The intersection of Sarcee Trail and 34 Avenue NW is now a traffic circle.  It used to be a T junction.
Michel Bourque says he’s been trying for more than 18 months to get the city to install a concrete barrier to protect his and his neighbors’ homes from becoming a crash site.
“All we want is a barricade to stop a car from going off the road,” he said.
“I think it’s fair enough to keep the cars on the road (as) we’re not even asking for much.  It won’t even look as good, it will look worse, but we want everything.”

The intersection of Sarcee Trail and 34 Avenue NW is now a traffic circle. It used to be a T intersection. Burke says that when he bought his house five years ago, the developer promised a bike lane and walking path in front of his house, creating space between it and the street. Those plans appear to have been thwarted, with the circulation cycle closing in on its ownership. Burke says he sees drivers speeding around the circle. “We have people squealing tires all day, especially at night, and if someone loses control, there’s no room for error here,” he said. “If someone leaves the road, which we’ve seen in the past at lower speeds, it goes through our units and it can be bad.” Bourque says he saw delivery trucks parked on the sidewalk in front of their home. His neighbor Eve Dejeet says she fears the worst possible outcome. “My daughter sleeps in the downstairs room and my biggest fear (is) that one day I wake up in the middle of the night with a car in there with a sleeping child.” The city did install flexible, reflective yellow plastic barriers that residents believe won’t stop a vehicle from entering their front yards if it does. The intersection of Sarcee Trail and 34 Avenue NW is now a traffic circle. It used to be a T intersection. Burke found orange bollards and placed them in the traffic circle to deter drivers from speeding. Ward 1 Councilwoman Sonya Sharp says she has heard concerns and will work with city staff. “We have already made some changes,” she said in a statement. “In the near future, we will be implementing speed limit reductions, adding more signage and working with the Calgary Police Service on further improvements.” Tony Churchill, mobility safety co-ordinator with the City of Calgary, says the permanent signage is set to be completed next week. “As far as I know, there are no immediate plans for other mitigating factors,” Churchill said. “We’ll be watching it closely and looking at it, but we expect that compared to a conventional T-junction, a roundabout will operate much safer and probably less likely that vehicles will go off the road at a roundabout, as they won’t go so far off the road because they will generally go at lower speeds.”