TRUWinnipeg.org

Rumour in the local blogosphere has it that Mayor Katz will make an announcement regarding rapid transit for Winnipeg sometime after July 31st.
And the possible leaked information points to rail transit as the mode that Winnipeg will choose to build in the next 5 years, as PolicyFrog has said in his post:
For what it’s worth, [...]

When a new rapid transit line is opened to the public, the transit authority will re-route buses to serve the new rapid transit stations. The term for this is bus-rail integration.
The major benefit is to shorten the length of routes.
For example it will longer be necessary or desired for the 64 Lindenwoods Express, the 65 [...]

The other rapid transit group, the “Coalition”, claims to have the support of 18 groups — NGOs and some BIZ groups:

Sierra Club of Winnipeg
Resource Conservation of Mantoba
Social Planning Council of Winnipeg
Climate Change Connection
West End BIZ
Osborne Village BIZ
Downtown Winnipeg BIZ
University of Winnipeg
Canadian Mennonite University
Planners Network Manitoba
Manitoba Audio Recording Association (mentioned 2x in their list)
Urban Shaman Contemporary [...]

City must face reality of rapid transit
Jeff Lowe, Winnipeg Free Press
July 13, 2008
As one who has written extensively on the subject, it has been difficult to fend off the frustration one feels at the small-town tone the “debate” over rapid transit in our city has assumed.
The reportage has been framed as if the only “realistic” [...]

This video clip was broadcast on Treehouse Tv (I can tell by the logo at the bottom right corner).
It shows the operation of both the TTC subway and the TTC streetcar (regular, and articulated)…

At 2:50 into the video clip the narrator says “this is a tranfer station. It’s always busy”. That must be Bloor-Yonge hub [...]

Rob Dyck, who identifies himself as part of the Elmwood Liberals, designed his own rapid transit system for the metropolitan Winnipeg area. Rob is part of the federal Liberal of Canada (Manitoba) executive.
Thread didn’t come up in the first 3 or 4 pages when searching “rapid transit Winnipeg”, though I believe the reason for that [...]

The video below is from Line 1 in Paris, France. Every 30 seconds during rush hour a new train arrives at La Defence Station, where several hundred people get off the train at a time.

So after the groundwater is taken out of the subway tunnels, what to do with it?

Well, this afternoon I read that some of it is used to fill the fountains at Buckingham Palace Park in London England.
http://www.ens-newswire.com/ens/jan2001/2001-01-25-10.asp
London Turns Rising Groundwater Into Liquid Asset
LONDON, United Kingdom, January 25, 2001 (ENS) - Engineers are finding innovative uses [...]

Tunnel Business Magazine
Tunnels & Tunnelling International - subscription website
Wikipedia - Tunnel
Canada Line (Vancouver) - Cut and Cover Construction

During The Great Canadian Talk Show dual interview that Dallas and I had with Marty Gold on Tuesday a caller had brought up the issue of the rising water table.
They said that our water table has risen 12 metres in the past 40 years, and that would make going to an underground subway for Winnipeg [...]