The TransCanada between Brandon and Sidney was all right in 2004 too. I took this photo on a 600K randonnee I rode that year.



It was the bit between there and Portage La Prairie that was pretty bad ... so bad, in fact, that the police stopped us and told us to ride on the other side of the road, facing the traffic, because there was something of a shoulder on that side of the road. They informed us that riding on that side of the road was illegal, and chances are we'd be stopped by other police officers but if we were, we were to give them some details so that everyone was on the same page.

And beyond Winnipeg to the Manitoba/Ontario border, it was even worse.