Archive for September, 2008
Worst mistake in city’s history: Poverty capital opts for ghetto busway
Here are 11 facts regarding the $138+million, 3.5km dedicated busway that was recently announced.
1. Buses are not rapid transit. Nor can they ever be. Rapid transit, by definition, involves rail vehicles running on their own right-of-way—above or below the ground. In the strictest sense, most LRT systems are not even rapid transit, but streetcar [...]
Posted: September 13th, 2008 under Downtown Revitalization, Infrastructure, Transit, Urban Studies.
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Some Questions…And What You’re Really Getting
In response to today’s announcement that the $138 Million Southern and SouthEast Freeways Southwest Transit Corridor will be built by about 2011/2012, I have this to say.
There are several questions.
Why build BRT and LRT later when Katz himself, in a meeting with TRUWinnipeg last Friday admitted that railway tracks are cheap to buy?
Katz says that [...]
Posted: September 8th, 2008 under Uncategorized.
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A Line Too Strategic To Give Up
TRUWinnipeg was part of a group of people that met with someone high up at City Hall on Friday.
He told us that CN is unwilling to let the City use the CN Letellier Subdivision (the portion between Jubilee and the Univ. of Manitoba) to be used for an LRT or to have the tracks removed [...]
Posted: September 6th, 2008 under Infrastructure, Transit.
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Albert street: ready for razing
Word from pharma-tycoon Daren Jorgenson via his Protect the Heritage Buildings Facebook group is that the Albert Street business block, and with it the 129-year old house behind the storefronts, is about to fall victim to another dirty demolition scheme.
The Ken Hong owner has received notice to vacate the Albert Street Business Block so that [...]
Posted: September 5th, 2008 under Heritage Preservation, Historic Winnipeg.
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WT doesn’t like us posting flyers to their shelters
Today we got an e-mail from Brian Newton, Supervisor of Facilities Maintenance telling TRUWinnipeg to stop pasting our pamphlets to their transit shelters, and that any pamphlets found on their shelters will be removed immediately.
It’s interesting to note that Winnipeg Transit has not made a peep about this issue until this week. The last time [...]
Posted: September 3rd, 2008 under Transit, Urban Sprawl, Urban Studies.
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