Monday, April 4, 2011
Home: Calgary, Alberta, Canada
Up at the airport yesterday to drop my friend off, I saw the newly-closed Barlow Trail.
The feds are expanding YYC, Calgary International Airport. This means building a runway where we now have a road, Barlow Trail. In fact it’s the main road for reaching the airport from anywhere east of Deerfoot Trail and north of Memorial Drive.
Barlow is a strange road because although there is a Barlow north of the river, and a Barlow south of the river (the Bow River, that is), and these two Barlows do line up with each other, they aren’t connected. Very confusing if you don’t know what you’re doing and you get on Barlow south of the river expecting to take it to the airport.
No worries now, though. Barlow is closed at its north end so you can’t use it to get to the airport at all.
Find another way and don’t trust your GPS. Revert to that good old-fashioned map thing.
jill