The Deerfoot Trail Study has been broken down into three sections- North, Central and South. These are the long-term options of the South section:

  • Glenmore Trail S.E.
  • Anderson Road / Bow Bottom Trail / Southland Drive S.E. (three concepts)

As part of our technical analysis we are using the Multiple Account Evaluation (M.A.E.) with four main factors: financial, environmental, socio-community, and customer service. The questions below will help us understand how you feel each of our proposed concepts stand up to these criteria. Public input will be only one factor in how we assess these preliminary concepts.

SOUTH DEERFOOT CONCEPT PLANS

Glenmore Trail

Anderson Road / Bow Bottom Trail / Southland Drive S.E.


1) Glenmore Trail S.E. - One Preliminary Concept

View the following image and answer the questions below for Glenmore Trail.

Benefits

Trade-offs

  • Reconfigured interchange at Blackfoot Trail reduces weaving around Deerfoot Trail and Glenmore Trail.
  • Reconfigured interchange at Glenmore Trail provides for all movements and removes the use of Heritage Meadows Road to perform northbound to westbound movement.
  • Reduces congestion on Deerfoot Trail from northbound Heritage Meadows Road off-ramp.
  • Potential impacts to commercial/industrial properties.
  • New design accommodates all the movements at the Glenmore Trail and Deerfoot Trail interchange and warrants removal of the right-in / right-out access on Glenmore Trail in both directions.
  • High costs due to constructing new ramps.
1) Considering the different evaluation factors, what kind of impacts do you think the preliminary concept for Glenmore Trail S.E. might have?
Strongly Positive Impact
Positive Impact
No Impact / Neutral
Negative Impact
Strongly Negative Impact
I don’t know
a) Environmental – land, water, wildlife
b) Environmental – air and emissions
c) Customer Service – Improved access to/from Deerfoot Trail and communities
d) Customer Service – road safety
e) Socio-community – impacts to property and special areas
f) Socio-community – visual or noise impacts
2) For Glenmore Trail S.E. - How much do you feel the construction cost is a factor when considering changes at this intersection?

Please choose one.

3) At Glenmore Trail S.E. - How important is to you to improve access across Deerfoot Trail for all road users?

Please choose one.

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Please continue to answer the questions below for Anderson / Bow Bottom / Southland S.E.


2) Anderson / Bow Bottom / Southland - Three Concepts

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Benefits of concept one

Trade-offs of concept one

  • Reduces weaving along Deerfoot Trail by adding a collector distributor (CD) lane in each direction between Southland Drive S.E. and Anderson Road / Bow Bottom Trail S.E. This separates the highway through movements from the interchange movements at the entrance and exit ramps.
  • Provides more capacity with an additional lane in each direction across the Bow River and with the CD lanes north of Southland Drive.
  • East / west traffic continues to use the Deerfoot Trail corridor via the CD lanes north of Anderson Road/ Bow Bottom Trail S.E. interchange while the core lanes are primarily reserved for north/south traffic.
  • Improves the diverging operations along northbound Deerfoot Trail by enlarging the loop ramp for Anderson Road / Bow Bottom Trail S.E.
  • Potential impacts to properties including Sue Higgins Park, Maple Ridge Golf Course and private property.
  • Moderate costs due to constructing new overpasses for basket weave structures and separating the exit and entrance ramps between Anderson Road / Bow Bottom Trail S.E. and Southland Drive S.E. interchanges.

