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Biff · #**1381** Posted **Apr 16, 2025, 5:05 PM**

I don't believe so.

WinCitySparky · #**1382** Posted **Apr 16, 2025, 5:27 PM**

Stuff like that is what makes the world so dangerous these days. The internet is largely now a brain disease. Disinformation on the internet is the most dangerous problem facing our world in these times.

bussche · #**1383** Posted **Apr 30, 2025, 5:02 PM**

bomberjet · #**1384** Posted **Apr 30, 2025, 5:06 PM**

With all the hoarding now taken down and sections of new sidewalk visible, it looks so much different. Carmageddon never happened. We'll see how things go once it opens up at end of June.

pegster · #**1385** Posted **Apr 30, 2025, 5:36 PM**

I'm a little surprised they didn't put up any bollards or anything, but maybe the Mayor was right, it's just an intersection.

bomberjet · #**1386** Posted **Apr 30, 2025, 5:53 PM**

They definitely have bollards in the major overall that is proposed. I wonder if they'll still get put up when that major work happens.

neutroniks · #**1387** Posted **Apr 30, 2025, 8:19 PM**

Imagine if they introduced scramble crossing. Would be pretty grand once everyone's back in office and more residential components get built + the new transit stop. It seems to work really well at a lot of the larger intersections in Montreal. But they also have waaay more people lol

bomberjet · #**1388** Posted **May 1, 2025, 5:31 PM**

The 'everyone back in office comment'. At this point, it's as back in the office as it's gonna get I think. If there's still a return to work plan at some company, like wow it's been yeeears haha.

1ajs · #**1389** Posted **May 9, 2025, 10:42 PM**

shame this was done as a cheap out rather then proper planning

Jeff · #**1390** Posted **May 9, 2025, 10:48 PM**

yeah it appears the finishings of the sidewalks and street infrastructure are at par with Kenaston and Sterling Lyon and not where they should be for our prominent, urban and historic downtown crossroads. but what did we expect from gillingham anyway?

michelleb · #**1391** Posted **May 9, 2025, 11:02 PM**

I get such sun blindness off the ultra reflective white sidewalks. I don't remember having that problem in other cities.

I wish the city would stop putting in that "decorative" banding. The bricks end up shifting around when the sand/gravel washes away. There's a spot on Donald south of York that developed an ankle-twisting strip within a year of being built that I have to avoid every day, and the city never fixed it when they were doing spot fixes under contract last year.

Jeff · #**1392** Posted **May 9, 2025, 11:33 PM**

the worst thing with the decorative banding is that on some streets it's painted on.. like on academy rd LOL but then no missing bricks at least.

FactaNV · #**1393** Posted **May 9, 2025, 11:34 PM**

In all fairness, any decoration would come with the transit station, should they have built it all at the same time? Yes. But is it coming despite that? Also yes. (At least let's hope so).

Jeff · #**1394** Posted **May 9, 2025, 11:38 PM**

well hopefully carney rewards winnipeg with voting mostly red with heaps of federal transit funds! otherwise we gonna get used to this intersection as-is for a decade or two for sure.

pspeid · #**1395** Posted **May 10, 2025, 2:20 PM**

Man it does NOT take long for people to take a victory and turn it into an unmitigated disaster. The sidewalks suck! Gillingham sucks! Everything sucks! The "keep it closed" faction must be loving this.

Glenn99 · #**1396** Posted **May 10, 2025, 5:12 PM**

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Originally Posted by pspeid

Man it does NOT take long for people to take a victory and turn it into an unmitigated disaster. The sidewalks suck! Gillingham sucks! Everything sucks! The "keep it closed" faction must be loving this.

No kidding!

1ajs · #**1397** Posted **May 10, 2025, 5:24 PM**

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Originally Posted by pspeid

Man it does NOT take long for people to take a victory and turn it into an unmitigated disaster. The sidewalks suck! Gillingham sucks! Everything sucks! The "keep it closed" faction must be loving this.

no im saying shame we did this cheaping out thats all as the underground is an asset we need to keep going as well

pspeid · #**1398** Posted **May 10, 2025, 5:55 PM**

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Originally Posted by 1ajs

no im saying shame we did this cheaping out thats all as the underground is an asset we need to keep going as well

But isn't calling this opening of P & M a "cheap out" just another way to belittle what is essentially a positive development? I know this is an opinion forum and people are free to blue sky different ideas, but I think we have to keep a sense of perspective as well. For many of us opening P & M is a positive step in the regrowth of downtown. Improved aesthetics are desirable, but they can be added later. It's great to dream big, but P & M is hardly the only expense the city has to deal with. I think it's incredibly short-sighted to start slagging Gillingham (other posters, not you) for not providing something flashier at P & M when he's been the only mayor to actually get the job done and open the intersection. We often bemoan the lack of vision in our civic leaders. I wonder how many people want to do something daring or original when their own supporters eventually turn on them?

pegster · #**1399** Posted **May 12, 2025, 1:11 AM**

^ Agreed.

Gillingham has taken the "open or closed" debate off the table, finally. And the repairs look pretty handsome, if basic, to me. I don't think we should spend lots of time and money debating making it a grand plaza for people before the people have even come back.

Once we get some movement on the downtown transit corridor, where P&M will be a major interchange, we can spiff it it up. But for now, just get it open. The people make the place.

Mr Tall Forehead · #**1400** Posted **May 12, 2025, 2:36 AM**

^ ditto to both the above.