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Originally Posted by Reignman
What do the Americans know about roads and infrastructure? 
Bishop was built when....in the 60's sometime? Island Lakes are surrounding residential areas went up in the 80's. I was a kid in the 80's but the city had to know that Bishop was part of the planned inner ring road by then, no?
Fact of the matter is there is/was no proper long term planning in this city, and now we are left with lights upon lights along these arterials that were supposed to be expressways, which typically have short green cycles for the high traffic routes and of course are not even synchronized. And yet the city wants traffic to stay off residential roads as much as possible, when often it's quicker to take residential roads. For example, in rush hour, I find it much quicker to turn south on River off Bishop and take River/Nova Vista up to St. Annes, rather than deal with the ridiculous traffic backlog on Bishop eastbound between River and St. Annes. |
R'man, bishop was built in the 80's.
Back in the 60's, Metropolitan Corporation of Greater Winnipeg aka METRO was a citywide liaison body that covered streets and transit, parks and planning for the entire cities (7) at the time. It planned and developed roads like Route 90 and 20, things that would have never happened, finally did. In general, they were impartial and stepped on the toes of the Great City of Winnipeg many times, as well as, Steve Juba. ( I could spend hours talking about the Juba - Bernie Wolfe/Bonniecastle (Metro) wars of the 60's.) Most of the major roadways that are now in place were the brainchild of a 1967 report titled the Winnipeg Regional Streets and Roads Study produced under Bernie Wolfe et al. The Chief Peguis Trail was one of those mentioned in the study, only to be shunned by the new City of Winnipeg's Great Council of the 1970's (48 members). Proposed development from McPhillips-Henderson-Lage-Regent- Plessis Rd. south was about 40 - 50 Mil including bridges and overpasses. A fraction of today's cost of construction.
The City of Winnipeg is basically
cheap, not to be confused with cautious. Rather than build a street and have the area fill around it, they sit on there hands, dictate from above as to what and where you can build, dump some gravel on the prairie mud, stick up a four-way stop sign and call it done.
In Calgary, they will provide a full service package to an area, sewer, water, road, and utilities; work with developers to see the raw land through to final finish and all with harmony and understanding.
In 1956, Winnipeg was the 4th largest City in Canada, standing at the crossroads of this nation, straight and tall. Today, they call us WhinnerPeg. No guts, no glory! There's mice in the pantry and no one gives a shit. Do you?