WINNIPEG — There are only a half-dozen homes on Court Avenue, yet the number of vehicles using it daily create so much dust, Jeff Streilein wears a mask whenever he mows his lawn.
“It chokes you,” said Streilein, “the cars are going so fast it’s like a highway. This is the highway to hell.”
Court Avenue runs between Pipeline Road and McPhillips Street and has never been paved. The dirt stretch runs just seven hundred meters long but connects Amber Trails subdivision with shops on McPhillips. As a result it can see as many as one hundred cars in a single hour. The homes on it were there before the expansion at one end, and shops and Walmart at the other and say the volume of traffic never used to be as bad.
Julie Argo has lived on Court Avenue for 13 years and says she never leaves her windows open in summer, and never sits out front.
Homeowners aren’t the only ones complaining. Across the street is a row of condos on Leila Avenue. Beverly Laggo struggles with an allergy to dust and says the volume of traffic on a dry day keeps her indoors.
“I woke up with a migraine,” said Laggo.
Her husband Gerald says he has called 311 every summer, for years.
“I don’t care if they pave it, I just want dust-control.”
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