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Here are 11 facts regarding the $138+million, 3.5km dedicated busway that was recently announced.
1. Buses are not rapid transit. Nor can they ever be. Rapid transit, by definition, involves rail vehicles running on their own right-of-way—above or below the ground. In the strictest sense, most LRT systems are not even rapid transit, but streetcar [...]

In my neighbourhood I’m close enough to two grocery stores — Fredette’s and Sun Food Mart.
The first is open from 7 a.m. till 8 p.m., while the second is open from 7.30 a.m. till 1.45 a.m.

The selection at Sun Food Mart is quite good, considering that there are about 4 isles.
What I’d like to have [...]

City must face reality of rapid transit
Jeff Lowe, Winnipeg Free Press
July 13, 2008
As one who has written extensively on the subject, it has been difficult to fend off the frustration one feels at the small-town tone the “debate” over rapid transit in our city has assumed.
The reportage has been framed as if the only “realistic” [...]

Although we were saying it three years ago, it took $1.39/L gasoline for Lakehead University economist Livio Di Matteo to recognize that higher fuel costs are going to bring the middle class back from suburbia.
It’s obnoxious to say, We told you so, but we did. And when it comes to which plan to follow for [...]

Entrance to subway station (built 1995) in Bilbao, Spain (metro population 950k):

Robert W. Galston, The Rise & Sprawl
Fresh from fighting to save the footprint of Upper Fort Garry—a structure demolished in 1882—Heritage Winnipeg has just given the thumbs up to the demolition of the Albert Street Business Block (and the 130 year-old house that stands adjoined to it) because Ken Zaifman, the developer who has sought [...]

Back in January I crossed paths with Councillor Harvey Smith. He was very intent on having a one-to-one meeting with me about transit, saying that he could possibly “fund our group”, but that we would have to meet with him for further details.
My meeting with Coun. Smith took place last week and Harvey basically said [...]

Robert Galston, Winnipeg Free Press
A drawing was released this month of the Winnipeg Regional Health Authority’s future offices at Logan Avenue and Main Street, which is part of Centre Venture Development Corporation’s “cluster developments” for downtown. A 200-car parkade will adjoin the building, and up the street close to Higgins Avenue, a new surface [...]

Robert W. Galston, The Rise and Sprawl
The nature of large publicly driven urban revitalization schemes in poor cities is to make the project take up as much room, and take out as much blight, as possible. Thus, 200 office workers and their parking spots take up an entire city block where a dozen buildings and [...]

Marion Warhaft, Winnipeg Free Press, March 1st, 2008
SUSHI have become almost commonplace fare, so ubiquitous they can be found even in supermarkets, and in almost every area, arriving, finally, at the city’s core. Most of those I’ve tried have been, at the very least, adequate — obviously, raw fish that are much past their prime [...]