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Another fan of our website speaks out. This one from ‘Jim Cotton’ of PITT:

Subway system only way to go for Winnipeg
http://www.winnipegsun.com/News/Winnipeg/2008/06/14/5874956-sun.html
When will they stop dinking around with transit ?
Go big , or go home. They need to build a subway system in Winnipeg. It will not be cheap. But it will environmentally friendly, warm , [...]

Jacksonville eyes Orlando “Bus Rapid Tragedy”
For whatever reason, consultants continue to promote this system as good example of what Adams could resemble if they had their way with it. Today, Metro Jacksonville will take you on a visual tour of this system to show why Bus Rapid Tragedy (BRT) planners and consultants continue to remain [...]

The BRT lobby, which largely consists of the cycling lobby, likes to mention that a “pro” of bus rapid transit is to have a “bike path” alongside the bus freeway.
However, in cities with “real” rapid transit (BRT isn’t rapid), the passenger with a bike can roll his or her bike onto the transit vehicle itself, [...]

Today’s story in the Winnipeg Sun says that Winnipeg Transit’s testing of a diesel-powered “electric” articulated bus last Winter has proven to be a complete and total utter FLOP.
Despite TRU Winnipeggers and other independent Winnipeg journalists saying so, and despite evidence suggesting that artic. buses are not suitable for Winnipeg, it took a winter [...]

Entrance to subway station (built 1995) in Bilbao, Spain (metro population 950k):