Off The Rails
Rocky road for bridge’s future
4 minute read Saturday, Feb. 23, 2013The deteriorating condition of the Arlington Bridge has sparked a renewed call to move the Canadian Pacific Railway yards.
On Friday, the city released a report that reveals the bridge is "functionally obsolete" and cannot be fully rehabilitated.
The city has spent $15 million to repair the bridge in the last decade because the structural steel on an approach ramp has deteriorated.
The city will close the overpass for six weeks in July and August when the bridge deck undergoes extensive repairs.
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Rail yard redevelopment would bring density, investment and revenue
5 minute read Preview Monday, Aug. 20, 2012Ideas at the News Café rail summit
3 minute video Preview Monday, Feb. 4, 2013Local ideas for rail change
4 minute read Preview Tuesday, Aug. 7, 2012Your wishlist: Rail yard proposals from our design summit
1 minute read Preview Monday, Aug. 6, 2012Summit comes up with creative ideas to redevelop CP Rail’s central yards
3 minute read Preview Wednesday, Aug. 1, 2012Your submissions: Readers’ visions for the rail yards
2 minute read Preview Monday, Jul. 30, 2012Plan sees CP yards as rail estate
4 minute read Preview Monday, Jul. 30, 2012North Enders have their say
5 minute read Preview Monday, Jul. 23, 2012New CP railway boss a mover
4 minute read Preview Saturday, Jul. 21, 2012Remediating old rail yards cheaper, easier than you think
6 minute read Preview Monday, Jul. 16, 2012A lack of locomotivation
7 minute read Preview Saturday, Jul. 14, 2012A move to stop sprawl
1 minute read Friday, Jul. 13, 2012Re: Better ways to fight poverty than moving CP yards (July 11). While I agree with Jim Silver's argument that relocating the CP rail yards is not the best way to solve poverty in Winnipeg's inner city, relocating the rail yards, nevertheless, has been the objective of many urban and city planners since the 1960s.
Relocating the yards has more to do with urban planning and the goal to stopping urban sprawl. Removing the CP rail yards would open up the land for commercial and residential development, including new schools and recreational facilities in the inner city.
NICK TERNETTE
There’s another option
1 minute read Tuesday, Jul. 10, 2012"Bridge over troubled yards," the sub-headline over your July 7 story about relocating the CP rail yards, The right track for renewal?, might suggest the solution. Don't relocate the yards; build over them. Or at least over portions of them.
Many cities in North America have undertaken significant urban renewal by reviewing all their options. An example was "the big dig" in downtown Boston, where a major roadway was moved underground and the city built over it.
In this situation, we are not going to move the railway tracks underground. But why not build a huge platform above the tracks and construct housing, parks, light-industrial-use structures above it?
CP won’t sell yards, Katz says
6 minute read Preview Monday, Jul. 9, 2012Timeline: Bridge over troubled yards
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