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Originally Posted by Biff
The whole interchange is basically back to square one. They are looking to see where they can cut some costs to spend on the other possible interchanges at Birds Hill and Garvin (this is a good thing). I would much prefer to see a functional but downgraded 59/100 so that we could get 2 more grade separations at the other sites.
So to answer your question about layout, I really can't say because nothing is defined yet.
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Definitely a good thing. It would be great to have the fly-over. But if not, a cloverleaf with the extra bridges should do fine. Thanks for the info.
I'm thinking there should be some info coming out soon (at least over the summer), as the AT overpass was to have another open house in the new year. Time will tell.
Another question for you guys out there. Is Highway 59 inside the Perimeter under CoW jurisdiction, or is that MIT? It's a provincial highway. I know in most small towns, the highways and sometimes couple main streets are under MIT control. This could help with the Headmaster lights just south of the Perimeter and with the Reenders/Lag area. Or just in general..
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Originally Posted by esquire
The province released a plan a couple of years ago outlining upgrades to 59 from 101 to 44. I recall that it included provisions for those interchanges as well as turning part of the road to 6 lanes from the Perimeter to at least Garven Road, maybe farther. (That would make it the first significant stretch of 6-lane road in Manitoba.)
I wonder how MIT will downgrade the 59/101 interchange, though? The plan calls for a basic cloverleaf modified to incorporate the existing EB to NB ramp... eliminating the EB to NB ramp would let MIT build a standard cloverleaf with only 3 bridge structures, but there would certainly be costs associated with dismantling that EB to NB ramp and replacing it with a cloverleaf ramp.
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Interesting. Do you know if there are any documents available to look at? I'm thinking after Garven, there would be a diamond at Dunning (or somewhere around Coronation maybe) and another diamond up around Kirkness Road/Gonor Station area. There's you freeway from Perimeter to 44. 3 diamonds, 2 trumpets and 2 cloverleaves, and thing thing at the east end of the Floodway bridge.