Southwest Calgary residents excited over expected ring road opening
Global News
The fully completed southwest ring road, at a cost of $1.4 billion, will be 31 kilometers long and will connect Highway 8 with Macleod Trail.
The anticipated opening of the final stretch of the southwest ring road has residents elated after years of construction.
The provincial government is set to make an announcement on the roadway on Saturday afternoon, which is expected to be the opening of the stretch between Fish Creek Boulevard and Hwy 22x.
“This is really going to change the traffic patterns considerably as soon as this opens, which is imminent,” Ward 13 city councillor Diane Colley-Urquhart said.
The announcement comes after the 12 kilometers of roadway named Tsuut’ina Trail, between Sarcee Trail and Fish Creek Boulevard, opened in October 2020.
The fully completed roadway, which cost $1.4 billion, will be 31 kilometers long and will connect Highway 8 with Macleod Trail.
According to project officials, it’s anticipated the highway will see between 80,000 and 100,000 vehicles per day over the next 30 years.
“It’s exciting for the city, it’s almost overdue,” regular ring road user Mark Payne told Global News. “I spend as much time with my job in Edmonton as I do in Calgary and I find the fact they have a ring road in Edmonton is certainly a lot easier to get around, saves you on gas, saves you on time.”
The partial re-opening of the roadway has come with challenges, and traffic headaches for communities along the route.
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