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It continues to the Main Street Bridge over the Assiniboine River, where it enters downtown and becomes Main Street. After passing through downtown, it runs along the west bank of the Red River to its northern terminus at the Winnipeg city limits, just south of the north Perimeter Highway (Manitoba Highway 101), and becomes Manitoba Highway 9.
Portage and Main is an intersection in downtown Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada, located where Portage Avenue (Route 85) and Main Street (Route 52) intersect. The corner is known as the "crossroads of Canada", due to its relative proximity to the longitudinal centre of Canada .
Garry Street: One-way, southbound: Ellice Avenue: Access from Route 57 west: Portage Avenue: 5.6: 3.5: Notre Dame Avenue (Route 57 west) / Fort Street: West end of Route 57 west / Route 85 concurrency; one-way northbound (westbound); Route 57 west turns onto Notre Dame Avenue from Portage Avenue: 5.7: 3.5: Main Street / Route 85 ends / YH ends
Route 23 is a minor arterial road connecting Main Street and the Garden City business district. The road is mainly known as Leila Avenue. There is a one-way section between the railroad crossing and Main Street where Leila Avenue is the westbound section of road, and the eastbound section becomes Partridge Avenue. The speed limit is 60 km/h (37 ...
It runs from Winnipeg (where it meets with Route 52) north to Gimli. The highway is known as Main Street between Winnipeg and Selkirk, as this is the name of the road within both of those cities, and has a suburban character as a 4-lane, mostly undivided highway with numerous residences and businesses. At Selkirk, the highway turns off to ...
One of the first bridges in Winnipeg was the Main-Norwood Bridge. It carries traffic between St. Boniface, St. Vital, and points east from Marion Street. Originally a toll bridge, it carried Winnipeg's first horse-drawn streetcars between downtown and River Avenue in the early 1880s. Osborne Street Bridge connects Osborne Village to the ...
The main route passes directly through the city of Winnipeg on city streets, entering the city from the west and continuing along Portage Avenue, Broadway, Main Street, Queen Elizabeth Way, St. Mary's Road, St. Anne's Road, and Fermor Avenue where it re-joins the Perimeter Highway (T-C 100) and continues east on TC 1. An alternate routing exits ...
The origin of the route stems from its use as a part of an old Red River ox cart trail. [4] [5]The (red river) carts left deep ruts in the soft prairie turf, so deep that the wagons tended to spread out, the right wheel of one cart travelling in the wake of the left wheel of the cart ahead; thus, the prairie trails could be as much as twenty carts wide, a phenomenon that helps explain the many ...