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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 [...]

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 [...]

The traffic volume map for metropolitan Winnipeg measured in 2007 is now available.
Most of the Wilson subway locations have been included in this table.
The figures below count automobile traffic, but it is not known whether Transit vehicles are also factored in the mix.
One interesting thing to note is that there were only 14,600 vehicles counted [...]

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 [...]

The video below is from Line 1 in Paris, France. Every 30 seconds during rush hour a new train arrives at La Defence Station, where several hundred people get off the train at a time.

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 [...]

Robert Galston, Winnipeg Free Press
A drawing was released this month of the Winnipeg Regional Health Authority’s future offices at Logan Avenue and Main Street, which is part of Centre Venture Development Corporation’s “cluster developments” for downtown. A 200-car parkade will adjoin the building, and up the street close to Higgins Avenue, a new surface [...]

Robert W. Galston, The Rise and Sprawl
The nature of large publicly driven urban revitalization schemes in poor cities is to make the project take up as much room, and take out as much blight, as possible. Thus, 200 office workers and their parking spots take up an entire city block where a dozen buildings and [...]

Why “BRT” would do more harm than good
Lately and bizarrely there has been a renewed interest in the Axworthy-Murray-Borland-Wyatt dead horse that was the “Bus Rapid Transit” plan that Mayor Sam Katz blew off in 2005. Would-be Liberal MLA Paul Hesse is leading a ragtag team of pseudo-environmentalists and “urban” types who are calling for [...]