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Yellowhead Trail Upgrades

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PSA - Fort Road reopens after Yellowhead Trail Conversion work

Fort Road reopens after Yellowhead Trail Conversion work August 14, 2014 Fort Road, between 66 Street and Yellowhead Trail, is now open to full capacity. This marks a major step forward in the Yello
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What's that building under construction? That new entertainment concept with go-karts and such.....?
 
If what I read on the Yellowhead Trail freeway conversion is still accurate, it's about a $1B project and Edmonton is paying about $500 million (the other half split between feds/prov - $242million each).

Contrast that with Calgary's current Deerfoot Trail project at $615 million - and their city is paying $0. The province is covering it all. No wonder that city has money for downtown building incentives and all their other mega projects.

The province took over all costs for maintenance and future upgrades of Deerfoot in 2000 - a nice gift from Premier Ralph Klein that took those costs out of the hands of Calgary's municipal government. No luck with such a designation for Yellowhead Trail or Whitemud Drive still to this day.

Deerfoot wasn't a freeway yet in 2000 when the province took over, but with upgrades became one in 2005. For 20 plus years, Calgary hasn't had to pay for it's maintenance costs and snow removal etc while Edmonton has for Yellowhead/Whitemud - adding up to 100s of millions more in funding for Calgary versus Edmonton. So not only are we paying $500 million for Yellowhead versus $0 by Calgary for Deerfoot, we've paid $100milllions more in annual costs.

In 2016, the NDP began the process of trying to offload Deerfoot back to Calgary for ownership. However, that never happened and then there was a government change.

Edmonton is not being treated fairly. Huge cost.

 
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Gronk! said:
Packingtown Park, according to Google Maps.
Let's see what they plan to do with this park.
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It's a nice little walk thru park that is a tribute to the former meat packing district,

They used crushed rubber tires with a concrete pathway zig/zaging between little displays with photo's and descriptive plaques.

Walkway is equipped with night time lighting along the pathway too.

Walking or biking access along fort road and the pathway beside the LRT tracks BUT don't walk thru the ETS parking lot. If you are driving, no parking, although I've never had a problem parking close to it.

Here's a few pics from May of 2022 (there are many more, and please excuse the quick and sloppy editing job)

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Habibfazil said:
It's a nice little walk thru park that is a tribute to the former meat packing district,

They used crushed rubber tires with a concrete pathway zig/zaging between little displays with photo's and descriptive plaques.

Walkway is equipped with night time lighting along the pathway too.

Walking or biking access along fort road and the pathway beside the LRT tracks BUT don't walk thru the ETS parking lot. If you are driving, no parking, although I've never had a problem parking close to it.

Here's a few pics from May of 2022 (there are many more, and please excuse the quick and sloppy editing job)

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Grow some grass, plant some trees and shrubs and call it a day.
 
Perhaps the rubber could be painted green to give it the look of grass or if the rubber is fastened to the ground, some local artists could do up a mosaic. Regardless though, the eyesore is gone.
 
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