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Originally Posted by jmt18325
I can't imagine being a tourist and having to deal with that. I mean, technically, I'm a tourist, but I go to Winnipeg enough to know what I'm doing, and I did live there for four years.
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The bridges were the only truly annoying thing. I used to sit in my car, parked in traffic on some side street heading toward a bridge, and grumble that a city of Winnipeg's size should have many more crossings - some European cities have more over a few blocks than Winnipeg has in total. But then I'd get across eventually and get over it.
The thing that struck me most, though - in a benign way - was how the grids didn't line up. It cracked me up at times. A prairie city, on flat land, and every other neighbourhood has its gridded streets pointing in a different direction. It makes sense, though, when you learn they were all separate communities that kind of grew together.
But stuff like this is still hilarious when there's no topographical reason for it:
Here it's the other way around, with the gridded areas feeling forced and unnatural. They ignore the shape of the hills so you end up with some residential streets going straight up and over instead of at a softer, sideways angle. Some of the streets on the backside of my "gridded" neighbourhood are among the steepest outside of the core:
Mayor Avenue, for example, literally goes straight up and down the backside of the hill at once of its steepest points. Merrymeeting Road more or less rides the peak of the hill, with the side streets off it heading downhill in both directions. It's the backside (up in this angle) that's steep in this area.
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