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!