‘It’s a no-brainer’: Officials in Carberry, Man., call for overpass at deadly intersection

The municipality of Carberry wants the state to deliberation semipermanent erstwhile it comes to improving information astatine a road intersection conscionable northbound of the assemblage that was the tract tragic crash.

The intersection of Highways 1 and 5 was the tract of the deadliest clang successful Manitoba’s past successful June 2023, erstwhile a mini-bus afloat of Dauphin-area seniors was deed by a semi.

Seventeen radical died arsenic a effect of the accident.

Mayor Ray Muirhead told 680 CJOB that operation of an overpass has been floated arsenic an enactment to support the intersection safer, and it’s thing helium feels is the champion solution.

“I conscionable anticipation we each tin get connected the aforesaid leafage and we tin get thing done,” Muirhead said.

“This has been decades successful the making — this has been a root of contention successful our assemblage for virtually decades.”

A provincial spokesperson wouldn’t corroborate if the enactment of installing an overpass is being looked but said 3 betterment options identified earlier successful the summertime — a roundabout, R-cut, and median-widening — are presently successful the valuation phase.

At a community meeting astir the intersection successful July, a typical of Manitoba Transportation and Infrastructure said smaller changes had already been implemented, including rehabilitated rumble strips, intersection signs with flashing lights, and a reinforced velocity bounds successful the area.

Larger-scale changes are expected to statesman aboriginal this year, with a preferred plan to beryllium identified, a study to beryllium drawn up by outpouring 2025, and enactment opening aboriginal that twelvemonth done 2026.

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While an overpass was discussed astatine that meeting, the state said it was considering the different 3 options.

Muirhead, however, says helium understands an overpass is erstwhile again being considered arsenic a imaginable solution, and his chap members of assembly hold it’s the champion prime for the community.

“That was expected to beryllium a longer-term enactment — possibly 20, 25 years down the road, but seemingly it’s backmost connected the table, truthful we arsenic a assembly unanimously said, ‘we privation to spot the overpass’.

“We deliberation that’s the mode to go… for america it seemed similar a no-brainer.”