Work starts on interchange at Perimeter, Highway 59
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CONSTRUCTION is underway for the $204-million interchange at the Perimeter Highway and Highway 59 in northeast Winnipeg after years of planning.
Premier Greg Selinger, along with officials from the province’s heavy construction and trucking industries, put ceremonial shovels into the ground Thursday as large machines in the background began pushing mounds of soil.
“This allows us to be competitive,” Selinger said.
“Manitoba’s economy is growing, and investments in our transportation infrastructure will help keep it on track and continue creating more jobs.”
The project will see:
- A realignment of PTH 101 (Perimeter Highway) through the redesigned interchange.
- Future allowance for six lanes on PTH 101.
- An upgraded intersection with a traffic signal at Highway 59 and PR 202.
- Six lanes on Highway 59 between PTH 101 and PR 202.
The project also includes an active-transportation corridor and separate emergency-vehicle crossing at the Raleigh Street and Gateway Street corridor, which has been opposed by Coun. Jeff Browaty (North Kildonan), who is concerned it could lead to too much regular traffic flowing through it.
Selinger said extra traffic is not part of the project, and there would be future consultation before it would happen.
But in a statement, Browaty said he is still concerned about the crossing.
“While the province is saying that today they have no plans to open it to vehicular traffic, there would be very little stopping them from opening it in future,” Browaty said.
“It’s not too late to scrub this plan, save taxpayer dollars and build an active-transportation-only overpass crossing the Perimeter.”
Meanwhile, Chris Lorenc, president of the Manitoba Heavy Construction Association, praised the building of the new interchange, saying one in five jobs in this province is linked to trade and exports.
Lorenc said all the province’s recent highway improvements help keep trade flowing.
“They help sustain the 240,000 jobs that are sustained by trade,” he said.
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