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Originally Posted by Authentic_City
And North Dakota is also in the midst of an oil boom. They have wealth and they are pouring it into roads. And they have the Interstate. I'd say ND is a vastly different kettle of fish than MB.
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I agree. ND is better off given that they received federal money for their major roads (allowing the money that would have gone into routes like I-29 and 95 to go into state highways), and now that this funding may be drying off, well hello oil revenues. Add the fact that ND is considerably smaller than Manitoba and you do have a significantly different situation.
I don't know about the soil and climate details but certainly they benefit from a much different political reality than we have in Manitoba.
But that said, ND's situation doesn't excuse the lack of appropriate transportation infrastructure within the City of Winnipeg itself, where the vast majority of people and traffic in this province are. The Winnipeg CMA is around the 800,000 mark but we arguably have the transportation infrastructure of a city half that size - in addition to highways, rapid transit is conspicuous by its absence too, and even places much smaller than Winnipeg like Kitchener-Waterloo are building proper RT while we twiddle our thumbs.