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The Winnipeg Free Press and the Winnipeg Chamber of Commerce have announced a campaign, to quote “We Believe in Winnipeg“.
Our economy is not really “strong”, as the pundits are saying. It may be strong in that governments pay long-term leases in downtown property and government bureaucracies tend to grow rather than shrink over time. That [...]

The first bit of work for still unannounced mode for the Southwest Rapid Transit Corridor — for drainage, is going to local construction company Nelson River Construction, so says Average City blog.
Interestingly, AC says they’ll be using a TBM (tunnel boring machine) to do the work starting this May.

4% Increase Comes Despite Job Losses, Plunging Gas Prices
By Lena H. Sun
Washington Post Staff Writer
Monday, March 9, 2009; Page A02
Despite job losses and falling gasoline prices, record numbers of Americans rode subways, buses and commuter rail last year, boosting public transportation ridership to its highest level in 52 years, according to a survey to be [...]

So much stimulus talk has Winnipeg excited for infrastructure money, particularly for rapid transit—a recurring media topic since 1959, when Toronto transportation engineer Norman D. Wilson (TTC subway, Don Valley Parkway) visited Winnipeg for a traffic study culminating in a report recommending a 40 km, three-line subway.
Both the Winnipeg Free Press and the Winnipeg Tribune [...]

It appears that there is a difference of opinion when it relates to monorail technology here in PegTown.
Some Depression Era citizens of Winnipeg were supportive of the Juba Monorail. Even after Juba’s death, senior Winnipeggers look in favour of former Mayor Juba’s unrealized plans for the Southwest Transit Corridor using monorail technology.
Some Generations X and [...]

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By Sarah Khalil
The Manitoban
Winnipeg Transit is expected to implement a new fare collection technology called Smartcard within future years according to Winnipeg Transit spokesperson Ken Allen.
According to Allen, an exact implementation date is unknown as Winnipeg Transit is very early on in the process and the cost is unknown.
This new technology will replace the [...]

Thanks for the heads up from fellow blogger Average City (who is supportive of an underground subway for Winnipeg) spotted a notice from the City regarding the still yet unnamed modal technology for the Southwest Rapid Transit Corridor.
http://averagecity.blogspot.com/2009/03/rapid-transit-stage-1-tender.html

Winnipeg Transit is moving to an electronic farebox system by 2011.
But moving to an electronic system also can have its disadvantages, such as what happened in Vancouver.
They have the SkyTrain and as I recall their fareboxes on diesel and trolleybuses are electronic, which means they count all the coins that are deposited in them.
One incident, [...]