Manitoba Highways

[Wpgstvsouth94]

Originally Posted by plrh

Road base requires a lot of water to compact. It can't be done in freezing temperatures. For job planning purposes, road crews start after May long. Sometimes they can start a week or two early.

Fingers crossed!!

[bomberjet]

Also need to let the frost out of the ground for road construction. With the relatively mild winter, shouldnt be too deep. It's still early in the season.

[bomberjet]

Updated RFP schedule from the Province today.
https://news.gov.mb.ca/news/index.ht...ted=2021-04-26

Hwy 1 structures in Whiteshell scheduled for release July 15. Twinning functional design scheduled for September.

Other notable projects.

St. Mary's / 100 RFP release April 30.
Daly overpass in Brandon construction May 10.
Hwy 1 Symington Overpass design June 25.

A bunch of paving, grading, drainage work on Hwy 75, 101, etc.

[esquire]

Nice to see at least some progress. Feels like not much has happened around Winnipeg since the 101/59 interchange opened.

[1ajs]

o manitobas longest spanning bridge is up for replacement then
C15049 15 RFP ESP Preliminary Design (Structure)
(Site 3329) 391 At Churchill River: 3.0km North of PR 493 (Vicinity of
Leaf Rapids)
Town of Leaf
Rapids Nov

[Dengler Avenue]

https://www.kenoraonline.com/article...toric-ceremony
Read: Except delay at Manitoba-Ontario border this fall.

[bomberjet]

The way things are going, the border might still be barricaded anyways..

[Wpgstvsouth94]

Would it not be beneficial to start now with traffic being completely down to below average levels?? So weird

[bomberjet]

I assume they still need to finalize design drawings. Get a tender out for contractors. Line up the cash flow. Etc.

Probably do rock blasting work over winter.

[Wpgstvsouth94]

Originally Posted by bomberjet

I assume they still need to finalize design drawings. Get a tender out for contractors. Line up the cash flow. Etc.

Probably do rock blasting work over winter.

I noticed on snap chat on the snap map people are video taping near kenora major road blasting. Parts of the trans Canada is gravel in parts.

[bomberjet]

They've been doing some blasting out there. Not sure if it's maintenance or for the future phase of widening. I think they have ongoing blasting operations every so often in problem areas. To push the rock face away from the roadway. Some of those stretches are narrow and cause big accidents. Basically in a big trough doing 90 with the walls right off the edge of pavement.

Recently there was a big boulder that was blasted onto the highway and they needed to blast it again right on the roadway.

The first section of road for the widening is from MB border to Hwy 673. A relatively short stretch of the highway.

[Dengler Avenue]

Originally Posted by Wpgstvsouth94

I noticed on snap chat on the snap map people are video taping near kenora major road blasting. Parts of the trans Canada is gravel in parts.

MTO has been quietly doing work along Kenora Bypass until one day that giant boulder made the news. (I shared it a few pages back.)

[rrskylar]

Originally Posted by Dengler Avenue

MTO has been quietly doing work along Kenora Bypass until one day that giant boulder made the news. (I shared it a few pages back.)

They were working on all the bridges on the bypass the past summer, pretty extensive!

[Spocket]

Wait a second...what's the province planning to do at the Symington overpass?

I ask because although there's no real idea of when it will happen, I get the impression that the Bishop Grandin extension to Hwy 1 has more or less made it on to the city's radar. As such, I wonder what they plan to do with Plessis at the yards to facilitate the extension. I don't imagine we're talking about any substantial changes, of course, but the ramps must make it something of a close-run thing if you get my drift.

[cllew]

Originally Posted by Spocket

Wait a second...what's the province planning to do at the Symington overpass?

I ask because although there's no real idea of when it will happen, I get the impression that the Bishop Grandin extension to Hwy 1 has more or less made it on to the city's radar. As such, I wonder what they plan to do with Plessis at the yards to facilitate the extension. I don't imagine we're talking about any substantial changes, of course, but the ramps must make it something of a close-run thing if you get my drift.

It was shored up with steel supports in 2016 and probably needs permanent replacement now.

I recall reading at the time MIT and their contractor (MD Steele) were having problems with CN on getting time to access the piers between the tracks as some of them are the lines that run up to the hump and CN did not want to shut them down.

[bomberjet]

I would hope the Province and City work together on a long term functional plan. Bishop would be best served to connect with plessis directly. As opposed to just running straight out to fermor near 101.

The short term bishop extension is only a local road to des hivernet to serve sage creek.

CN doesnt give two shits about how difficult they make it to do that bridge work. Do not stop the trains. That's their business.

[craner]

Originally Posted by Dengler Avenue

https://www.kenoraonline.com/article...toric-ceremony
Read: Except delay at Manitoba-Ontario border this fall.

It’s nuts they are waiting until Fall to get going. They’ve had 10 years to be ready to go once it was made official. :

[WildCake]

Originally Posted by craner

It’s nuts they are waiting until Fall to get going. They’ve had 10 years to be ready to go once it was made official. :

Yep I'm sure there was a full crew of construction workers that were stationed right there waiting at the ON/MB border, with the machinery on-site, and material deliveries scheduled for the morning after the press release for the last 10 years.

[Biff]

Originally Posted by bomberjet

I would hope the Province and City work together on a long term functional plan. Bishop would be best served to connect with plessis directly. As opposed to just running straight out to fermor near 101.

The short term bishop extension is only a local road to des hivernet to serve sage creek.
.

You are right, it is just a little extension to serve Sage Creek. The COW ends at Plessis Rd approximately 1.5 km from Lagimodiere. That is the gravel road portion of Plessis. Not the overpass area. Any connection to the overpass would have to run through the RM of Springfield.

[anthonyk]

Proposed intersection improvements for Deacon's Corner (PTH 1 & PR 207)