Transportation and Utility Corridor
Planning for the Calgary and Edmonton Ring Road started in the 1970s when the province developed Restricted Development Areas in a corridor of land then mostly outside the developed civic areas for future infrastructure including high speed ring road systems. This land is also known as the transportation and utility corridor (TUC) as land set aside for future road and utility purposes. Land acquisition started in 1974 and by the time the Ring Road projects were initiated had acquired 97% of the lands. Of note is the Calgary TUC which failed to include a TUC corridor in SW Calgary between Glenmore Trail and Highway 22X. The City of Calgary is bounded along 37 Street SW by the Tsuu Tina Nation. The developed areas of the City of Calgary had already reached 37 Street SW around the Glenmore Reservoir inhibiting the ability of the government to impose an RDA. The missing link in the TUC map created uncertainty in the future SW Ring Road network which to this day complicates completion of the SW Ring Road.
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Famous quotes containing the words utility and/or corridor:
“Moral sensibilities are nowadays at such cross-purposes that to one man a morality is proved by its utility, while to another its utility refutes it.”
—Friedrich Nietzsche (1844–1900)
“And now in one hour’s time I’ll be out there again. I’ll raise my eyes and look down that corridor four feet wide with ten lonely seconds to justify my whole existence.”
—Colin Welland (b. 1934)