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Originally Posted by Andy6
I can't imagine the PCs cutting highway projects. That's usually their thing. Perhaps they would move some of the activity out of the Winnipeg area out to rural regions that need better roads.
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Pallister committed to capping infrastructure at $1B per year... I'm not sure exactly what the NDP was spending but presumably it was more than that, so something will have to give.
I'm expecting that there will be more or less a moratorium on new highway project announcements for the next few years... the question, to my mind, is how many of the projects that have been announced will actually get the green light?
59/101 is already well in hand, and it sounds like the Headingly Bypass is pretty much a given. But beyond that it's a little iffy. The badly needed 2/3/100 diamond was announced a while back but little has been heard about it since... I wonder if that's going ahead? I wouldn't be surprised to see the more ambitious projects like the express route to Selkirk, the Oakbank Corridor and possibly the St. Norbert bypass get put up on a shelf for a while until the fiscal picture stabilizes a bit.