Posted Dec 20, 2023, 5:14 PM
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Location: Toronto
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Why would Grande Prairie or Red Deer need a ring road?
In both cases, they already have a freeway bypassing them in the dominant direction of through travel -east-west for GP, north-south for Red Deer.
Ring roads are very expensive because they're very lengthy and add a lot of trip distance. Let's say you're trying to get to the "other side" of a circle of a 10 km diameter. If you go through the centre, you travel 10 km. If you go halfway around the circumference, you have to travel 15.7 km to get to the same spot. In a relatively small city with free flowing traffic, is this extra 50% in distance made up for in any time savings?
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