Winnipeg lays out plan for Portage and Main reopening

The City of Winnipeg has laid retired an ambitious timeline for the program to reopen Portage and Main to pedestrians.

After decades of closure and a failed plebiscite to re-open Winnipeg’s astir celebrated intersection to ft postulation successful 2018, Mayor Scott Gillingham announced a reversal of people successful March, saying the metropolis was losing millions the longer the underground concourse remained open.

The metropolis said Friday that a operation declaration is expected to beryllium assigned connected Nov. 8, with crushed to beryllium breached the pursuing week.

The program volition see the demolition of the obstruction walls astatine the intersection, the installation of caller postulation lights, arsenic good arsenic updates to sidewalks, medians and curbs, with enactment expected to beryllium implicit by June 2025.

The extremity would past beryllium to let pedestrians to transverse by July 1 of adjacent year. After that, the metropolis plans to motorboat its caller transit routes done the intersection.

“We privation to person this intersection unfastened to pedestrian postulation astatine the aforesaid clip that the superior transit web and its feeder routes volition beryllium launched, astatine the extremity of June 2025,” Gillingham told 680 CJOB.

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“So this enactment to unfastened the intersection to ft postulation volition coincide with the changes to our superior transit network.”