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Originally Posted by cllew
Springfield signals were left in place I believe because it is the west end of the truck route that comes out on the east side of hwy 101 via Gunn Road.
Having Kilcona park off of Springfield and also all the traffic coming out of the Kitchen Craft plant at quitting time may have also factored into it.
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Where have you ever seen the City give a crap about the worker's ride home? Unless the workers are heading down to buy a car from Larry Vickar, ESP won't do them a damn bit of good. If they came off the CP roadway right where the sheep farmer is at Plessis and Grassie, knocked down the six houses that should have never been built there and then added two more lanes to Plessis all the way to Hwy #1; then you would have a roadway for the next 25 years.
The problem with the City is, they are always trying to get someone else to pay for it. The people of Winnipeg have to own-up-to-it, we need NEW roadways to carry the traffic in this city properly and the people of this city have to understand that. This isn't St.James where you have a Portage Ave. running right to downtown with six to eight lanes, this is left turn, right turn, deadend, around the bend, through the woods to Gramma's house EK/Transcona. Nothing runs straight here!
Back in the 60's when we had METRO, the Road Builders, directing things in this town; we received some of the benifits in the North/South East. St.James, River Heights, Fort Garry received the bounty, because of their population growth and devine intervention by the all mighty power of GREASE. The influential could almost phone up Bonnycastle and order a road.
The City of Winnipeg, at the same time period, just went about paving its back lanes in the North and West ends. The Other Seven Cities except for St.James, just spent their time filling potholes and grading gravel roads. St.James was the only City that entered amalgamation with a surplus in its coffers and demanded that the monies be spent for their betterment, which it was.
It is my feeling that road building should be taken out of the hands of the City and entrusted to a more capable arms-length authority that would be more suitable to the future needs of the City and the Province. Because ALL people of Manitoba use the Streets of Winnipeg, ALL the people of Manitoba should pay for the Major roadways.
Do others see this differently?