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Originally Posted by newflyer
You make it sound like they haven't built interchanges, freeways and expressways around the world for the past 30 years. The facts soundly suggest otherwise, across North America, Europe and Asia. There is no cost savings maintaining an inefficient roadway system when your economy is based on the transportation of goods and people. Even the third world has figured out this most simple reality.
Winnipeg is now reaching the critical mass where significant upgrades to its roadway system is absolutely nessesary to reach its potencial or face the reality that Winnipeg will be passed by, in terms of being a realivant centre of global trade. The governments of Manitoba and Canada have realized this fact and is now looking at playing catchup for decades of poor decision making and cheap compromise in the Winnipeg Capital Region over the past 50 years.
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New flyers got a point there. The government of ontario still invests hundreds of millions even billions into the 400 hundred series highways, (which turns out to be a side route for american truck shipments, who don't want to go all the way around, in the states). There is not a day that goes by where there isn't construction constantly making the road more efficient, or widening the lanes.
And especially for a city that is so dependent on trade, without modern roadways Winnipeg has no potential growth.