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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 [...]

TRUWinnipeg was part of a group of people that met with someone high up at City Hall on Friday.
He told us that CN is unwilling to let the City use the CN Letellier Subdivision (the portion between Jubilee and the Univ. of Manitoba) to be used for an LRT or to have the tracks removed [...]

The traffic volume map for metropolitan Winnipeg measured in 2007 is now available.
Most of the Wilson subway locations have been included in this table.
The figures below count automobile traffic, but it is not known whether Transit vehicles are also factored in the mix.
One interesting thing to note is that there were only 14,600 vehicles counted [...]

Here’s a YouTube video done by a blue collar man named Gary, who laments the poor quality of public transit in Winnipeg.

He takes a bit to get started on his rant, but it’s excellent once he does. Gary shows TRUWinnipegger Jeff Lowe’s recent OP-ED piece entitled Time To Grow Up, which refers to the power [...]

Rumour in the local blogosphere has it that Mayor Katz will make an announcement regarding rapid transit for Winnipeg sometime after July 31st.
And the possible leaked information points to rail transit as the mode that Winnipeg will choose to build in the next 5 years, as PolicyFrog has said in his post:
For what it’s worth, [...]

When a new rapid transit line is opened to the public, the transit authority will re-route buses to serve the new rapid transit stations. The term for this is bus-rail integration.
The major benefit is to shorten the length of routes.
For example it will longer be necessary or desired for the 64 Lindenwoods Express, the 65 [...]

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” [...]

This video clip was broadcast on Treehouse Tv (I can tell by the logo at the bottom right corner).
It shows the operation of both the TTC subway and the TTC streetcar (regular, and articulated)…

At 2:50 into the video clip the narrator says “this is a tranfer station. It’s always busy”. That must be Bloor-Yonge hub [...]

Rob Dyck, who identifies himself as part of the Elmwood Liberals, designed his own rapid transit system for the metropolitan Winnipeg area. Rob is part of the federal Liberal of Canada (Manitoba) executive.
Thread didn’t come up in the first 3 or 4 pages when searching “rapid transit Winnipeg”, though I believe the reason for that [...]

The video below is from Line 1 in Paris, France. Every 30 seconds during rush hour a new train arrives at La Defence Station, where several hundred people get off the train at a time.