^ You are absolutely right. This is what happens when politicians do the planning. Most cities have long-range,
detailed transportation plans that indicate what will be built and when. The best we get are vague plans with few if any specifics, and even that gets changed because Coun. Wyatt doesn't like this or Coun. Fielding wants that. It's all ad hoc.
The province isn't much better... check out the MIT planning page:
http://www.gov.mb.ca/mit/tspd/index.html . There's a 2007 road to Nunavut study, a new overhead sign at the Emerson border corssing, some northern/remote road studies, and that's pretty much it. Nothing about the major highways. Then there's CentrePort Canada Way...how did that get elevated over all the other priorities in the Winnipeg region? It's so random.
I am not a supporter of freeways by any stretch, but part of that is because there is so much that could be done to improve traffic in this city without resorting to costly freeway construction. For instance, with its traffic count, how can it be that Lagimodiere is still only 2 lanes each way, the same way that it was 40 years ago when there were hundreds of thousands fewer cars in this city? It should be 3 lanes each way, as should Bishop Grandin. It's things like that which would improve traffic flow.