Road Trip...

I took a road trip today to check out the Anthony Henday extension that opened today from Lessard Drive (45 Ave) to Terwillegar Drive. Seeing that since the summer, we've basically tried to avoid the Whitemud/Calgary Trail and Calgary Trail/23 Ave intersections (plus Calgary Trail itself) by turning south on Terwillegar off Whitemud, continuing south via 156/170 Streets to Ellerslie Road and taking Ellerslie out to the QE2 (and back north again if we're going to South Edmonton Common, heaven forbid) - this is great news that they got the extension (and new bridge across the North Saskatchewan River) open ahead of time.

And after driving it, all I can say is... sweet. Four minutes from Terwillegar to Lessard Drive (where I had to stop at the light), 8 minutes total from Terwillegar back home (compared to at least 20 minutes when we had to go all the way around and across Quesnell). You can see where the freeway and bridge are by looking at this Google satellite map.

Interesting how the 2 cars in front of me and the one behind (and probably more) did exactly what I did - when we reached the end at Terwillegar, we turned north over the interchange and then went right back onto Henday to go back to where we came from...