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Originally Posted by ue
A funny thing about Winnipeg is that it is basically flat as a pancake and yet is harder to get around than Edmonton. Winnipeggers have a tendency to kneecap themselves. The Downtown Rail Yards are a barrier for the North End in a similar way that the North Shore is cut off naturally from Vancouver. There are huge river-facing sections of the city essentially cut off from each other because despite not having Calgary's hills, Edmonton's valleys, or Vancouver's water, Winnipeg just doesn't build bridges, especially if it isn't a highway or for accessing downtown. Winnipeg isn't as polycentric as Edmonton, but it is more so than Calgary, and a lot of its road network comprises of mega-stroads funnelling people from their area of the city either towards the core or the country while the neighbourhood streets don't talk to each other across these stroads because Winnipeg was a dozen different cities that didn't talk to each other fully until 1972.
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Canada tends to be pretty bad for infrastructure like this in general. We will put up with horrible traffic snarls for decades instead of building small-ish bridges that would irk 20 homeowners. This is one of those ways in which I think Canada can actually be pretty unfair and unequal.
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