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Originally Posted by The Jabroni
Great report!
Even though it's not set in stone, a lot of people (including myself) addressed to the engineers and architects of the ultimate plan for Brookside/Route 90-CPT junction as a diamond interchange. They may have their reasons, but putting a traffic light in either phases would be a major mistake, since Brookside has heavy traffic during weekday rush hours.
But we'll see what happens. At the very least, they've thought this through, and it's interesting hearing from the engineers that the city thought of a last minute change in regards to Ferrier and CPT to make it into a diamond, but mentioned that it was already out of scope of the project.
I can't wait for this to get built!
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Yeah as for Brookside/Route 90 I agree that ultimately a Diamond interchange design isn't the right one there. It should be something like a Parclo, ideally with at the least, flyover from westbound CPT to southbound Brookside. I drew an example below. Of course, other flyovers are always welcome too but as a minimum there should be this one.
I've been pushing/lobbying very hard for those interchanges at Ferrier and Pipeline. Glad to see that's ultimately the plan in the final phase. The dream of Winnipeg's first proper Freeway may come after-all. I've always had the sense that the engineers "want" to build it a Freeway but often they are limited by having to listen to the "concerns" (often very frugal concerns), of the local citizens of a neighbourhood. So all that's really needed is a few local citizens to be adamant that there is a generational change now, and we no longer want to be "cheap" Winnipeg that does things at low cost. It's time for us to spend a little and build proper infrastructure from the get-go. The engineers just need some local citizens that they can then point to, to their higher-ups and say, "yes we considered the concerns of the local citizens in the design, they actually told us to built it big, expensive, and elaborate". In other words it doesn't take much to convince them to advocate for what we'd want anyhow.
The next big thing I'm trying to advocate is the use of a full re-enforced concrete roadbed, none of this low cost asphalt stuff. That way, it'll match the work done on Centreport Canada Way (which is also concrete), it'll last longer, look better, be more rugged, and ultimately will cost less in the long run since it won't have to be constantly resurfaced.