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Originally Posted by Spocket
Pre-Unicity planning was uncoordinated regarding traffic.
After Unicity, it's not that they had no clue what they were doing, it was that each successive government has either kiboshed whatever plans the previous group had or decided to simply pass the buck. Bishop Grandin's planners had saved plenty of room for interchanges but city council members decided that that land was just too good to pass up selling so some of it got sold off. That's one example but there are plenty more. Our city council has never been able to stick to a plan. If anything, that's the biggest problem with it no matter how many decades anybody wants to go back.
Chief Peguis (well, actually it's the ESP) will dead end at Regent because there's a patch of native tall-grass prairie that nobody gives a shit about. Well, apparently a few people cared enough to make an issue of it although I suspect they didn't really care about it either but rather simply found it to be a convenient excuse to play NIMBY. That's actually just fine considering we don't have the cash to build it properly anyway and it's just as well that maybe that money could be spent on improvements to other routes.
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Regardless of the tall grass prairie or not, the ESP is not going to happen unless it is tunneled all the way to plessis near the Symington yards.
Probably after the Tall grass prairie reserve was implemented, the city sold off the rest of the ROW. You can tell by these clusters of houses and roads that don't quite fit in with the nearby development and were added in after the fact (along heartstone drive):
https://www.google.ca/maps/@49.89026.../data=!3m1!1e3
And along with the Shady Shores development, ESP would be prohibitively expensive to expropriate all those properties, even if the city
only had to tunnel under the prairie reserve.
When chief peguis will be extended east, it will branch off to connect at Plessis and also continue east to Perimeter near Gunn Rd (and beyond - Oakbank, as per the transportation master plan).
The city's inner ring road will unlikely ever be full free flowing. Plessis and Moray north of Portage are too residential that unless mass expropriation or tunneling happen these spots will have to be 50-60kmh zones