Wpg: Chief Peguis Trail Extension - Page 27

Riverman · #**521** Posted **Sep 10, 2011, 4:06 PM**

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Originally Posted by jmt18325

Not in a climate like ours.

Several sections of I-29 and I-94 have been ground following addition of rebar like I described, right around Fargo. There is a 50 mile stretch near Madison too, no overlay, just ground.

jmt18325 · #**522** Posted **Sep 10, 2011, 7:23 PM**

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Originally Posted by Riverman

Several sections of I-29 and I-94 have been ground following addition of rebar like I described, right around Fargo. There is a 50 mile stretch near Madison too, no overlay, just ground.

They did that on Highway 7 and Kenaston as well. It's already starting to heave and needs further repairs because the water gets into the cracks, especially at the corners where the sections meet. They were fixing it earlier this year.

original · #**523** Posted **Sep 19, 2011, 11:04 PM**

Are you guys referring to road surface tining?
Where they take a tining machine and cut vertical lines on the concrete surface that go with the flow of traffic.

I think our concrete surface is too thin for this. When you see this done on interstates, the concrete is a lot thicker, and thus it doesn't seem to shift that much.

Pretty surprised when I drove by CPT and saw that their using asphalt instead of concrete like the current stretch over the settlers bridge, that by the way has had surface tining done to it last fall. It still is pretty smooth to drive on.

The Jabroni · #**524** Posted **Sep 20, 2011, 1:44 AM**

It's very grippy, but wears out your tires more. :/

Riverman · #**525** Posted **Sep 20, 2011, 12:19 PM**

They are called rain grooves, they help to prevent hydroplaning.

rrskylar · #**526** Posted **Sep 23, 2011, 3:44 AM**

Drove down Gateway twice tonight, once at 5:30 and again around 7:30, traffic was backed up both ways between Springfield and McIvor. The city in their infinite wisdom has constructed only one lane northbound on this stretch while eliminating a large section of Raleigh that also carried traffic in the same direction. Can't believe how ass backwards everything is done in regards to traffic flow especially since this is new construction on an already over-capacity roadway. My vent!

Kinguni · #**527** Posted **Sep 23, 2011, 6:46 AM**

You could have been on Henderson instead. 1 lane at Chief Peguis and Henderson backed up to Kimberly. Tales of buses running and hour and half late due to this. Poor construction planning, but typical for Winnipeg. It should all clear up once the construction is done, but for now is inexcusable.

Biff · #**528** Posted **Sep 23, 2011, 1:47 PM**

I wanted to pull out my fucking hair yesterday trying to get home. I have always questioned the wisdom behind making Gateway just one lane in each direction rrskylar. I have to hope that things will get better once Rothesay opens up again because yesterday there was only 4 lanes total to go northward in east Winnipeg yesterday.

marketcorrection · #**529** Posted **Sep 23, 2011, 11:08 PM**

traffic is an insane nightmare at the moment in north kildonan. took 20 minutes to go about 1 km yesterday. terrible planning by the city to cut off raleigh at gilmore.

rrskylar · #**530** Posted **Sep 24, 2011, 4:46 AM**

^ Twinning Gateway between Springfiled and McIvor would solve that.

The Jabroni · #**531** Posted **Sep 24, 2011, 5:44 AM**

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Originally Posted by rrskylar

^ Twinning Gateway between Springfiled and McIvor would solve that.

Yeah, if only that was part of the whole plan. Instead, they only twin Gateway at the intersection of CPT.

marketcorrection · #**532** Posted **Sep 24, 2011, 10:45 PM**

the problem is to get from raleigh to gilmore you now have to go down spring field, onto gateway, stop sign at sun valley, turn onto macivor, then on raleigh, then to gilmore..

it used to be go down raleigh to gilmore directly. they need to extend the road from gilmore right to gateway where sunvalley is, so there is a little traffic square from (gilmore -> macivor -> gateway -> gilmore new intersection with no stop sign for gateway. this would solve lots of the traffic problems that are going to now arise at the macivor 4 way stop.

rrskylar · #**533** Posted **Sep 26, 2011, 3:21 PM**

Are they connecting Gilmore with Sun Valley Drive? Wasn't sure the city had made a decision yet, I know there was some area opposition (what else).

Biff · #**534** Posted **Sep 26, 2011, 3:53 PM**

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Originally Posted by rrskylar

Are they connecting Gilmore with Sun Valley Drive? Wasn't sure the city had made a decision yet, I know there was some area opposition (what else).

^^^The answer is no.

marketcorrection · #**535** Posted **Sep 26, 2011, 6:58 PM**

No that is not the plan. This is what I propose, and makes the most sense.

original · #**536** Posted **Sep 27, 2011, 4:53 AM**

Another thing that makes no sense:

Have you guys seen the huge amounts of dirt at the Gateway/CPT intersection?
Why didn't they just make a diamond overpass over CPT? Kind of makes sense since the dirt is already so elevated.

Just add a bridge over CPT and add two sets of lights over Gateway. Then there would be free-flow from Henderson to Lag.

There is obviously more than enough room to do this.
I guess its over budget for this project...

Biff · #**537** Posted **Sep 27, 2011, 1:32 PM**

^^^ The City doesn't do things that make sense. That would have alleviated a lot of current and future headaches, and probably only cost another $10 million to do things right from the start.

original · #**538** Posted **Sep 28, 2011, 4:14 PM**

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Originally Posted by Biff

^^^ The City doesn't do things that make sense. That would have alleviated a lot of current and future headaches, and probably only cost another $10 million to do things right from the start.

That's a real shame.
I don't understand why we don't do things right the first time, especially if the costs for diamond interchanges are so low and are really effective at handling traffic flow. Gateway and CPT would be perfect for a diamond.

I remember reading somewhere that as traffic flow increases, they may consider a interchange over Gateway as a future project. I seriously doubt that will happen until CPT is so over congested that its unbearable. Kind of how 59 right after the Concordia overpass to Springfield gets back up for 5km during rush hour, yet nothing is done about that. I'd like to see a flyover at Grassie, or some sort of interchange to get rid of those lights.

On a brighter note, I checked out the flyover at Rothesay and CPT the other day, looks like its finally getting closer to being finished. Their at the point of connecting the road way up to the bridge.

rrskylar · #**539** Posted **Sep 28, 2011, 4:30 PM**

With the ramps leading up to the overpass it's going to look like the Arlington Bridge when finished. Feel bad for the home-owners along Rothesay who will have cars passing their homes at the roof line.

original · #**540** Posted **Sep 28, 2011, 5:51 PM**

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Originally Posted by rrskylar

With the ramps leading up to the overpass it's going to look like the Arlington Bridge when finished. Feel bad for the home-owners along Rothesay who will have cars passing their homes at the roof line.

I think it's going to look a lot more appealing than the hideous thing that is the Arlington Bridge.

I looked at the city works images and noticed a funny thing, two USPS (united states postal service) trucks in their sketch drawings...

LOL, I didn't know we had USPS in Canada...