Quarry Park quandary
Re: “Council remains divided on transit,” Dec. 13.
I am a 19-year resident of Riverbend and was initially opposed to Quarry Park. That opposition might have been for the wrong reasons. The idea of a satellite mini city now makes sense. When 18th Street was opened to the Deerfoot, most of us saw that as another way out of our neighbourhood. Little did we expect it to become a shortcut from Deerfoot south to destinations unknown and to accommodate the folks working in Quarry Park.
I am from Montreal and was used to traffic jams all day long. Moving here in 1994 was, from a traffic perspective among others, a wonderful change. No more. Not only is there barely moving traffic on 18th every work day, but I suspect the air quality has likely been affected quite negatively in our area.
How is the city planning to accommodate the over 2,000 new Imperial Oil employees trying to get to work every morning as well as those who will work there in the future? I guess there will be, at some point, at least 5,000 people trying to get in and out of there every day. The size of a small town twice a day! Two ways in, two ways out!
Are we considering a bridge into Quarry Park from Southland? The offleash folks probably would oppose that. Perhaps we could have saved the money to do so by not funding Santiago Calatrava’s $25-million monument to bad welding. Some of us here are considering a petition to limit Quarry Park growth.
Richard L. Landry, Calgary