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 for a BRT.
This is a reversal of CN’s position of a few years back, before privatization in 1994, when they had said they would “abandon” this line. CN realized that the Letellier is too strategic for freight transport between Canada and the United States to let go of.
Ironically, it was the Liberal Party, under Jean Chretien that privatized CN, the same party who had advocated for the Letellier’s abandonment for use as a bus rapid transit highway.
So the Southwest Transit Corridor will cost much more now because of it, but must be rail-based and built under Pembina Hwy. There is no other option.
Posted: September 6th, 2008 under Infrastructure, Transit.
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