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I’ve been to Toronto four times since 2000. It’s my favourite cities in Canada.
Part of the process of getting rail rapid transit into a city is educational in nature. That’s one of the purposes of this website. I sometimes get the sense that some people who state that Winnipeg doesn’t need rapid transit need to [...]

James Kunstler visited Winnipeg in early 2007, and took a short tour of our city. He doesn’t think that the Museum of Human Rights looks all that great.
Original link from Kunstler.com website:
http://www.kunstler.com/eyesore_200703.html
Here’s a humdinger: a model of Canada’s new Museum of Human Rights in Winnipeg. Ever been to Winnipeg? It’s an entire city built to [...]

The federal Conservative government announced yesterday that it would contribute $697 million to the 8.8-kilometre expansion of Toronto’s Spadina subway line out to York University.
From the Toronto Star:
Prime Minister Stephen Harper and Premier Dalton McGuinty will announce next week that the federal government will pump $697 million into the plan to extend the Spadina subway [...]

Here is a photo of a now-vintage streetcar which the few North American cities that kept (some of) their streetcar lines were purchasing in the early-to-mid-1950s–right around the time that Winnipeg did away with streetcars entirely. What is interesting for Winnipeggers about the car in this photo, is the colors: similar to Winnipeg’s famous transit [...]