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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 [...]

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” [...]

Although we were saying it three years ago, it took $1.39/L gasoline for Lakehead University economist Livio Di Matteo to recognize that higher fuel costs are going to bring the middle class back from suburbia.
It’s obnoxious to say, We told you so, but we did. And when it comes to which plan to follow for [...]

CJOB’s Vic Grant has “weighed in” on the rapid transit issue for Winnipeg. In comparing the current Director of Transit, Dave Wardrop to the fomer Rick Borland, he says:
Once upon a time he was the head of transit, doing a pretty good job, too, especially with what he had to work with. You may [...]

Back in January I crossed paths with Councillor Harvey Smith. He was very intent on having a one-to-one meeting with me about transit, saying that he could possibly “fund our group”, but that we would have to meet with him for further details.
My meeting with Coun. Smith took place last week and Harvey basically said [...]

A letter to the editor of the Winnipeg Sun by Vicki Poirier, and published on March 26, 2008 asks whether a BRT that speeds along at 80 km/h and maybe at most shaving off 5 minutes off a Univ. of Manitoba to downtown commute time will be money well spent. She then goes on to [...]

Dan Lett writes in his blog post about Sam Katz’s Trade Council, which recommends completing the Suburban Beltway pseudo-expressway for Winnipeg, and building the Western Freeway from the W.A.T.S. plan of 1968 between the Airport and the Perimeter Hwy.
He says that, d’uh, rapid transit should be a higher priority. And therefore Dan wins this week’s [...]

Robert Galston, The Uniter
The news that the first houses built in Waverly West will end up not having geothermal heat came as a surprise to no one this week. With construction set to go ahead this summer, it is clear that the giant government-led subdivision, once hailed as Winnipeg’s “suburb of tomorrow,” is shaping up [...]