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Also, just added another plug-in to our blogging software that randomly displays a blog post from our website.
The content on our website has grown over the past 5 years and the time has come to make it easier for you, our readers, to find the individual articles.
To use this feature, simply click on the box [...]

Now you can more easily print posts from TRUWinnipeg.org’s blog.
First select the blog post you want to print, and then select the printer icon at the top of the post and the software will create a new printer friendly page, on the fly.
The plug-in is called WP-PRINT.

Last week City Council OK’d a plan for a land swap at Parker Ave. in Fort Garry that would effectively create 3,500 units of affordable housing on the northern tip of Fort Garry, which would be designed and built by Andrew Marquess.

Andrew has a good track record in downtown Winnipeg, so far he has renovated [...]

Cancelbot on NewWinnipeg.com has this to say about the poor station design of the BRT:

If Winnipeg is to embrace the big city, then it should go ahead and replace Winnipeg Transit with a brand new Transit Authority.
The reason for doing this is to help pay for a rapid transit system for metropolitan Winnipeg by widening the customer base for which it is to serve.
As it is right now, Winnipeg [...]

This is a fragment of text from Winnipeg Electric Company’s (WECo.) newsletter of July 1922 when Winnipeg still had its streetcars and the Company was still expanding the tracks, not tearing them up:

SOURCE: WinnipegStreetcar.com – WECO Newsletter July 08, 1922
The history of every progressive community shows that its growth and development is measured by the [...]

Another inexpensive means of improving service would be for routes to terminate at transfer points. I wrote to Winnipeg Transit making this suggestion many years ago and never got a reply to my letter. Examples that leap to mind are:

continuing 68 Grosvenor west and north to Polo Park
extending 18 Corydon north from Tuxedo to Polo [...]

Commentary by Donovan Fontaine, via Facebook Protect the Heritage Buildings of Winnipeg from Demolition by Neglect
As it is evident from [this story, "Grain Exchange Annex to face demolition"], Heritage Winnipeg appears to be failing Winnipeg in regards to its stated goal of “restoration, rehabilitation and preservation of Winnipeg’s built environment.”

Robert Galston, The Uniter
Of the transformations that changed the face and fabric of Winnipeg’s old neighbourhoods in the past 60 years, none have been as sudden, total and tragic as the development of the Lord Selkirk Park neighbourhood in the 1960s.

Compare the above to a subway car, which makes it a cinch to move forwards or reverse direction. I’ve heard that Winnipeg is still considering these so-called “bendy” buses, to our peril.