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	<description>Toward a Better Future for Urban Winnipeg</description>
	<pubDate>Tue, 16 Sep 2008 16:18:19 +0000</pubDate>
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		<title>Worst mistake in city&#8217;s history: Poverty capital opts for ghetto busway</title>
		<link>http://www.truwinnipeg.org/2008/09/13/poverty-capital-opts-for-ghetto-busway/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 13 Sep 2008 21:33:04 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Dallas</dc:creator>
		
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.truwinnipeg.org/?p=234</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[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 [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Some Questions&#8230;And What You&#8217;re Really Getting</title>
		<link>http://www.truwinnipeg.org/2008/09/08/some-questionsand-what-youre-really-getting/</link>
		<comments>http://www.truwinnipeg.org/2008/09/08/some-questionsand-what-youre-really-getting/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 09 Sep 2008 03:48:35 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>JimJ</dc:creator>
		
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.truwinnipeg.org/?p=232</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[In response to today&#8217;s announcement that the $138 Million Southern and SouthEast Freeways Southwest Transit Corridor will be built by about 2011/2012, I have this to say.
There are several questions.
Why build BRT and LRT later when Katz himself, in a meeting with TRUWinnipeg last Friday admitted that railway tracks are cheap to buy?
Katz says that [...]]]></description>
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		<title>A Line Too Strategic To Give Up</title>
		<link>http://www.truwinnipeg.org/2008/09/06/a-line-too-strategic-to-give-up/</link>
		<comments>http://www.truwinnipeg.org/2008/09/06/a-line-too-strategic-to-give-up/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 06 Sep 2008 07:21:41 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>JimJ</dc:creator>
		
		<category><![CDATA[Infrastructure]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Transit]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.truwinnipeg.org/?p=231</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[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 [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Albert street: ready for razing</title>
		<link>http://www.truwinnipeg.org/2008/09/05/albert-street-ready-for-razing/</link>
		<comments>http://www.truwinnipeg.org/2008/09/05/albert-street-ready-for-razing/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 06 Sep 2008 03:53:22 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Dallas</dc:creator>
		
		<category><![CDATA[Heritage Preservation]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Historic Winnipeg]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.truwinnipeg.org/?p=230</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Word from pharma-tycoon Daren Jorgenson via his Protect the Heritage Buildings Facebook group is that the Albert Street business block, and with it the 129-year old house behind the storefronts, is about to fall victim to another dirty demolition scheme.
The Ken Hong owner has received notice to vacate the Albert Street Business Block so that [...]]]></description>
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		<title>WT doesn&#8217;t like us posting flyers to their shelters</title>
		<link>http://www.truwinnipeg.org/2008/09/03/wt-doesnt-like-us-posting-flyers-to-their-shelters/</link>
		<comments>http://www.truwinnipeg.org/2008/09/03/wt-doesnt-like-us-posting-flyers-to-their-shelters/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 03 Sep 2008 22:27:58 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>JimJ</dc:creator>
		
		<category><![CDATA[Transit]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Urban Sprawl]]></category>

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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.truwinnipeg.org/?p=228</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[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&#8217;s interesting to note that Winnipeg Transit has not made a peep about this issue until this week. The last time [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Paul Hesse Sorta Likes Trains&#8230;Sorta</title>
		<link>http://www.truwinnipeg.org/2008/08/13/paul-hesse-sorta-likes-trainssorta/</link>
		<comments>http://www.truwinnipeg.org/2008/08/13/paul-hesse-sorta-likes-trainssorta/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 14 Aug 2008 01:57:15 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>JimJ</dc:creator>
		
		<category><![CDATA[Heritage Preservation]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Historic Winnipeg]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.truwinnipeg.org/?p=227</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[If you belong to social networking group Facebook, then you can see for yourself that Bus Rapid Transit apologist Paul Hesse is a member of the group that seeks to restore Winnipeg Electric Company streetcar #356.
However this truly defies normal logic, as Paul is leader of another group — one that seeks to continue Winnipeg&#8217;s [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Latenight Supermarkets Downtown?</title>
		<link>http://www.truwinnipeg.org/2008/08/12/latenight-supermarkets-downtown/</link>
		<comments>http://www.truwinnipeg.org/2008/08/12/latenight-supermarkets-downtown/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 12 Aug 2008 22:34:19 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>JimJ</dc:creator>
		
		<category><![CDATA[Downtown Revitalization]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.truwinnipeg.org/?p=226</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[In my neighbourhood I&#8217;m close enough to two grocery stores &#8212; Fredette&#8217;s and Sun Food Mart.
The first is open from 7 a.m. till 8 p.m., while the second is open from 7.30 a.m. till 1.45 a.m.

The selection at Sun Food Mart is quite good, considering that there are about 4 isles.
What I&#8217;d like to have [...]]]></description>
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		<title>2007 Metro Winnipeg Traffic Volumes</title>
		<link>http://www.truwinnipeg.org/2008/08/04/2007-metro-winnipeg-traffic-volumes/</link>
		<comments>http://www.truwinnipeg.org/2008/08/04/2007-metro-winnipeg-traffic-volumes/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 04 Aug 2008 14:45:16 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>JimJ</dc:creator>
		
		<category><![CDATA[Infrastructure]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Urban Studies]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.truwinnipeg.org/?p=225</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[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 [...]]]></description>
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		<title>No Transit</title>
		<link>http://www.truwinnipeg.org/2008/08/02/no-transit/</link>
		<comments>http://www.truwinnipeg.org/2008/08/02/no-transit/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 02 Aug 2008 17:23:58 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>JimJ</dc:creator>
		
		<category><![CDATA[Infrastructure]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[New Urbanism]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Transit]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Urban Sprawl]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.truwinnipeg.org/?p=224</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Here&#8217;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&#8217;s excellent once he does. Gary shows TRUWinnipegger Jeff Lowe&#8217;s recent OP-ED piece entitled Time To Grow Up, which refers to the power [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Rapid transit rumours</title>
		<link>http://www.truwinnipeg.org/2008/07/24/rapid-transit-rumours/</link>
		<comments>http://www.truwinnipeg.org/2008/07/24/rapid-transit-rumours/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 25 Jul 2008 01:46:17 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>JimJ</dc:creator>
		
		<category><![CDATA[Infrastructure]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Transit]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.truwinnipeg.org/?p=221</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[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, [...]]]></description>
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