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Old Posted Jan 27, 2014, 11:36 PM
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We just had this discussion a page back but here it is again, only stupider.
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We just had this discussion a page back but here it is again, only stupider.
Oh I'm sorry biguc, I didn't realize we had exceeded your personal topic discussion limit on a public forum, while also failing to meet your intellectual criteria.
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Oh I'm sorry biguc, I didn't realize we had exceeded your personal topic discussion limit on a public forum, while also failing to meet your intellectual criteria.
He needed to stroke his ego somehow. Leave the young one be.
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Old Posted Jan 28, 2014, 5:18 PM
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North East Corridor

One that has been on the books since the 60's is the Concordia extension. Originally, it was to go over Gateway thru E H Price and down to Munroe, over Henderson and across the river to connect to Inkster.

Suggestion were made through the years, if CPR was to abandon the rail line along Raleigh - Gateway the land could be used to place a roadway under Nairn overpass, utilizing the southside, cross the Red River and connect to Higgins.

Doesn't look like this will be done because Skylar likes riding his bike down the bike paths they created, as he goes over to Timmy's for coffee.

The window of opportunity only lasts so long on these projects before someone is allowed to build in the way of progress, and that is why I sometimes say, " The best thing that could happen to Winnipeg is a fire, then they could scrape up the mess, bury it and move the whole place 50 miles North at the bottom of Lake Winnipeg and call it Chicago of the North. Greed and corruption brought Winnipeg to its existing location, and if things had been allowed to go as the CPR planned, Beausejour would have been on the mainline and Winnipeg would have been located close to where Selkirk is. The stupidest thing that anyone could have done is to build a town on the confluence of two rivers that drain millions of acres of land and was originally the bottom of Lake Agassiz. http://www.mhs.mb.ca/docs/mb_history...eagassiz.shtml OMG, if explorers only had Google maps!
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Old Posted Jan 29, 2014, 2:00 AM
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Destroy the city and rebuild it proper? I like it !! But why move it north? How about 1,000 miles south..the weather extremes dont decay what we rebuild. But the rivers have potential. Too bad we couldnt build our own riverwalk. Not talking bout OUR riverwalk. Talking about the one in San Antonio.
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Too bad we couldnt build our own riverwalk. Not talking bout OUR riverwalk. Talking about the one in San Antonio.
Paseo del Rio. An absolute thing of beauty.

http://www.thesanantonioriverwalk.com/
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Old Posted Jan 29, 2014, 7:10 PM
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Province announces $100M in new infrastructure work

The Selinger government has announced an additional $100 million in road building and repair projects for the coming year.

He said the latest announcement would create another 1,140 jobs. The new projects will be spread across Manitoba.
- freep

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In addition to the existing funding that's already going toward infrastructure projects. hmmmmmm

They really are trying to save their A******S after their fail with PST increase.
Attack Adds to follow soon.

Can you speculate to where the "newly found funding" *cough* is going?
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Old Posted Jan 29, 2014, 7:30 PM
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Province announces $100M in new infrastructure work

The Selinger government has announced an additional $100 million in road building and repair projects for the coming year.

He said the latest announcement would create another 1,140 jobs. The new projects will be spread across Manitoba.
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With the exception of Centreport Canada Way which no one other than Centreport Canada asked for, there are rarely ever any new projects or tangible improvements in these annoucements. It's always repave 1.2 km of this highway, grade that gravel road, replace this culvert, routine maintenance sort of stuff. Might as well announce the changing of a lightbulb in the Legislature.

Anytime there is a more ambitious announcement like improvements to the Perimeter, it's always super-vague with no timelines or commitments. The end result is that hardly anything happens like with PTH 101 at 59, which has been announced umpteen times over the past 20 years.

Maybe a lot more money is going into highways, but nothing ever actually seems to improve.
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Old Posted Jan 29, 2014, 7:41 PM
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Might as well announce the changing of a lightbulb in the Legislature.

Maybe a lot more money is going into highways, but nothing ever actually seems to improve.
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Old Posted Jan 29, 2014, 8:04 PM
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With the exception of Centreport Canada Way which no one other than Centreport Canada asked for, there are rarely ever any new projects or tangible improvements in these annoucements. It's always repave 1.2 km of this highway, grade that gravel road, replace this culvert, routine maintenance sort of stuff. Might as well announce the changing of a lightbulb in the Legislature.

