Originally Posted by
Roody
Thanks for the explanation. I was also looking at a map of Winnipeg, which you mentioned earlier. The main streets do radiate like spokes from the downtown. It looks like there are three or four different grid areas, each aligned on a different directional axis. Weird! Was it planned this way, or just spring up? It looks, from the map, like Winnipeg could have arisen from three different towns that merged together.
It sprang up that way ... and was several little towns, villages, municipalities or whatever you want to call them.
Winnipeg itself was built on the junction of the Red River and Assiniboine River, and I'd guess that all the other little villages around just took the quickest, most direct route to Winnipeg, and that's how the roads developed like spokes.
http://winnipeg.ca/Services/CityLife...calProfile.stm
"In 1972, the unified City of Winnipeg was created by amalgamating the following 13 municipalities, towns and cities:"
And then it lists the 13 municipalities, towns and cities.