Archive for 'Transit'
Smartcards coming to Winnipeg?
Talia Joundi, The Manitoban
Major cities across Canada are witnessing technological developments within their transit systems. Transit riders in Calgary, Edmonton, Kingston, Saskatoon and other cities have adjusted to a new “smart” method of payment, which allows passengers to swipe reloadable cards in place of bus tickets.
Winnipeg is also joining the trend, expecting to have buses [...]
Posted: February 18th, 2010 under Transit.
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Rejigging WT Routes – What to do all day
Fellow TRUWinnipegger Rob Galston has a blog post about design of a new building for Smith Carter Architects at 1600 Buffalo Pl. in Fort Garry.
He raises a point, in sarcasm, about the ‘94 Kenaston Express’ bus route. It’s not really an Express anyway, but I’ll leave that part of it alone.
When I first read that [...]
Posted: August 6th, 2009 under Transit, Urban Sprawl, Urban Studies.
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Wrong Way to Rapid Transit
Last week City Council OK’d a plan for a land swap at Parker Ave. in Fort Garry that would effectively create 3,500 units of affordable housing on the northern tip of Fort Garry, which would be designed and built by Andrew Marquess.
Andrew has a good track record in downtown Winnipeg, so far he has renovated [...]
Posted: July 30th, 2009 under Infrastructure, Mixed Use, Transit, Urban Sprawl, Urban Studies.
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Bad Station Design
Cancelbot on NewWinnipeg.com has this to say about the poor station design of the BRT:
Posted: July 30th, 2009 under Civic Beauty, Infrastructure, Transit, Urban Studies.
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They Knew Back Then
This is a fragment of text from Winnipeg Electric Company’s (WECo.) newsletter of July 1922 when Winnipeg still had its streetcars and the Company was still expanding the tracks, not tearing them up:
SOURCE: WinnipegStreetcar.com – WECO Newsletter July 08, 1922
The history of every progressive community shows that its growth and development is measured by the [...]
Posted: July 28th, 2009 under Infrastructure, Transit, Urban Sprawl, Urban Studies.
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TRUMail – July 24, 2009
Another inexpensive means of improving service would be for routes to terminate at transfer points. I wrote to Winnipeg Transit making this suggestion many years ago and never got a reply to my letter. Examples that leap to mind are:
continuing 68 Grosvenor west and north to Polo Park
extending 18 Corydon north from Tuxedo to Polo [...]
Posted: July 24th, 2009 under TRUMail, Transit, Urban Sprawl, Urban Studies.
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The Bendy Bus Song
Someone on the Net took that video of the so-called “Bendy” (Articulated) Bus in Moscow and embellished it with 3D computer graphics to add a larger story…and then there’s the song. Give a look:
Posted: July 18th, 2009 under Transit, Urban Sprawl.
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A walking tour of the new Canada Line (Oakridge-41st Avenue Station)
Posted: July 4th, 2009 under Infrastructure, Transit.
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Additional $1,000,000,000 coming for rapid transit
I believe ever so more on the power of positive thinking and that we become what we think.
So it goes like the previous post that if we believe that Winnipeg cannot afford a rail rapid transit solution, then that’s what’ll happen. As I have experienced for the past 30 years in talking with Winnipeg Transit [...]
Posted: July 3rd, 2009 under Infrastructure, New Urbanism, Transit.
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A Grant Ave. Streetcar
On Canada Day I saw streetcar 596 that was created by Danny Schur as a smaller replica of streetcar 356, I was reminded by a dream I’ve had for the past 15 years that goes like this.
I am walking to my regular bus stop in River Heights at Grant Ave. late at night when I [...]
Posted: July 2nd, 2009 under Infrastructure, Transit.
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