Six Crashes in Seven Hours What's Going On Hey
Winterpeg. We built a city in the coldest place anyone has any business building a city — and it is genuinely wonderful. Good morning.
We've got some real-time data from the civic intelligence monitors this morning, and what's jumping out at me is a cluster of traffic incidents. Our monitors show six motor vehicle collisions occurred between 7:10 AM and 8:31 AM today. That's six crashes in just over an hour, hey.
### Road Conditions or Something Else?
These incidents were spread across a few different neighbourhoods: Luxton, Varennes, Glenwood, Central St. Boniface, and one just outside the city proper. The intelligence monitor flagged "road conditions" as a potential factor. It's May 26th, and we just had WFPS respond to a grass fire a few days ago on May 23rd. The weather has been a bit all over the place, like always in Winnipeg, but this cluster of accidents in such a short window is definitely something to keep an eye on.
* Six collisions reported within 7 hours.
* Timespan: 07:10 to 08:31 today.
* Impacted areas include Luxton, Varennes, and Central St. Boniface.
* "Road conditions" cited as a potential factor by the monitor.
On another note, the city is moving forward with the Arlington Bridge removal. A media release from the City of Winnipeg yesterday, May 25th at 4:21 PM, confirmed this, with another follow-up release today at 8:23 AM. This is a big one for the North End, hey, and will change a lot of commutes. We'll be watching how that project impacts traffic flow in the coming months, especially given the morning's crash data. Stay safe out there, my friends.
Rosie Fontaine, out here in Winterpeg.
My cousin and her kokum talk about these kinds of things all morning long, you can catch them live at mornings.live.