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Originally Posted by CoryB
You do realize the north part of the city has been growing almost as fast as the south, especially in the last 15 years? Yet the road infrastructure in the north is similar to where the south would have been in the mid 1980s? Beofre Bishop between Lag and St Annes was twinned. Before Bishop and Kennaston met up. Before the Kennaston underpass was built. Long before the Waverly underpass was even a discussion. Building CPT is effectively the same as twinning Bishop between Lag and St Annes. That is how big an infrastructure defect the city as a whole is in. We are talking about projects that should have been done 30 years ago that are still "future considerations". Sure south Winnipeg needs improvements but so does every corner of Winnipeg.
There is a reason north Winnipeg is repeatedly getting funding for new schools, more so than south Winnipeg. Here is a hint, there is actual significant population growth happening in the area. The largest high schools in the province? Nope nothing in south Winnipeg, they are all in the north.
As for your incorrect claims that the affluent all move to south Winnipeg, guess you haven't heard of East St Paul or the expensive houses in River Ridge, Amber Trails and similar areas. Not surprising since you don't seem to know much about that part of the city.
Winnipeg needs to start looking at issues as a whole and not focus solely on what works for southwest Winnipeg, unless southwest Winnipeg wants to start being the "losers" as the other areas band together to ensure their voices are the ones running City Hall.
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I've grew up in Riverbend, lived around the Salter and Partridge area through high school, and now living in Garden City, and I can tell you, this area of the city has not grown as fast as the south. Granted, Amber Trails, Riverbend, and River Ridge has expanded (and maxed out), and Aurora and areas north of Keewatin/Jose Rizal is now under way, it is no where near the sheer volume or pace that Linden Woods, Linden Ridge, and Whyte Ridge had, nor Waverley West and Sage Creek now.
The need for CPT going all the way from Main to Route 90 is needed now, because it's the perfect oppurtunity to do so. Traffic in the last 5 years in this area of the city along Main St. between CPT and Leila/Patridge, Leila between Main and McPhillips, McPhillips between Leila and Inkster, and Inkster between McPhillips and Route 90, has increased dramatically.
This is not even including the growth in the RM of West St. Paul, and East St. Paul, and the unrelated but still significant effect of traffic coming from North Kildonan, East Kildonan, and Transcona. These areas have grown in themselves, and having cross-traffic from the east side of the city to the west side has grown.
The south grew at a rapid rate, and with that, the transportation need was higher in that part of the city, while the north was in a plateau, with Amber Trails steadily growing, along with Riverbend, but no actual expansion until now.
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