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Originally Posted by CoryB
A sad reality of those Perimeter plans is the province wants to down grade Portage (HWY 1) and the Perimeter to a diamond as a cost savings measure.
By making Portage into a diamond the existing bridge decking can be slightly reworked to handle six lanes of through traffic by repurposing the merge/exit lane into a through lane. If they kept it as-is there would be major reworking needed to accommodate six through lanes.
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I don't mind it. To me, interchanges - clover leaf or system should be reserved for Hwy to Hwy. If the truck traffic comes off because of the Bypasses (i know, they may never be built) it will only handle commuter traffic.
Most of the major US cities that I have been to driving all generally use some form of diamonds for road access to freeway. Toronto, Minneapolis, Denver, Chicago, Miami, San Fransisco, etc, etc