EDMONTON – Planners should consider removing service lanes and boulevards when they look at widening congested 75th Street to six lanes, Coun. Bryan Anderson says.
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Councillor wants to scrap one-way avenues in the Beltline
Community and business leaders in the Beltline like their rookie councillor’s direction on turning 11th and 12th avenues into two-way streets.
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Funding set for 17th Street upgrade study
Strathcona County council has OK’d the distribution of funds for a functional planning study to be completed in partnership with the City of Edmonton for upgrades to 17th Street.
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Realignment route for 127 Street set beside Riverlot
On the books for years, Sturgeon County recently settled on a specific route for the realignment of 127 Street.
The future road, which currently dead-ends north of Edmonton, is supposed to hook into the Anthony Henday and connect to Highway 2 north of St. Albert.
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Portion of Centre Avenue set to debut next month
The Centre Avenue connector has been a subject of many questions since the start of its cleanup.
When is it going to be done?
When will the road open?
What stores are we going to get?
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Paving projects get green light from Town Council
There will be some smoothing-over in the town of Peace River after $2.5 million was budgeted for road projects as part of the Town’s 2013 capital budget.
Eleven specific paving projects were approved by council at its May 6 meeting at the recommendation of the engineering department. These projects will entail overlaying asphalt to the tune of $2 million and are all expected to be completed by the end of summer.
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Flexibility key in planning, revitalizing Edmonton streets, new guidelines reveal
EDMONTON – John Collier hopes Edmonton’s new Complete Streets Guidelines will mean a little more flexibility when traffic engineers talk with residents.
His community of Windsor Park lost several sidewalk wheelchair ramps during its recent neighbourhood revitalization program. He said because engineering guidelines from the city’s transportation department were so rigid, the ramps were eliminated because they didn’t fit the standards, even though the community using them wanted them maintained.
Collier found the whole experience “a bit of a nightmare.”
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