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Construction headaches on Crowchild Trail could continue into the new year while more upgrade work is completed on the bridge over the Bow River over the next few months.

The city had hoped to wrap up the $87-million upgrade project on Crowchild Trail this fall. A number of key sections will be complete in the next few weeks, but more construction remains to be done on the bridge and on the roadway south of the river.

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“We’re still very busy out there, we’ve got a lot of work to do right through to the end of this year, with anything we can’t get to this year spilling over to 2020,” said Jeff Baird, a senior transportation engineer with the City of Calgary.

An average of around 107,000 vehicles travel on Crowchild Trail each day. Work to upgrade the massive north-south connector began in 2017.

One of the major milestones for the project is finally complete, with traffic now merging onto northbound Crowchild Trail from newly reconfigured Bow Trail and 10 Avenue S.W. ramps in a dedicated, right-hand lane.