City of Calgary seeking feedback on extending Memorial Drive to eastern city limits
Global News
The proposal would see Memorial Drive extended from the existing communities of Abbeydale and Applewood Park, over Stoney Trail to Calgary's east city limits at 116 Street E.
The City of Calgary is exploring an extension of Memorial Drive to help accommodate new communities being developed on the city’s eastern edge. But residents are concerned an extension would eliminate green space.
The extension of the east-west thoroughfare was approved by the previous council as part of area planning for the new community of Belvedere, however the project has not been funded.
The proposed project would extend Memorial Drive from the existing communities of Abbeydale and Applewood Park to the east city limits at 116 Street E.
It would include a new crossing of the CN Rail line and an east-west overpass across Stoney Trail, without on or off ramps from Stoney Trail.
“While the plan is approved by council, the details about the configuration, lanes, sidewalks, pathways and trees accommodation is to be discussed through this functional planning study,” City of Calgary project manager Zoran Carkic told Global News.
According to Carkic, the current public engagement process will help determine how the roadway will cross through the neighbourhood, and over the CN Rail tracks, Rotary Mattamy Greenway and Stoney Trail.
The online survey will be open until August 9.
But some residents in the area aren’t keen on the plan to extend the roadway past their homes.
