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Earlier this week, there have been a handful of cars that pulled over to the shoulder on eastbound Bishop Grandin between River and St. Mary's, because of some massive potholes on the right lane, and they either got flat tires or broken suspension. They have since patched the holes. There are so many more roads out there with larger potholes. The stretch on the southbound lanes from St. Vital Rd to Bishop where there is a massive pothole close to the Popeye's. Nearly fell into it myself this morning. |
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I saw that last night. Dollarama donated a bunch of pylons to alert drivers lol. This city is a joke with road construction. |
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In 2023, Winnipeg budgeted $180 million for new streets and street renewal or $230 per person. In the same year, Calgary (the golden poster child for a revenue-rich municipal budget) budgeted $187 million for new streets and street renewal, or $132 per person. That means we spend 74% more per capita on streets here in Winnipeg compared to Calgary. This is probably the ONLY municipal budget item where we outperform other major Canadian cities on spending, and its a true reflection of the voter bases' civic priorities. Every social media platform that has Winnipeggers on it do nothing but complain about the state of our streets, especially in spring time when the potholes emerge. But I don't think we truly understand how much we spend on just fixing what roads we have compared to other cities. Part of this has to do with playing catchup from the 1990s to end of the Katz era in 2014 when road spending was virtually flat to accommodate property tax freezes/decreases during that time. I think the roads budget during that era maxed out around ~$30 million IIRC? So now after the addition of several major suburbs in the 1990s and 2000s and their associated street renewal costs coming due, we've pumped up our roads budget to the detriment of almost every other municipal service. Winnipeggers need to face reality that we will always have potholes on our streets. We will never have all our roads near-perfect condition given our climate, geology, and fiscal constraints. I have suspicions that fixing our roads is no longer an issue of money but local labour and equipment supply. If we continue to crank up road expenditures like we have in the last 10 years, we will soon hit local capacity to repair roads and just end up paying more per unit of fixed road instead of seeing more work done. I say its time to level off the amount of potholes we try to fix each year and shift some of our civic priorities to other, more impactful areas of our city. |
https://www.merx.com/mbgov/solicitat...63402&origin=2
So it looks like they’re doing eastbound Bishop grand in this year. Interesting concept of rehabilitation I had to Google what rubbelizaion is! Looks like we’re finally getting rid of those curbs and replacing them with actual shoulders if you need to pull over. It doesn’t say anything about extending the distance of the merge lanes, though which I find very concerning. |
If anyone has access to the drawings, would be interested to see what they're doing. They may still have barrier curbs on the left side (like the north perimeter). It doesn't really say clearly in that scope of work.
Ideally ya it's just a normal highway cross section with no curbs. Median might not be wide enough for that though. They do mention w-beam guardrail as well. |
Plans show removing median curb and installing paved shoulder
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Also, tender is out for extension of AT path on west side of Keewatin from Burrows to Gallagher. Nothing major, but definitely an improvement for the area, I cycled there a few years ago and was surprised by the path ending so abruptly at Burrows.
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Apples to oranges comparison in my mind. Alberta is flush with money and provides a lot of grants for infrastructure. Highway 2 through Calgary received 615 Million dollars in funding for improvements through the City in 2023 for 3-4 years worth of improvements for twinning of bridges, intersection improvements and improving access ramps, etc.. That along is like 20% of MTIs 5 year budget i think which includes ALL our infrastructure rom dams, drains, northern airports, ferrys, highways, bridges. Can you imagine what a difference it would be if say MTI upgraded and maintained Lagimodiere through the City to freeway standards?
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too many potholes in the Peg. But i do love the white out for the hockey games!
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Every spring. "OMG potholes! the worst it's ever been!" Every. Year. haha Like it's some kind of surprise.
It's not "too many potholes", is the spending deficit from the last few decades we are trying to dig out of. Thank Bowman for that. Will take another decade or so to dig out. |
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In my opinion, potholes are an inevitable problem. Winnipeg is at least trying its best to fix it, but unfortunately to have the problem fixed forever we would need to repave almost every street.
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It's a perpetual issue for sure, so we just do what we can to deal with it. :shrug:
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*checks notes* ...onto the existing path of Gunn Rd, onto the Perimeter, and then eventually go further towards Oakbank...? :shrug: |
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