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Originally Posted by milomilo
Count me in with the people that doesn't see the need for the Airport Tunnel - it seems to connect nowhere to nowhere (even after the East side is built out). What's wrong with CHB?
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It costs even more than the cost of the tunnel to handle the future traffic on CHB.
The undeveloped area on the east side of the airport, and INSIDE the ring road is huge. Easily 50,000 more residents and thousands of jobs to come in the next 10-15 years in that area.
Trust me, even now, it's not a tunnel to nowhere. There will be quite a bit of traffic through it. Full? no, not for the time being, but lots of people will use it.
CHB is getting more traffic lights, there's something like 7-8 lights planned between Metis and Deerfoot. Meanwhile, eventually Airport Trail will have no lights in that stretch.
"Why do we need Anderson, when Southland would work just fine?" - that's approximately the same statement.