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Post by jetsorbust on Oct 11, 2013 12:05:03 GMT -6
Narrow minded thinking on our infrastructure has screwed all our main arteries up. I teach in Transcona and used to come down Nairn/Regent... what a nightmare. Then became more of a nightmare when the city decided to close one lane during rush hour just for buses. Brilliant! No major city in the world would have a traffic light at Lag and Regent. Especially when Regent has a light at Panet, Lag, Stapon then Rougeau. So gross. Don't even get me started on how messed up Lag and Bishop and Route 90 is. Terrible designs. With the addition of Chief Peguis Trail and the development at Headmaster there is now a light at the Perimeter, Headmaster, Springfield, Chief Peguis and Grassie... and still only two lanes of traffic. Head down Lag on a Friday at 4:00, or on a Sunday during Cabin/camping season and good luck. I use the North Perimeter quite a bit and nevermind lights on the Perimeter (at Pipeline) I hit a train twice this week between McPhillips and Main on the North Perimeter. 100-110 km/h to a screeching stop. My wife can't stand me constantly complaining about our roadways so happy I can vent here. YES YES OH GOD YES! I live in Transcona and the bus lanes that opened a couple years ago (reducing 3 lanes to 2) are absolutely ridiculous. I phoned my councillor (Wyatt, who also was in charge of roadways or whatever at the time) and complained, and tried to get others to as well but people are too stupid and lazy to care! Anyways, the diamond lanes there are a joke. Traffic got way worse over night when they were put in, and there is simply not enough bus traffic to justify it. At most 15 buses go down regent an hour - how the hell does that mean they should get a whole lane?! And yes, the fact that they keep putting up more traffic lights on the perimeter and Lagimodiere is ridiculous. Sure our traffic isn't that bad, but that's just because we're a relatively small city that is spread out so the problems don't seem as bad as they are. The actual traffic planning is horrendously terrible.
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Post by Guardian on Oct 11, 2013 12:12:09 GMT -6
It's much worse in Calgary and Edmonton. A someone who used to live in Calgary, I agree! Winnipeg could really use a "Deerfoot Trail" like highway running north-south and east west.
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Post by phillymike on Oct 11, 2013 12:20:31 GMT -6
More mini traffic circles!!! That'll fix everything!
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Post by phillymike on Oct 11, 2013 14:47:53 GMT -6
And while we're at it: DAMN those people in parking lots that do a half shuffle run when they are walking in front of a moving vehicle!! RUN!!!! GET OUT OF MY WAY!!!GET OUT OF MY WAY ASAP!!!! I'VE GOT IMPORTANT crap TO DO!!!!
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Post by jetsfan85 on Oct 11, 2013 20:32:42 GMT -6
Narrow minded thinking on our infrastructure has screwed all our main arteries up. I teach in Transcona and used to come down Nairn/Regent... what a nightmare. Then became more of a nightmare when the city decided to close one lane during rush hour just for buses. Brilliant! No major city in the world would have a traffic light at Lag and Regent. Especially when Regent has a light at Panet, Lag, Stapon then Rougeau. So gross. Don't even get me started on how messed up Lag and Bishop and Route 90 is. Terrible designs. With the addition of Chief Peguis Trail and the development at Headmaster there is now a light at the Perimeter, Headmaster, Springfield, Chief Peguis and Grassie... and still only two lanes of traffic. Head down Lag on a Friday at 4:00, or on a Sunday during Cabin/camping season and good luck. I use the North Perimeter quite a bit and nevermind lights on the Perimeter (at Pipeline) I hit a train twice this week between McPhillips and Main on the North Perimeter. 100-110 km/h to a screeching stop. My wife can't stand me constantly complaining about our roadways so happy I can vent here. 100% agree with you. and to the rest of you saying its worse in other cities.. I say A- other cities at least have proper interchanges, freeways, merges, BTW WHY CANT WPG PPL LEARN TO MERGE IN MERGE LANES.. YOU DONT FRICKIN STOP!!! and B- I dont care about other cities and how bad it is..I care about making Winnipeg better. lol
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Post by The Unknown Poster on Oct 16, 2013 3:26:47 GMT -6
Winnipeggers are generally quite ignorant to traffic laws.
All Winnipeggers treat yield signs like stop signs. All Winnipeggers are baffled by round abouts. All Winnipeggers consider the speed limit to be a mild suggestion. All Winnipeggers believe a yellow light means speed up or, if there is a red light camera, slam on your breaks. All Winnipeggers believe if the car in the Kane beside you is going 10-20 km below the speed limit they should match that speed to prevent anyone getting passed.
