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Originally Posted by biguc
I really enjoy how Ellice west of Colony connects to Webb place and dead-ends at Vaughan, rather than actually connecting to Ellice east.
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That is one of the oddities of the street grid. Originally Ellice (the West End part) ran straight into Balmoral and connected into Webb Place, or Isbister Place as it was prior to that. The downtown section of Ellice stopped at Vaughan, so you had to use Webb Place and Vaughan to connect between the two. In later years, the downtown section was extended to Balmoral but there was still a jog at that point down to West End Ellice and Balmoral. That lasted into the 1960s, when a number of commercial buildings were torn down on what was then the NW corner of Ellice and Balmoral, allowing Ellice to be put through. It was around the same time that the Cumberland extension was built just to the north.
The boundaries between Winnipeg's clashing street grids continue to create choke points in traffic flow to this day, even though you might have suspected that, as a city built on some of the world's flattest and most featureless land, there wouldn't be any such fractures in the grid.
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