Anytime there is a more ambitious announcement like improvements to the Perimeter, it's always super-vague with no timelines or commitments. The end result is that hardly anything happens like with PTH 101 at 59, which has been announced umpteen times over the past 20 years.

Maybe a lot more money is going into highways, but nothing ever actually seems to improve.
I was excited about this announcement until I actually read the news release....

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You nailed it on the head.
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Old Posted Jan 29, 2014, 8:16 PM
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Province announces $100M in new infrastructure work

The Selinger government has announced an additional $100 million in road building and repair projects for the coming year.

He said the latest announcement would create another 1,140 jobs. The new projects will be spread across Manitoba.
- freep

~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~

In addition to the existing funding that's already going toward infrastructure projects. hmmmmmm

They really are trying to save their A******S after their fail with PST increase.
Attack Adds to follow soon.

Can you speculate to where the "newly found funding" *cough* is going?
That's 100Mill divided by 1140 jobs equals......carry the 1....@@55##44$4$$&&..... $87,719.29 per job. NICE!
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Old Posted Jan 29, 2014, 8:20 PM
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Anytime there is a more ambitious announcement like improvements to the Perimeter, it's always super-vague with no timelines or commitments. The end result is that hardly anything happens like with PTH 101 at 59, which has been announced umpteen times over the past 20 years.
Speaking of 59/101, if the province now has $100 million more to spend on infrastructure, why not put that towards this long overdue interchange?

Sadly, what we will likely see is piecemeal projects spread across the province in an attempt to sway voters severely miffed at the PST increase.
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I'm guessing that they've done polling and have concluded that the only thing that can move the middle class vote back to them, while still appeasing their union backers, is to promise a lot of money for fixing roads.
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Old Posted Jan 30, 2014, 3:14 AM
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I'm guessing that they've done polling and have concluded that the only thing that can move the middle class vote back to them, while still appeasing their union backers, is to promise a lot of money for fixing roads.
Ever wonder who's yardstick they use when they make these announcements that they will spend 'X' amount of dollars?

Somewhere in a backroom is some little bean counter saying to himself, what kind of magic number can I get them to believe, today.
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With the exception of Centreport Canada Way which no one other than Centreport Canada asked for, there are rarely ever any new projects or tangible improvements in these annoucements. It's always repave 1.2 km of this highway, grade that gravel road, replace this culvert, routine maintenance sort of stuff. Might as well announce the changing of a lightbulb in the Legislature.

Anytime there is a more ambitious announcement like improvements to the Perimeter, it's always super-vague with no timelines or commitments. The end result is that hardly anything happens like with PTH 101 at 59, which has been announced umpteen times over the past 20 years.

Maybe a lot more money is going into highways, but nothing ever actually seems to improve.
You nailed it esquire, the disgrace called PTH101 @59 shows the ineptitude of the NDP, hard to believe a government anywhere else in Canada would let that intersection fester for so long. Mind boggling that Centreport Canada Way got funded and pushed through so quickly considering it probably ranked around #58 on the priority list of needed infrastructure projects in Manitoba!
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Old Posted Jan 30, 2014, 5:59 AM
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I'm guessing that they've done polling and have concluded that the only thing that can move the middle class vote back to them, while still appeasing their union backers, is to promise a lot of money for fixing roads.
Ain't that the truth, how do you spell ineptitude...N..D..P..
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They still have more money to spend. I seem to recall there was to be another open house for the AT bridge over the Perimeter sometime in early 2014. That project is kind of linked with the interchange. So maybe we'll hear something on both of those over the coming months.
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Breakdown of where some of the $100 million is going in yesterdays announcement.


Six kilometres of paving on PR 427 from PR 334 to PTH 100 near Winnipeg.
Two km of concrete rehabilitation on PTH 9 north of PTH 9A near Selkirk.
28 km of surface rehabilitation on PR 200 from PR 305 to the floodway near Winnipeg.
Nine km of paving on PTH 52 east and west of PTH 12 in Steinbach.
15 km of paving of the westbound lanes of PTH 1 from PTH 1A to PTH 13 east of Portage la
Prairie.
Seven km of paving of the eastbound lanes of PTH 1 east and west of PTH 16 west of Portage
la Prairie.

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The Manitoba Heavy Construction Association and its members.
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The Manitoba Heavy Construction Association and its members.
We have the correct answer. Well done.
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