WINNIPEG – Many Winnipeggers feel their commute is getting worse and they’d like to see major roads widened, a new Global News-CJOB poll suggests.
Those poll results come as the Manitoba government prepares to release its five-year infrastructure plan at 9:30 a.m. Wednesday.
While most residents polled said they can get to work in less than half an hour, 42 per cent said their commute is a little bit or a lot worse than it was five years ago. Only 19 per cent said their commute was somewhat or a lot better, and 40 per cent said it’s about the same, in the Insightrix Research poll done for Global News and CJOB.
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Those surveyed were also given a variety of options for reducing traffic headaches and asked which would have the biggest impact.
More than one-third (36%) said widening major roads such as Kenaston Boulevard, St. Mary’s Road and McPhillips Street would have the greatest impact on commutes.
Almost a quarter (24%) said traffic lights that work consistently in all weather would help, and almost as many (22%) said building overpasses is the way to go.
Only nine per cent said completing a rapid transit line between the University of Manitoba and Jubilee Avenue said it would help, while 10 per cent were unsure which would work best.
The poll of 600 Winnipeg residents, done at the end of January and beginning of February, is considered accurate within 4.35 percentage points, 19 times out of 20.
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