Ripto the most useful crossing between the north end and the west end. Also to the narrowest and most prone to closures bridge in wpg.
Winnipeg cannot afford to maintain its existing infrastructure, there just isn’t enough money. The city spent decades growing and sprawling not able to see that this was the future it was building to.
The city spent decades growing and sprawling
I lived there for a little bit and saw that obvious glaring issue but also the fact that there isnt an easy way to fix it.
There was tons of development that kept happening just outside city limits where the city had no control over development. Then every few years the boundaries of the city would be expanded to include the new development and they’d get hooked into city sewer + water at that point.
Also going on at the time I was there (pre-pandemic) the real estate market was going crazy so any pressure to reduce the sprawl may not have gone over well if the politicians even saw a problem happening.
Also also, I don’t know how true this part is, but locals would tell me about the rampant corruption in infrastructure projects where even after suspected fraud was exposed, nothing changed. The road/infrastructure projects near me at the time seemed crazy expensive, poorly thought out, and prone to failure. Mainly, concrete for every fucking road ever. The concrete would crack and fail in a few years then they would do concrete again.
That city blew my fucking mind.
They could proportionally tax the wealthy instead of giving free money and handouts to the richest people.