There are many more I am sure.
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Post by grumpy on Oct 16, 2013 5:48:46 GMT -6
Change "all Winnipeggers" to "all drivers"... Exaggerate much? In my experience, most drivers in Winnipeg drive just fine. Like all drivers everywhere, there are exceptions. To paint them all as bad as has been done here is absurd.
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Post by jetsorbust on Oct 16, 2013 7:40:55 GMT -6
Change "all Winnipeggers" to "all drivers"... Exaggerate much? In my experience, most drivers in Winnipeg drive just fine. Like all drivers everywhere, there are exceptions. To paint them all as bad as has been done here is absurd. I saw a report on the news a couple years ago, it was a study done on common misconceptions or something to that effect. It turns out one of the most commonly held beliefs in North America is that "my city" has terrible drivers. Doesn't matter what city you live in, everyone thinks people from their locale suck at driving.
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Post by jval07 on Oct 16, 2013 8:06:31 GMT -6
One other piece of awesomeness in our city... 9 million crosswalks. Some controlled, some not (which nobody really knows what to do at) and some of these (both controlled and uncontrolled) stretch across 6 lanes of traffic. Here's an idea... instead of crosswalks on main arteries, how about using the 9 billion traffic light intersections we have to cross.
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Post by The Unknown Poster on Oct 16, 2013 12:57:30 GMT -6
Yes. All Winnipeggers stand at the crosswalk and don't push the button. Hey morons, you have to push it on both sides.
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Post by phillymike on Oct 16, 2013 16:44:22 GMT -6
Change "all Winnipeggers" to "all drivers"... Exaggerate much? In my experience, most drivers in Winnipeg drive just fine. Like all drivers everywhere, there are exceptions. To paint them all as bad as has been done here is absurd. I saw a report on the news a couple years ago, it was a study done on common misconceptions or something to that effect. It turns out one of the most commonly held beliefs in North America is that "my city" has terrible drivers. Doesn't matter what city you live in, everyone thinks people from their locale suck at driving. Seeing as that is the case, let's just say all drivers are horrible drivers! Except the person posting about how horrible every driver is. Every driver except Brad Keslowski! He's a good driver!, And BJ from BJ and the Bear! He was an OK driver, not excellent, not good, just OK, but not horrible!
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Post by jetsfan85 on Oct 16, 2013 23:24:29 GMT -6
I emailed my councillor (winnipeg..not emotional haha) about traffic..many of you should do the same. Even if it doesn't fix things right away doesn't hurt to let them know. Email sammy too.
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Post by pachman40 on Oct 17, 2013 13:01:49 GMT -6
I know the perimeter has been mentioned already, but how in the blue hell do they spend millions to "improve" the intersection at Dugald and the Perimeter, realigning the perimeter's lanes and finally making it 2 lanes each way all the way around the perimeter and THEY FRIGGIN JUST MOVE THE TRAFFIC LIGHT OVER! The floodway bridge was replaced to the east as part of the "floodway expansion", do you think anybody would look at the bigger picture where these two independent projects would be viewed together and an overpass built at the same time? The railway tracks were no excuse, they could simply build the identical interchange as they have at Inkster/Perimeter or Wilkes/Perimeter. Boggles my mind.
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Post by Deleted on Oct 17, 2013 17:02:23 GMT -6
What can we do? toll the perimeter? i used to drive around the perimeter for fun 15 years ago, haha Jets were gone, and now its way busier. We need 3 lanes around now, no lights, direct routes from the inner part of the city. How does this get paid for in our have not province? How do we change it now? not 20 years from now? Red Light District and first province to legalize pot, that's how!,all joking aside, toll boths would be cool.
People confuse yeilds and merges, that is the main problem. And drivers with cars that have the plates that start with A or B. watch out for 80% of those F.r's . Old school winnipeg drivers stuck in the 70's. I've delivered Pizza for a while, now pull trailers...don't get me started on that one. idiots!
Taking the bus to games is good though.
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Post by TheDeuce on Oct 18, 2013 8:58:14 GMT -6
Toll booths?
Guys, the province and city have more than enough revenue to maintain our roads. They grossly mismanage that revenue and spend the roads money on a multitude of inappropriate expenditures.
Winnipeg and Manitoba don't have a revenue problem. They have an expenditure problem.
FFS a toll road is another tax. And we don't need more effen taxes.
m.
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