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Transit Riders’ Union of Winnipeg:
I totally agree with you and believe that the downtown part of the rapid transit should be built underground from the start and no other system considered for the central area.  Other parts of the system could be built underground as finances permit.
Gordon Linney

Most TRU Winnipeg readers have heard the news: The Exchange District’s grandest row of buildings, along the south side of McDermot Avenue between King and Princess Streets, is in the crosshairs of Manitoba Hydro, which aims to build a substation on the site where three century-old buildings now stand.

Countless commentators & bloggers have asked the [...]

So after the groundwater is taken out of the subway tunnels, what to do with it?

Well, this afternoon I read that some of it is used to fill the fountains at Buckingham Palace Park in London England.
http://www.ens-newswire.com/ens/jan2001/2001-01-25-10.asp
London Turns Rising Groundwater Into Liquid Asset
LONDON, United Kingdom, January 25, 2001 (ENS) – Engineers are finding innovative uses [...]

Another fan of our website speaks out. This one from ‘Jim Cotton’ of PITT:

Subway system only way to go for Winnipeg
http://www.winnipegsun.com/News/Winnipeg/2008/06/14/5874956-sun.html
When will they stop dinking around with transit ?
Go big , or go home. They need to build a subway system in Winnipeg. It will not be cheap. But it will environmentally friendly, warm , [...]

First of all the Plan:
Public Art Plan: 2008 Allocation
1. City Hall
The history of art work located in and around major public service institutions is a long and illustrious one. As the heart of the City’s political and public life, City Hall warrants a major art work. Housed [...]

Why “BRT” would do more harm than good
Lately and bizarrely there has been a renewed interest in the Axworthy-Murray-Borland-Wyatt dead horse that was the “Bus Rapid Transit” plan that Mayor Sam Katz blew off in 2005. Would-be Liberal MLA Paul Hesse is leading a ragtag team of pseudo-environmentalists and “urban” types who are calling for [...]

Hello people of Winnipeg!
I wanted to write a short letter supporting any plan your beautiful city may have to implement a subway/underground rail system. I am writing this letter from Minneapolis, MN, your sister to the South. I echo your pain in not being able to get a proper underground transit system passed because of [...]

Robert W. Galston, The Rise and Sprawl
When it comes to Starbucks, I tend to agree with James H. Kunstler when he told Good Experience blog:
Starbucks provides something very simple, in short supply: agreeable public space… You pay $3.50 for their stupid coffee concoction, but you stay at their table for an hour and a half. [...]

Robert W. Galston, The Rise and Sprawl
Last winter, when City Hall said they were not interested in letting Mr. Zaifman bring the suburbs to the finest little street in the city’s most distinct and important neighborhood by demolishing a strip of businesses and the remnant of a 130-year-old house for a parking lot, Zaifman warned [...]

By people who realize that if you abandon the criteria that public works need to be ugly, stupid and cheap, you can actually improve the lives of citizens, not just through transportation, but by making their public space more beautiful.