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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 [...]

Today we got an e-mail from Brian Newton, Supervisor of Facilities Maintenance telling TRUWinnipeg to stop pasting our pamphlets to their transit shelters, and that any pamphlets found on their shelters will be removed immediately.
It’s interesting to note that Winnipeg Transit has not made a peep about this issue until this week. The last time [...]

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 [...]

The other rapid transit group, the “Coalition”, claims to have the support of 18 groups — NGOs and some BIZ groups:

Sierra Club of Winnipeg
Resource Conservation of Mantoba
Social Planning Council of Winnipeg
Climate Change Connection
West End BIZ
Osborne Village BIZ
Downtown Winnipeg BIZ
University of Winnipeg
Canadian Mennonite University
Planners Network Manitoba
Manitoba Audio Recording Association (mentioned 2x in their list)
Urban Shaman Contemporary [...]

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 [...]