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Winnipeg's traffic signal branch responds to allegations of inconsistent and unnecessary work projects

Winnipeg's traffic signal branch responds to allegations of inconsistent and unnecessary work projects

CTV
Friday, March 11, 2022 5:04 AM GMT

Staff from the City of Winnipeg’s public works department responded Thursday to an independent researcher’s allegations of frivolous projects being completed within traffic signals branch, saying there’s an explanation for all the work they do.

Staff from the City of Winnipeg’s public works department responded Thursday to an independent researcher’s allegations of frivolous projects being completed within traffic signals branch, saying there’s an explanation for all the work they do.

Christian Sweryda, a second year law student and Winnipeg School Division employee, told a special meeting of the city’s finance committee he has studied hundreds of intersections and has documented numerous examples of traffic signals and poles being changed out unnecessarily.

“Poles aren’t moving towards or closer to the intersection it’s just different from however it was,” Sweryda told councillors. “The only pattern that really exists is how ever an intersection’s built, it will be changed.”

Using a series of images from Google Street View images captured over the past several years and his own photographs, Sweryda estimates he’s conducted nearly 1,000 hours of research on the design and placement of traffic signals and poles at hundreds of city intersections.

Sweryda said so far he’s studied 77 per cent of Winnipeg's 681 signalled intersections.

In a public presentation to city councillors who sit on the finance committee, Sweryda said he’s found inconsistencies in the standards and practices of the Traffic Signals Branch within the Public Works Department.

“Poles that are on the left side will go to the right side. Poles that are on the right side will go to the left side,” Sweryda said. “There’s no uniform direction as to how these poles are being changed or these intersections are being changed or being rebuilt — and in many cases infrastructure that’s only a few years old is being changed.”

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