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Originally Posted by alittle1
R'man, bishop was built in the 80's.
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Bishop Grandin was opened in 1978 from Pembina to Lagimodière. It was a prerequisite of building St. Vital Centre. The St. Boniface section was two lanes for a couple of years because there wasn't enough in the budget for the other two lanes. The intersections were built with the four-lane configuration, however, so the road bloated awkwardly out to four lanes from two around each of the intersections.
While Bishop Grandin was part of the Suburban Beltway plan of the 60s, I think the city had largely given up on that until St. Vital Centre finally went ahead. In the meantime, the city had already started work on extending Beaverhill Blvd. to St. Anne's Road, which was the 1970s idea for a new Seine River crossing. This work was suddenly abandoned when the funding for Route 165 came through and the newly completed part of Beaverhill in St. Vital was left as a dead-end road and then apparently removed since it doesn't seem to be on the street plan anymore.