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Ahmed Shalaby, a civil engineering professor at the University of Manitoba, says under current design standards, a highway intersection would have a median wide enough for a truck and a stop sign. (Travis Golby/CBC)

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By today’s standards, an intersection like the one at Highway 5 and the Trans-Canada would be built with a median wide enough to fit a truck and have a stop sign, said Ahmed Shalaby, a professor of civil engineering at the University of Manitoba.

That gives a driver a safer way to cross the intersection, allowing them to safely stop at the median after crossing the first lanes of traffic.

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