Page 4 - City of Calgary’s Crowchild Trail Upgrades Project

"We needed to rearrange some of the on-and-off Municipal Government, grants and accumulative

ramps to improve the flow in the area. It's been transportation levies.
one of the notorious problem spots in terms of

Calgary traffic for a number of decades," says Jeff "We improved the traffic flow in the area and

Baird, Senior Transportation Engineer at The City made it easier for the movement of goods and
of Calgary, who played a critical role in bringing the commuters. We did so while leaving the bridges in

complex undertaking to fruition. "There aren't really service and reusing them in their entirety rather than

any alternatives in terms of people on the west completely demolishing them to build brand new
side of the city going north and south, to and from infrastructure," Baird says.

downtown."
The project consisted of rehabilitation measures
THE ADVANTAGES OF and widening multiple bridges, adding lanes and

REHABILITATION relocating ramps, which cost less than rebuilding

one bridge over The Bow River. Further, Baird and

This smoothly orchestrated project with the project team completed the project without
readily apparent benefits was funded through working in the river, which also cut down upgrade

a combination of funding received from The costs.

Alberta Provincial Government, The Calgary

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