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Originally Posted by Dengler Avenue
Here’s the overarching question though:
Having been used to major highways with at-grade crossings, intersections, traffic lights and immediate property access for 50 years, will Manitobans be able to embrace controlled-access freeways all of a sudden?
I’m asking this because I’m already sensing resistance coming when time comes to address the entire Perimeter Highway (plus Headingrley Bypass), TCH throughout the province, Highway 75 (Lord Selkirk Highway), possibly Highway 59 N and probably even Yellowhead Highway.
Are you people following??
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If the province goes ahead and makes 100/101 controlled access (it'll be a while before it happens with the others), then what choice will people have?
Until recently, ad hoc access points were maintained due to political pressure and it wasn't a huge deal because the highways weren't all that busy. But when you have tens of thousands a car a day on some of these stretches of road now, you're going to have engineers at Manitoba Infrastructure putting their foot down to MLAs and telling them flat out no when they request continued access for some local yahoo who wrote them an e-mail.