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Eight years later and going strong, people are beginning to remember and promote the Wilson subway plan for  Winnipeg that had been forgotten by the 1970s…
I am so glad that I transcribed this document in 2003/04. Was worth every minute of time typing it in.
This is truly what a grassroots movement is all about. No [...]

This is Part 2 of my analysis of Winnipeg Transit’s re-routing and new route planning strategy to accommodate the ‘rt’ which opens April 8, 2012.
There are some new routes that semi-function properly as they would if Winnipeg had a rail-based rapid transit line.
I will use the 185 Osborne Village Express as the example here.
The northern [...]

Once the half-completed ‘rapid transit’ line is opened on April 8, 2012 (4 + 8 = 12 … what’s with the numerology WT?) some legacy bus routes will terminate at different places than before.
I will use one a couple of routes that I am most familiar with, the 65 Grant Express and the 66 Grant.
Prior [...]

by Robert Galston (Volunteer)
The first formal rapid transit study for Winnipeg was brought before city council in 1959, nearly 53 years ago. Written by Norman D. Wilson, who by then had planned Toronto’s subway system, the study called for the construction of three subway routes which would wind their way across Winnipeg’s irregular grid pattern. [...]