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If southwest Edmonton had a swear jar, it would be full and overflowing.

As neighbourhoods south of Anthony Henday Drive swell with new homes and garages, traffic is clogging up the thin north-south corridors to downtown. It jumped by 8,000 vehicles a day over two years at one frustrating pinch-point. But relief may be far down Edmonton’s list of priorities.

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“Everybody’s noticed congestion that is getting people yelling, ‘Come on, damn it. Move!’ — whether it’s Terwillegar Drive or Rabbit Hill Road,” said Coun. Bryan Anderson.

“There has to be some kind of a solution. There has to be a national infrastructure strategy,” he said. “Congestion that really pissed you off wasn’t occurring seven years ago.”

Nine of the top 10 fastest growing neighbourhoods are in the south. Windermere alone gained more than 5,000 people in the last five years, and many of those residents get to school and work along already congested north-south corridors.