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Originally Posted by esquire
That's about the size of it. The consultants didn't say that placing the firehall in the loop would result in catastrophe, just that it wasn't really the best idea in the context of industry design standards. The City just carried on and did what it was going to do anyway.
The interchange itself really has barely changed since it was built in the 1960s and is in dire need of upgrades... the ramps leading to SB Route 90 are deficient to the point of being dangerous. Eventually fixing the WB to SB ramp will likely become more complicated as a result of this firehall.
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Originally Posted by esquire
Hard to blame Winnipeg drivers for that one... of all the cities I've ever driven in, I don't think I've seen a merge as blind as that one. A visitor from out of town trying to make that turn from EB Portage to SB Route 90 would surely be caught by surprise as the ramp basically throws them right into a traffic lane without warning.
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If this intersection is "deficient to the point of being dangerous" then why isn't it ever on the list of highest incidents intersections? Or at least it hasn't been from 2004-2010. Now MPI has taken over that information and they don't publish a GIS version of incidents.
http://www.winnipeg.ca/publicworks/Infor...a/TrafficData/traffic_collision_data.asp
And you are using a misnomer. That stretch of what you call a merge is a yield, as can be told by the red outlined triangle with white interior that points down at the end of it.
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