Winnipeg Roads & Infrastructure

[BigG]

Retaining WALLS galore.

[buzzg]

Originally Posted by CoryB

^^ Anyone know why it would cost $18,000 to change the timing on a light cycle? I would hope part of the change at Arlington and Notre Dame is to add signals for the east and west directions making left turns as that seems to be the biggest issue there.

My guess is the same reason why when new pedestrian crossing signals go up they must go thru a mandatory 2-month garbage bag phase before they are operational.

[cllew]

Originally Posted by buzzg

My guess is the same reason why when new pedestrian crossing signals go up they must go thru a mandatory 2-month garbage bag phase before they are operational.

Are you talking about pedestrian corridor signals? If I recall properly the ones just put in for Concordia Hospital across Concordia didn't sit bagged for two months before being activated.

Only thing I have to wonder about is why they were not put in (or at least the bases and paving) at the same time the construction of the Concordia / Molson intersection was being done as they are in the area that was repaved?

Putting them in required curb cuts and concrete/asphalt work repairs to the new work that was done on Concordia in 2014.

[Riverman]

I think he means the countdown ones. I have wondered why they stay bagged for so long but I guess it is a testing phase.

[bomberjet]

No firm timeline on Waverley. But within the next couple years, since I believe the funding is approved.

Traffic will be a nightmare out there when Waverley and Pembina underpass widening (part of the transitway project) will be occurring at the same time. That goodness I don't have to go out that way much.

[buzzg]

Originally Posted by Riverman

I think he means the countdown ones. I have wondered why they stay bagged for so long but I guess it is a testing phase.

Yes. Even before the countdown ones when they replaced the incandescent with the LED the same thing occured quite often. The ones at Donald and Broadway were probably bagged for 2-3 months.

[cllew]

Yes you are right about the countdown ones, they seem to be bagged longer. There were suppose to be 45 intersections activated in 2015.

City has a list here http://www.winnipeg.ca/publicworks/P...s-PlanList.pdf of the current order of installation, but no time line after 2015.

[buzzg]

Originally Posted by cllew

Yes you are right about the countdown ones, they seem to be bagged longer. There were suppose to be 45 intersections activated in 2015.

City has a list here http://www.winnipeg.ca/publicworks/P...s-PlanList.pdf of the current order of installation, but no time line after 2015.

Is that a list of every controlled intersection with pedestrian signals in the city lol? Only 400?

[cllew]

Originally Posted by buzzg

Is that a list of every controlled intersection with pedestrian signals in the city lol? Only 400?

City traffic signal web page says as of its last update there are 655 traffic lights. Just looking at that list there there 4 intersections in EK/Transcona that are not on it for upgrades.

One is only run weekdays as a school crossing, two more may have been upgraded as a separate project when the intersections were repaved in 2014.
I'll probably be by those two intersections Friday and if I remember I'll look to see if they have the countdown timer.

[cllew]

Went through the two new intersections in EK/Transcona and they were not upgraded to the countdown timers when the signal poles were moved as part of the intersection upgrades in 2014/15

[bomberjet]

Now that the Polo Park infrastructure improvements are complete, I seem to remember a tender out from the City recently for the design of reconstructing St James from Maroons to Portage. Did anybody else see this? I can't find the tender on the City website. Only found one for sewer reconstruction.

Basically the City planned to eliminate completely the shared centre turn lane. This only exists now from Maroons (or Silver I guess) to Portage. The others were removed as part of the main project, that cost $45M by the way.

[BigG]

Pardon my ignorance because I haven't been in the area in a while, but does St. Matthews go all the way to Route 90 now?

[bomberjet]

It does. The city demo'd the long strip mall that was in the way. I'm actually quite pleased with all the work. But for $45 million, I should be.

[BigG]

^Thanks.

[CoryB]

There is definitely a plan to overhaul St James from Portage to whatever they stopped at this year in the construction season next summer.

When that is done they desperately need to do something about Empress.

[BigG]

I wish the banks of Omands Creek were shored up and Empress made into a four-lane divided roadway from Saskatchewan Ave all the way to Portage. Actually, it's already divided to Maroons Rd so I suppose we're one sixth of the way there.

[Kinguni]

Originally Posted by BigG

I wish the banks of Omands Creek were shored up and Empress made into a four-lane divided roadway from Saskatchewan Ave all the way to Portage. Actually, it's already divided to Maroons Rd so I suppose we're one sixth of the way there.

Don't expect anything other than reconstruction to happen. Nothing will ever happen on the creek side due to environmental concerns.

[bomberjet]

I was once pushed into that creek by some goof ball at the Canad Inns bar haha

[Biff]

The Province will announce the St Norbert Bypass project today.

[esquire]

Originally Posted by Biff

The Province will announce the St Norbert Bypass project today.

Hopefully with a more aggressive timeline than their plans for the Perimeter?