WINNIPEG — Getting in and out of events at Investors Group Field should be easier by this time next year.
The city hopes to have several components of the bus rapid transit system finished by then.
They include the rapid transit corridor around IGF and a new station with a bus loop that is connected to the stadium by a pedestrian ramp.
“The structure itself ties into the concourse level outside of gate four at IGF and so it’ll be above grade tying into a platform in the station where people can go east and west to load down to where we will have 13 bus routes feeding that station,” said Jesse Crowder, project manager with the city of Winnipeg.
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Crowder was a among a team of officials from the city and the construction company who showcased the newest bus rapid transit project plans at an event in Fort Richmond on Tuesday afternoon.
Several weeks ago, the city announced they had knocked $120 million off the price tag of the project through a series of innovations.
Three changes in particular were cited as reasons for the massive savings. Two involved building overpasses instead of underpasses for active transportation routes and one involved moving an active transportation route to avoid interfering with a rail line.
Those changes were also on display Tuesday afternoon for dozens of people who came to see the newest drawings, some of whom had major concerns about what the project was going to do to their neighborhood and properties.
The work around IGF is expected to be completed by July while the entire second phase of the southwest rapid transit project should be completed by the fall of 2019.
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