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Originally Posted by cllew
Traffic signals at Raleigh and Springfield if I recall properly from around 2014 were to be restored if and when the Palliser group ever gets their housing project going on the west part of the former CP Transcona Yard behind the big church on the corner.
Also Raleigh and Gateway suffer from being under the jurisdiction of 3 different governments before the big Unicity merge back in the 1970's. The City of Winnipeg, The City of East Kildonan and the RM of North Kildonan all controlled portions of those right of ways and had different thoughts on how they were to be developed.
If you notice the old City of Winnipeg section is not as wide as the East Kildonan part starting at the back lane of Harbison when Morse Place was developed.
I'm old enough to remember them being really rural type gravel roads at one time. Raleigh was the last to get a full hard surface and that would have been the section in former EK Industrial Park from Kimberly south. Gateway north of Kimberly was paved as part of the Valley Gardens development
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Even as a child, thirty some years ago, I wondered what the hell the city was thinking when it dreamed up the stupidity that is Raleigh and gateway. I was even more confused when they ripped up the rail line for the third sidewalk… the other two weren’t good enough? lol… Should have been turned into a boulevard years ago. With a rapid transit line right down the middle of it. Could have had a park and ride in birds hill at the perimeter and carried passengers swiftly downtown. But nope. Zero vision.
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