Peguis Twining/Transcona west development.

[Urban recluse]

Yes, especially when these areas are seeing increased developments.

[The Jabroni]

Originally Posted by Urban recluse

Are you suggesting the city becomes progressive?

If it were, the people running the city would be out of the job right now, and we wouldn't have this discussion.

[Reignman]

Originally Posted by cslusarc

rrskylar, Lag does have service roads in North Kildonan, East St Paul and St Clements.

Yes the northern stretch of it does...but these service roads are not forced to access Lag through dedicated controlled access points..this area of Lag is littered with dangerous uncontrolled crossings.

As an example, in an ideal situation, one service road would run alongside Lag from Chief Peguis (where an interchange would be present) to the north perimeter interchange with no accesses to Lag in between. No lights at Springfield, or Headmaster...and certainly no uncontrolled crossings along the way.

The reality is Lag is horribly inneficient and downright dangerous in certain spots..and the city seems to have no desire to even attempt to improve or upgrade it.

[esquire]

Lagimodiere badly needs an overhaul. This is partly why I'm opposed to building new expressways... why not improve the ones we currently have? Instead of building a new route to parallel the north Perimeter (which is what the Chief Peguis extension would be), why not put the money into adding lanes, service roads and maybe an interchange or two to Lagimodiere, which is still stuck in the late 60s period when it first opened?

Instead of having a spiderweb of half assed roads around town, why not do a couple of them right?

[CoryB]

A lot of the issues with Lag north of Concordia could be cleaned up with minimal changes. Close the uncontrolled intersections and make better use of the existing access roads.

As we have covered many times on these forums, CPT is needed to address the decades of improvements that haven't happened to roads anywhere in the city. Either you want to see improvements and support CPT *or* you want to maintain the status quo.

The plan is basically get CPT in place, build out William Clement and Sterling Lyon then fix Route 90 from Sterling Lyon to Bishop, Bishop to Lag and Lag to CPT. It's hard to say any one stretch is a limited access roadway when the whole system isn't in place. It is worth nothing though that Bishop only have seven lights, two grade separated intersections and no uncontrolled crossing. It is the closest the city has to the expressway definition from earlier. CPT and William Clement are doing a good job following that model but need to be built out more.

[rrskylar]

Read in the local rag that some improvements are coming to Peguis, controlled intersection at Peguis and Reenders, apparently Costco has purchased the land to the north and will improve their parking lot and allow for the intersection. Peguis will be twinned from Concordia to the railway line. Transcona Blvd. will also be twinned at developers expense.

[bomberjet]

Originally Posted by rrskylar

Read in the local rag that some improvements are coming to Peguis, controlled intersection at Peguis and Reenders, apparently Costco has purchased the land to the north and will improve their parking lot and allow for the intersection. Peguis will be twinned from Concordia to the railway line. Transcona Blvd. will also be twinned at developers expense.

Interesting, thanks.

That makes sense, about the intersection at Peguis and Reenders. Right now they have a "no straight" sign there. You';re not supposed to go directly across into the Costco parking lot. It's kind of on a funny angle.

Twinning Peguis from Concordia to the tracks is good. That instersection is getting really busy. Stop signs were recently installed. I imagine Peguis will also be twinned all the way through the T-cona Blvd intersection at the developers expense at some point.

No mention of the stupid T-cona Blvd/Peguis intersection? And how the road on both sides drop from 4 to 2 lanes approaching the intersection (kind of).

[Kronos]

Work slowly starting on the new Transcona Library at Plessis and Transcona Blvd.
Also noticed construction fencing around the car wash area at the Husky on Plessis and Devonshire....perhaps work is starting the rumored new McDonalds??

[bomberjet]

Work should be starting soon on the Transcona Boulevard twinning as well. I think this was posted somewhere already, but this is a better spot for it. Apologies for the image size.

http://www.winnipeg.ca/publicworks/c...#tab-documents

[cllew]

It will end just west of the CEMR rail crossing.

Apparently thee remainder to Pegus won't be completed until the other land developer (Genstar?) does more building on the north side land holdings.

[bomberjet]

Yeah, the City will take care of the rail crossing.

The last remaining pieces to be done are adjacent to the Genstar project. Westbound lanes of Transcona Blvd and northbound lanes on Peguis. The project would include upgrades to the Tcona Blvd / Peguis intersection.

[rkspec]

Originally Posted by bomberjet

Work should be starting soon on the Transcona Boulevard twinning as well. I think this was posted somewhere already, but this is a better spot for it. Apologies for the image size.

http://www.winnipeg.ca/publicworks/c...#tab-documents

Broke ground last week
https://www.instagram.com/p/BWx1fEFD...yorbrianbowman

Thats a downer that the twinning doesnt go all the way to peguis st. (according to the pic you provided)

[bomberjet]

As clew mentioned, it will be built by the developer (Genstar) as the Devonshire Park area develops. So maybe in the next couple years will see both Tcona and Peguis finished off. They're moving quick on the Park development.

Those ground breakings are hilarious. They dumped some gravel in the ditch so the Mayor could 'sod' turn. I was through there on Wednesday and no actual work has started.

[rkspec]

aaahhh....ok, understood now.

it might be hi hopes but i wonder if concordia will ever get twinned, the stretch from the overpass all the way to the end was designed with the fire hydrants already pushed back.

going home when school is in, the concordia+peguis intersection is backed up almost to the overpass.

[cllew]

Originally Posted by rkspec

aaahhh....ok, understood now.

it might be hi hopes but i wonder if concordia will ever get twinned, the stretch from the overpass all the way to the end was designed with the fire hydrants already pushed back.

going home when school is in, the concordia+peguis intersection is backed up almost to the overpass.

The part from Gateway to Molson will never get done, it apparently does not have enough traffic to justify paving that section.

[bomberjet]

The only way I see the Gateway to Molson part being twinned is if Stadacona gets extended to that point. As part of the Eastern Corridor study, Stadacona is to be 4 laned form Louise Bridge to Munroe. It would only make sense for that to connect with Concordia, providing a 4 lane route from Lag into downtown.

[optimusREIM]

Originally Posted by bomberjet

The only way I see the Gateway to Molson part being twinned is if Stadacona gets extended to that point. As part of the Eastern Corridor study, Stadacona is to be 4 laned form Louise Bridge to Munroe. It would only make sense for that to connect with Concordia, providing a 4 lane route from Lag into downtown.

That would do wonders for the traffic volumes on both Lag and Marion I would think. It could also reduce demand for that whole marion widening project that would essentially just destroy a whole neighbourhood.

[bomberjet]

There are virtually no east-west routes in north east Winnipeg. This would form some semblance of one.

Either zig zag down single lane streets or take Lag down to Marion. Neither are efficient in getting downtown.

[borkborkbork]

Posted to wrong thread. Apologies

[biguc]

Surely there's a valuable wetland, or at least a species of pheasant there that we ought to save.