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Originally Posted by Luisito
Aside from the disreali bridge, why did Winnipeg never build any freeways? As the city grows shouldn't the city look into building some?
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Never seen a need for it I guess. There were plans for a handful of Downtown routes that would have leveled the Exchange District, which is now cherished.
I doubt there would be an appetite for a freeway running through Downtown, now that the negatives of bulldozing entire neighbourhoods for the sake of moving cars are much more apparent and publicly known. Better to focus on public transit.
The only thing that
might become a freeway in Winnipeg is the inner ring road. Bishop Grandin Boulevard, extended west and then north to William Clement Parkway, which becomes Moray. Then extended to Sturgeon Creek rd and Centreport. From there, it runs north and connected to Chief Peguis trail, which will likely connect to Plessis and then back to Bishop.
There are a lot of missing segments to the inner ring road and many sections are not suitable for freeway upgrades unless there is a huge amount of money spent on it. There were also a lot of sections where poor choices of intersection locations will mean a lot of reorganizing of neighbourhood roads, even where there is a nice ROW for interchanges.