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Here at TRU Winnipeg, we’ve found that critiquing the local discussion on urban issues is rather like playing a never-ending game of whac-a-mole—each time we smack down the clueless assertions of one ostensible academic, instantly pops up another.
The most recent bit of disingenuous drivel comes from University of Winnipeg professor Christopher Leo, who claims “expertise” [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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:

Uniter.ca
April 2, 2009
The Downtown Development Plan of 1969
by Robert Galston
By the 1960s the teeming optimism that permeated Winnipeg’s civic condition at the turn of the century had long since vanished. Never mind Chicago of the North, the city was poised to play second fiddle to Calgary and Edmonton. In the midst of the jet age, [...]

Urbanites now have a new tool to determine the walkability of a potential new neighborhood (or any location)—WalkScore.com, which performs its miraculous calculations based on proven criteria and information provided by Google Maps.
How do Winnipeg neighborhoods measure up? The intersection of River Avenue and Osborne Street—the hub of Osborne Village, considered Winnipeg’s most pedestrian-friendly neighborhood—gets [...]

So much stimulus talk has Winnipeg excited for infrastructure money, particularly for rapid transit—a recurring media topic since 1959, when Toronto transportation engineer Norman D. Wilson (TTC subway, Don Valley Parkway) visited Winnipeg for a traffic study culminating in a report recommending a 40 km, three-line subway.
Both the Winnipeg Free Press and the Winnipeg Tribune [...]

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 [...]