OCTOBER 2013
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The City of Calgary’s Airport
Trail Tunnel Project has been in
the works since the late 1990s.
With the expediting of the
Calgary Airport Authority’s
Runway Development Project,
the associated 620-metre tun-
nel is now on schedule to be
completed in May 2014. The
tunnel will run under the Air-
port Authority’s new runway
and accommodate six lanes of
traffic. It is approximately 36
metres wide. The tunnel will
extend Airport Trail from Bar-
low Trail to 36 Street N.E. The
$295 million budget for the
tunnel is being funded jointly
by The City of Calgary and the
Government of Alberta’s Mu-
nicipal Sustainability Initia-
