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Manitoba freeways?
texaskdog:
--- Quote from: Road Hog on August 28, 2012, 03:49:32 PM ---Looks like the 101 was built for the benefit of thru traffic, which is surprising considering Winnipeg is a destination city as the provincial capital and holds more than half of Manitoba's population. There cannot be that much cross-continent traffic on TCH-1; otherwise it would be freeway all the way.
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but it doesnt gently swerve around town. It makes a long loop. Why does it have to head North to Headingley instead of NW?
dmuzika:
--- Quote from: mp_quadrillion ---The bypass (TCH-101) is being upgraded in several spots to a freeway. It appears, as many have stated, too far out to be very useful to locals. Development just doesn't happen the way in Canada as it does in the United States. However, I wouldn't wish the city route on any trucker hauling turnpike doubles (nearly 40m total length) across the province.
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Slight correction, the Perimeter Hwy is signed as MB 101 north of TCH 1 and TCH 100 south of TCH 1; TCH 100 is the official Trans Canada Highway bypass route.
--- Quote from: Road Hog ---Looks like the 101 was built for the benefit of thru traffic, which is surprising considering Winnipeg is a destination city as the provincial capital and holds more than half of Manitoba's population. There cannot be that much cross-continent traffic on TCH-1; otherwise it would be freeway all the way.
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At this point people would probably be happy with a 4 lane divided highway the whole way, however your right in that there isn't enough traffic to warrent a freeway across Canada. The MB 101/59 interchange needs to be desperatly upgraded, however as a first stage of improvements it would be good to have TCH 100 upgraded to a freeway as it is the E-W bypass as well as connections with MB 75 which becomes I-29. TCH 1 outside of the Perimeter Hwy should also be upgraded to a freeway in the greater Winnipeg area.
There were grander freeway plans for Winnipeg, unfortunatly most did not materialize, //www.youtube.com/watch?v=budEtFBCVok
Stephane Dumas:
Sorry to unbury that thread from the grave. I know it's not a grander freeway plan but there's still a 2-lane gap of TCH-1 close to the Ontario border who'll be finally twinned.
https://winnipeg.ctvnews.ca/manitoba-to-move-forward-with-trans-canada-highway-twinning-project-1.6051824
--- Quote ---Manitoba's premier has committed to twinning the Trans-Canada Highway between Manitoba and Ontario, according to a letter she sent to the family of the victims of a deadly crash.
In a letter obtained by CTV News, Premier Heather Stefanson said the province will soon tender and award contracts to engineers for conceptual and functional design studies for the first phase of the twinning project.
"Twinning the Highway will significantly improve safety for motorists, and our government is committed to getting the job done," Stefanson's letter, which was sent on Wednesday, reads.
The letter was in response to Peter Lugli, who has been advocating for the twinning since his brother Mark and nephew Jacob died in a horrific crash in 2019. The father and son had been driving from their home in Dryden to a golf tournament in Selkirk along a busy and undivided section of the Trans-Canada.
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andrepoiy:
--- Quote from: Stephane Dumas on September 24, 2022, 09:38:46 PM ---Sorry to unbury that thread from the grave. I know it's not a grander freeway plan but there's still a 2-lane gap of TCH-1 close to the Ontario border who'll be finally twinned.
https://winnipeg.ctvnews.ca/manitoba-to-move-forward-with-trans-canada-highway-twinning-project-1.6051824
--- Quote ---Manitoba's premier has committed to twinning the Trans-Canada Highway between Manitoba and Ontario, according to a letter she sent to the family of the victims of a deadly crash.
In a letter obtained by CTV News, Premier Heather Stefanson said the province will soon tender and award contracts to engineers for conceptual and functional design studies for the first phase of the twinning project.
"Twinning the Highway will significantly improve safety for motorists, and our government is committed to getting the job done," Stefanson's letter, which was sent on Wednesday, reads.
The letter was in response to Peter Lugli, who has been advocating for the twinning since his brother Mark and nephew Jacob died in a horrific crash in 2019. The father and son had been driving from their home in Dryden to a golf tournament in Selkirk along a busy and undivided section of the Trans-Canada.
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I highly doubt Ontario will twin Hwy 17 on its side though, at least in the near future.
Avalanchez71:
--- Quote from: mp_quadrillion on August 28, 2012, 12:58:14 PM ---I visited the Prairies last summer for about a week.
The TCH (TCH-1) through urban Winnipeg surprised me. The level of urbanisation and traffic seemed to rival parts of metro New York, and often the right-of-way was too narrow for comfort. Maybe it was just the incredible contrast from the quietness of everywhere else in the province!
The bypass (TCH-101TCH-100/MB-101 rte peripherique) is being upgraded in several spots to a freeway. It appears, as many have stated, too far out to be very useful to locals. Development just doesn't happen the way in Canada as it does in the United States. However, I wouldn't wish the city route on any trucker hauling turnpike doubles (nearly 40m total length) across the province.
Also: Portage (to the west of Winnipeg) appears to be upgrading its bypass; it may be a freeway or mostly-freeway sometime soon.
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Canadians tend to be more communal than Americans. They tend to build apartments and villas/townhomes in places Americans would build single family homes. Also Canadians also don't seem to develop housing outside the cities as much as Americans seem to.
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