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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” [...]

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 [...]

Winnipeg’s West End is easily the city’s most underestimated district. Snotty suburbanites (who frequently live in beige-carpeted 1980s tract homes) like to dismiss this neighbourhood of century-old trees, churches, and homes as “the ghetto,” but my West End is a place of friendly front porches, classic midwestern architecture, and inexpensive dining.

Lipton Street
Previously I had [...]

One of these houses was built in the mid 1880s. The other, the mid 2000s. Can you tell which is which?

The idea that a new building should resemble the older ones surrounding it isn’t new, but it has enjoyed a revival in popularity during recent years. Winnipeg, unfortunately, hasn’t yet caught on to this trend. [...]

There is a misconception that Winnipeg is not a city of mixed-use buildings, where people reside in apartments and rooms above shops or services. And while Winnipeg has historically been, first and foremost, a city of houses, the city’s faded wealth of mixed-use buildings–the most urban of all building typologies–is either unknown or poorly understood [...]

By Robert Galston
This past weekend was spent in the local history room of the Millennium Library looking through the old Henderson Directories. It was in order to gain a better understanding of Main Street’s urban past. In searching, I decided that 1945 was the year I was going to concentrate on. It is recent in [...]

Dallas Hansen, Winnipeg Free Press, September 23, 2006
There is in Winnipeg a constant chatter about the urgency of reinvigorating the inner city and downtown especially. Unfortunately, the specific, concrete steps that must be made are seldom mentioned, and all the splendid ideas have not been satisfyingly formed into a cohesive plan.
Since the need for a [...]

Editor’s Note: Just going through old e-mails, and one from May 24, 2006 from a Robert (evanscott AT rogers) says:
Hello,
I’m writing to say how much I’m impressed with your web site. I stumbled on it very recently – part of my ongoing investigation on Winnipeg today. I’m strongly considering moving back soon and situating my [...]

The Winnipeg Free Press - May 6, 2006
City must fill more than potholes to keep its young
By Robert W. Galston
On her walks through downtown, Suzanne Beaubien (The Gauntlet, May 4) seems to experience daily the fruition of Norman Wilson’s grim warning for a downtown Winnipeg without rapid transit: A place where “the dead storage of [...]