One of the most interesting areas of Winnipeg is confined to just one street - Kingston Crescent. It is a narrow "teardrop" piece of St Vital (MLS area 2C) surrounded on three sides by the Red River. In fact, if we had let the river do its natural thing, it would have cut a new channel through the narrowest part of the crescent and left an oxbow lake to the west. But "we" stepped in and have been shoring up the banks to prevent the erosion that would have lead to the formation of the new lake - (Manitoba - 100,001 lakes!)
Today, the Elm Park Bridge above, is a footbridge across to Jubilee Avenue and The BDI (Bridge Drive In). When I was a kid it was one of the city's narrowest bridges open to traffic and like the Disraeli, had a metal grid deck that hummed as the tires rolled across it.
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