Benefits of concept two

Trade-offs of concept two

  • Reduces weaving along Deerfoot Trail by adding a collector distributor (CD) lane between Southland Drive S.E. and Anderson Road/Bow Bottom Trail S.E., separating the highway through movements from the interchange movements at the entrance and exit ramps.
  • Provides additional highway capacity, including across the Bow River, with the two CD lanes in each direction starting at Barlow Trail.
  • Provides improved traffic operations along Deerfoot Trail as the CD lanes accommodate east/west local trips separately from the north/south trips that would primarily use the core travel lanes.
  • Improves the diverging operations along northbound Deerfoot Trail by enlarging the loop ramp for Anderson Road / Bow Bottom Trail S.E.
  • Provides additional distance northbound to change lanes by reconfiguring the ramps at Southland Drive.
  • Provides easier connection between Blackfoot Trail and Southland Drive by reconfiguring intersection.
  • Potential impacts to properties including Sue Higgins Park and private property.
  • Moderate to high costs, primarily associated with the new structures across the Bow River and through the Anderson Road / Bow Bottom Trail S.E. interchange to accommodate the northbound and southbound CD lanes.

Benefits of concept three

Trade-offs of concept three

  • Reduces weaving along Deerfoot Trail by adding collector distributor (CD) lanes in each direction between Southland Drive S.E. and Anderson Road / Bow Bottom Trail S.E., separating the highway through movements from the interchange movements at the entrance and exit ramps.
  • Provides additional highway capacity, including across the Bow River with the two CD lanes in each direction starting at Barlow Trail.
  • Provides improved traffic operations along Deerfoot Trail as the CD lanes accommodate east/west local trips separately from the north/south trips that would primarily travel in the core lanes.
  • Provides direct access between Blackfoot Trail and Deerfoot Trail.
  • Increases capacity and improves traffic operations by replacing existing loop ramp with directional ramp at Deerfoot Trail and Anderson Road.
  • Potential impacts to properties including Sue Higgins Park, Maple Ridge Golf Course and private property.
  • High costs due to constructing new access between Deerfoot Trail and Blackfoot Trail, new bridges across the Bow River to accommodate the CD lanes and reconfiguring the Anderson Road / Bow Bottom Trail S.E. interchange.
1) Considering the different evaluation factors, what kind of impacts do you think the three preliminary concepts for Anderson / Bow Bottom / Southland S.E. might have?
Strongly Positive Impact
Positive Impact
No Impact / Neutral
Negative Impact
Strongly Negative Impact
I don’t know
a) Environmental – land, water, wildlife (Concept 1)
a) Environmental – land, water, wildlife (Concept 2)
a) Environmental – land, water, wildlife (Concept 3)
b) Environmental – air and emissions (Concept 1)
b) Environmental – air and emissions (Concept 2)
b) Environmental – air and emissions (Concept 3)
c) Customer Service – Improved access to / Deerfoot Trail and communities (Concept 1)
c) Customer Service – Improved access to / Deerfoot Trail and communities (Concept 2)
c) Customer Service – Improved access to / Deerfoot Trail and communities (Concept 3)
d) Customer Service – road safety (Concept 1)
d) Customer Service – road safety (Concept 2)
d) Customer Service – road safety (Concept 3)
e) Socio-community – impacts to property and special areas (Concept 1)
e) Socio-community – impacts to property and special areas (Concept 2)
e) Socio-community – impacts to property and special areas (Concept 3)
f) Socio-community – visual or noise impacts (Concept 1)
f) Socio-community – visual or noise impacts (Concept 2)
f) Socio-community – visual or noise impacts (Concept 3)


Considering the descriptions of all the benefits and trade-offs and your answers to all three questions above, help us understand, overall which of the three concepts you feel would have the most positive impact to users of Deerfoot Trail. This is not a vote and public input will only be considered as one of many factors in making decisions about which concepts are feasible.


Please rank the concepts by dragging your Premliminary Concept Plan from the left column to the right column. Please order the column in order of most beneficial (top) to least (bottom).

  1. Preliminary Concept #1 #
  2. Preliminary Concept #2 #
  3. Preliminary Concept #3 #
3) Anderson / Bow Bottom / Southland S.E. - How much do you feel the construction cost is a factor when considering changes at this intersection?

Please choose one.

4) Anderson / Bow Bottom / Southland S.E. - How important is to you to improve access across Deerfoot Trail for all road users?

Please choose one.

Please explain your answers above or share your thoughts or questions about the proposed concepts and impacts for this interchange.

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