people outside our community accessing our community roads. Specifically the proposed Latter Day Saints temple directly servicing 18,000 members throughout the week, the Royal Victory Church expansion, the people who use our communities 3 church facilities at night, or the increase in traffic volume from Cochrane and NW Community residents accessing our communities proposed LRT station. Instead of all of these outside members directly accessing the church facilities one block up Rocky Ridge Road, these people will be accessing the churches and LRT from these 5 residential roads. These roads are in front of our community center, our playgrounds, our school zones, our baseball & soccer fields, our toboggan run, our bus stops and school bus stops, our walkways, pathways and driveways.
This increase in traffic on these residential roads puts all pedestrians, drivers and our children at an increase risk of getting hurt. Please review the proposed traffic volume statistical data sheet, approved by the City of Calgary.
-- Lauree Phillips
Hopefully they finish Country Hills Boulevard all the way to 12 Mile Coulee soon. That would help immensely. Perhaps the city should reconsider allowing those churches to be built. How many churches does this neighborhood need anyway?
ReplyDeleteWith all due respect to those that researched road closures, etc. before purchasing...
ReplyDeletewhen we began the search for a community - at the time RRR has been built as permanent road - there have not been signs (until the last few months) that this is a temporary road. Especially since most builders are not communicating this information - the overwhelming majority of people would not know that it would be closing even with Stoney off ramp (which could have been designed to be raised until past RRR & the RR/Tuscany LRT).
Those who have seen the Dalhousie LRT extension which had Brisbois / 40th underpasses & connectors created... would believe it is possible to create similar access & exit points for RRR to connect to Crowchild. For planners & others to say it isn't possible due to the plans in place - in my opinion is a cop out for very poor design & fore thought.
In regards to LRT park N Ride - why would any of us want to pay for parking in our own community (since this is supposedly parking for RR/RO & Tuscany only). The entire planning which removes access to a community which has had this expectation & use since the mid 1990's is unbelievable to me that government officials would think this would be ok.
Anyway again my 2 cents, which unfortunately we've all known since the original decision to close RRR by thoe in government - it would never be reversed becaue then it would be admitting there are flaw in the work previously done & currently in progress. Intead those of us who live in the community will have to endure with these errors made by planners of thee various projects.