September GE5 update

Glenmore construction on track
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POSTED AT 4:50 PM Thursday, September 28
One of the city's biggest road construction projects is still a year away from completion but is on time and on budget according to Mayor Dave Bronconnier.
Parts of the Glenmore Trail corridor projects (GE5), which include Glenmore Trail, Elbow Drive, and the 5th Street interchange, are wrapping up with the Elbow Drive bridge set to reopen for traffic this weekend.
The bridge was once at the centre of attention when Ward 11 Ald. Barry Erskine had to convince council to spend an additional $12 million on it.
"What was going to go in there would have been an absolute disaster, it would have backed up traffic," says Erskine, "this is a functional interchange, I'll never second guess getting the dollars to make this work."
As for the rest of the GE5 projects, the mayor announced that construction on Glenmore Trail, between Macleod Trail and 14th Street S.W., should be completed by the spring.
After that, construction will begin on the section of Glenmore between 14th Street and 37th Street S.W.
Officials with transportation infrastructure says bridges will eventually be built across the causeway and by the end of 2007, Glenmore Trail will see free flow traffic from 37th Street to Ogden Road S.E.
The completion of the GE5 projects will cost $110 million and $59 million is being spent on reconstructing the causeway over the reservoir.