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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 [...]

Transit Riders’ Union of Winnipeg:
I totally agree with you and believe that the downtown part of the rapid transit should be built underground from the start and no other system considered for the central area.  Other parts of the system could be built underground as finances permit.
Gordon Linney

Hi guys,
I just wanted to say that I agree with alot of your opinions on your site. I used to live in Winnipeg, but now I live in Calgary. I feel that BRT is a huge waste of money, lets face it, it starts nowhere, goes through no where, and ends no where. [...]

Hello people of Winnipeg!
I wanted to write a short letter supporting any plan your beautiful city may have to implement a subway/underground rail system. I am writing this letter from Minneapolis, MN, your sister to the South. I echo your pain in not being able to get a proper underground transit system passed because of [...]

Hi TRUWinnipeg,
First of all, I’d like to thank you guys for the work you do with the website. You say a lot of things that I agree with and that need to be said.
I just wanted to let you know that I took the Norman Wilson map from your website and overlayed it on a [...]

L Occhino writes:
Hi there,
Just thought I’d send a quick email stating I really enjoyed viewing your site. There’s a lot of vital information you have listed. No doubt our city needs some form of new modern transportation. I would love to see an underground subway here…… also, just so you know I recently sent an [...]

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 [...]

Christopher Wilcott wrote:
Wednesday, April 26, 2006
To the Editor of the Winnipeg Free Press:
In response to Robert Foster’s Letter published April 26th, 2006, regarding Dallas Hansen’s article “Big box culture due to fail”
Mr. Foster criticized Mr. Hansen for not offering advice on how to pay for “the Porsche”, an analogy of financing the construction [...]

Hello,
My name is Julie Penner and I am a former Winnipegger, now living in Toronto (there are so many of us!). I was just directed to your site tonight and am finding it, and its links, quite fascinating.
Many people in Winnipeg have such a skewed sense of the “big city” of Toronto. They’re shocked when [...]

(Editor’s Note: The following e-mail was received by us in September 2005. It was also cc’d to – Mayor Sam Katz, Premier Gary Doer, Prime Minister Paul Martin, John Godfrey, Donald Benham, Bill Blaikie, Stephen Fletcher, Pat Martin, Anita Neville, R Simard, Joy Smith, Judy Wasylycia-Leis, Minister of State for Infrastructure, and Gordon Sinclair Jr. [...]