Winnipeg Route 85
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Route 85 is a city route in the Canadian city of Winnipeg, Manitoba. Locally known as Portage Avenue, it runs from the Perimeter Highway (Highways 100/101) to Portage and Main (Route 52).
The route is one of the first and most important roads in Winnipeg. Most of the route is multiplexed with Highway 1/Trans-Canada Highway, and entirely by Yellowhead Highway. At Broadway Highway 1 bears right. The speed limit along the route is 60 km/h, and 50 km/h in the downtown area. The most notable landmark that it passes by is Portage and Main, playing a major role in Winnipeg history.
Route 85 has many important uses, including in which many transit buses travel along here. This is also an important connector for the airport and the Polo Park business area, as well as the Canad Inns Stadium. The route is an important route for most travellers (who prefer not to use the Perimeter Highway).
The origin of the route stems from its use as a part of an old Red River ox cart trail. An excerpt from the book The National Dream by Pierre Berton states regarding it: "The (red river) carts left deep ruts in the soft prairie turf, so deep that the wagons tended to spread out, the right wheel of one cart travelling in the wake of the left wheel of the cart ahead; thus, the prairie trails could be as much as twenty carts wide, a phenomenon that helps explain the broad streets of some of the pioneer towns. Portage Avenue in Winnipeg, the widest thoroughfare in Canada, is actually part of the old trail that led west to Portage la Prairie."
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