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Manitoba freeways?
andrepoiy:
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--- 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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Not sure if we're really more communal. I can only speak for Ontario and Quebec, since those are the only two provinces I have lived in, but in Ontario, a typical suburban community is still majority single-family homes, with a bit of townhomes and semi-detached homes mixed in. There might be apartment buildings along the arterial road but otherwise the zoning still prefers single-family housing.
Quebec is a completely story though, with a lot less single-family homes.
Rothman:
Whenever someone claims the US has too many single-family homes, I think of DC. Suburban DC is flooded with apartment complexes.
froggie:
--- Quote from: Rothman on September 25, 2022, 11:47:40 PM ---Whenever someone claims the US has too many single-family homes, I think of DC. Suburban DC is flooded with apartment complexes.
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And heavily flooded with SFH, too, even inside the Beltway.
Rothman:
--- Quote from: froggie on September 26, 2022, 08:14:00 AM ---
--- Quote from: Rothman on September 25, 2022, 11:47:40 PM ---Whenever someone claims the US has too many single-family homes, I think of DC. Suburban DC is flooded with apartment complexes.
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And heavily flooded with SFH, too, even inside the Beltway.
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Eh, it's a good mix.
webny99:
--- 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
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Great to see this happening. That region is a major summer destination for the Winnipeg area even though it's almost 2 hours away. I drove that segment a few years ago on a Sunday afternoon and remember thinking it was the busiest two-lane road I had ever seen. It was basically a non-stop wall of traffic heading WB back towards Winnipeg, must have been at least 2-3 miles without a gap in traffic.
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