CentrePort Info Session TOMORROW

[Anders Swanson]

Sorry for the short notice. Just received this today.

This project, if it goes ahead, will have a significant effect on active transportation both within it and for the rest of the city. Here is the text, copied and pasted from the invitation that some of you, as residents of the neighbouring areas, may have received in the mail. 

Also, I believe Bike to the future may be planning to develop a subcommittee that will address the cycling impacts of and infrastructure inclusion in this project. If this is of interest to you, contact them at con...@biketothefuture.org. 

Anders

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CentrePort Canada Way

Information Session

You are invited to an upcoming information session for the CentrePort Canada Way connecting

roads project. CentrePort Canada Way, originally announced in the spring of 2009, will be the

main transportation link through the new inland port, called CentrePort Canada. This road will

connect a new Perimeter Highway interchange with Inkster Boulevard, including a new CPR

overpass. The information session will illustrate options Manitoba Infrastructure and

Transportation is considering, including local roadway connections and will be held:

When: Wednesday, December 8, 2010 from 4 p.m. to 8 p.m.

Where: Assiniboia Downs – Finish Line Banquet Room

3975 Portage Avenue, Winnipeg

What is CentrePort Canada Way? What is the CentrePort Canada Initiative?

CentrePort Canada is North America’s new inland port with the

vision to become Canada’s centre for global trade. Inland ports are

a logistics centre for receiving, processing, storing, trans-loading and

distributing domestic and international cargo and are located inland,

away from coastal ports. Inland ports can include value added

manufacturing and processing of goods, prior to distribution.

Successful ports are served by major roadways, multiple rail

companies, and often an airport. Winnipeg meets all these

requirements, has an international airport and its location in the

centre of Canada and along the Mid-Continent Trade Corridor make

it an ideal location for an inland port. The focal point of CentrePort

Canada is a 20,000 acre development zone, inside the Perimeter

Highway, north of Saskatchewan Avenue and west of Route 90.

CentrePort Canada Way is to be the central roadway “spine” of the

CentrePort Canada development zone. The roadway is being built

to provide an improved, time-saving connection, between Route 90

and the Perimeter Highway while servicing the CentrePort Canada

lands. This new road is also a link in the Asia Pacific Gateway

Corridor, via the Trans-Canada Highway, connecting the ports of the

Pacific Coast to the rest of Canada.

Please contact hwypl...@gov.mb.ca or 945-3660, if you have any questions or require further

details.