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Robert Galston, Winnipeg Free Press
A drawing was released this month of the Winnipeg Regional Health Authority’s future offices at Logan Avenue and Main Street, which is part of Centre Venture Development Corporation’s “cluster developments” for downtown. A 200-car parkade will adjoin the building, and up the street close to Higgins Avenue, a new surface [...]

A letter to the editor of the Winnipeg Sun by Vicki Poirier, and published on March 26, 2008 asks whether a BRT that speeds along at 80 km/h and maybe at most shaving off 5 minutes off a Univ. of Manitoba to downtown commute time will be money well spent. She then goes on to [...]

Robert W. Galston, The Rise and Sprawl
The nature of large publicly driven urban revitalization schemes in poor cities is to make the project take up as much room, and take out as much blight, as possible. Thus, 200 office workers and their parking spots take up an entire city block where a dozen buildings and [...]

One cannot care for streets they’ve never walked onRobert Galston, The Rise and Sprawl
Today, a new design for WRHA’s new office and parkade at Main and Logan was unveiled that has done what was thought to be impossible: be more visually deficient than the original conceptual drawing. The architect, Stantec, appeared to have drawn inspiration [...]

Dan Lett writes in his blog post about Sam Katz’s Trade Council, which recommends completing the Suburban Beltway pseudo-expressway for Winnipeg, and building the Western Freeway from the W.A.T.S. plan of 1968 between the Airport and the Perimeter Hwy.
He says that, d’uh, rapid transit should be a higher priority. And therefore Dan wins this week’s [...]

Apart from having the mass populace of Winnipeg getting behind a subway for Winnipeg, it is the business leaders that must begin to express strong vocal support for it.
For example, “steve a” (could that be NDP Intergovernmental Affairs Minister “Steve Ashton” we wonder), in a comment left on Free Press columnist Dan Lett’s The Sausage [...]

The Police announced this week that they will put up a traffic surveillance camera near the south span of the Osborne St. Bridge that will monitor non-bus traffic using the curbside Diamond Lane. The Diamond Lane has been in place since 1997 but has been largely ignored by the motoring public.
Spirited Kenny of The Great [...]

Robert Galston, The Uniter
The news that the first houses built in Waverly West will end up not having geothermal heat came as a surprise to no one this week. With construction set to go ahead this summer, it is clear that the giant government-led subdivision, once hailed as Winnipeg’s “suburb of tomorrow,” is shaping up [...]

If you receive a friendly e-mail from Paul Hesse, asking you to sign a petition from the Winnipeg “Rapid Transit Coalition”, please do not sign it.
The petition, which can be found here, states in item #2:
“The construction of a rapid transit system for Winnipeg, using dedicated transit ways…”
Of course we all know “transit ways” is [...]

This past Sunday afternoon, TRUWinnipeg received a disturbing e-mail from Assistant Deputy Editor Steve Pona over at the Winnipeg Free Press. In the e-mail, which was written from Steve’s Shaw account at home, he requests that TRUWinnipeg not republish full news articles anymore. Here’s the original e-mail:
Date: Sun, 02 Mar 2008 12:54:43 -0600
From: Steve Pona [...]