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Unofficial Winnipeg Transit Online - Park & Ride Locations
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Unofficial Winnipeg Transit Online - Public Service News - May 1966 - Why Express Service?
Description: This question is still asked by riders who board local buses in areas through which Express service is operated
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Description: Local website advocating the use of LRT for the University Line
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Unofficial Winnipeg Transit Online - Photo Gallery - Page 1 of 2
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Unofficial Winnipeg Transit Online - 1953 Transit Referendum
Description: Following are the results poll by poll, in Wednesday's transit referendum
Unofficial Winnipeg Transit Online - 1957 Fares
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Unofficial Winnipeg Transit Online - 1957 Routes
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Unofficial Winnipeg Transit Online - Public Service News - September 1961 - We get questions
Description: During the course of a year many hundreds of citizens ask questions about transit service
Unofficial Winnipeg Transit Online - 1962 Routes
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Unofficial Winnipeg Transit Online - uwto.org Glossary
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Unofficial Winnipeg Transit Online - 19th Century History
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Unofficial Winnipeg Transit Online - Transit Destination Guide
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Unofficial Winnipeg Transit Online - 20th Century History
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Unofficial Winnipeg Transit Online - 1998 - Comprehending TransPlan: Part 2
Description: In his first installment of this series, Jeff Lowe describes some of the recommendations found in the final report of TransPlan 2010
Unofficial Winnipeg Transit Online - Council Hansard: 1998 Reduced Transit Fares
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Unofficial Winnipeg Transit Online - May 13, 1999 Council
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Unofficial Winnipeg Transit Online - March 28, 2003 Council
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Unofficial Winnipeg Transit Online - 2004 - September 29 Council Speech
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Unofficial Winnipeg Transit Online - The (Non) History of Rapid Transit in Winnipeg
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Unofficial Winnipeg Transit Online - 1998 - TransPlan Taken for Joyride: Part 1
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Unofficial Winnipeg Transit Online - Light Rail Transit for Winnipeg
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Unofficial Winnipeg Transit Online - Light Rail for Winnipeg - Page 1
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Unofficial Winnipeg Transit Online - December 16, 1998 Council
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Unofficial Winnipeg Transit Online - Perimeter Review of UWTO
Description: Was there ever a more welcome innovation for Winnipeggers than Transit'sTele-bus service when it was introduced back in the 1980s?
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Unofficial Winnipeg Transit Online - Winnipeg Area Transportation Study (1968)
Description: The Winnipeg Area Transportation Study was commenced in 1962, when the collection of basic data necessary for such a study was initiated
Unofficial Winnipeg Transit Online - Downtown Transit Study (1974)
Description: PUBLIC TRANSIT STUDY
Unofficial Winnipeg Transit Online - Southwest Rapid Transit Corridor Study (1978)
Description: The southern terminal would be Bison Drive in Fort Richmond, with trains ending there and feeder buses transporting passengers to the University of Manitoba's southern entrance in
Unofficial Winnipeg Transit Online - Plan Winnipeg Draft (1981)
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Unofficial Winnipeg Transit Online - 1995 - TransPlan Survey: Final Report
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Unofficial WinnipegTransit Online - TransPlan2010 Final Report (1998)
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Description: Downtown is often described as being too large to be a cohesive unit; that its size results in a disjointed land mass with several disconnected nodes of activity
Description: Throughout the recorded history of Western Canada the junction of the Red and Assiniboine Rivers, the site of Greater Winnipeg, has been an important strategic location
Unofficial Winnipeg Transit Online - Winnipeg Area Transportation Study (1966) Travel Analysis
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Unofficial Winnipeg Transit Online - Innovative TransitProjects in Winnipeg (1976)
Description: For Presentation to the 1976 Conference of the CanadianInstitute of Transportation Engineering in Winnipeg
Unofficial Winnipeg Transit Online - 1989 - Mayor a convert to light-rail system
Description: Mayor Bill Norrie says his recent visit to a West German transit rail plant has persuaded him an electric, light-rail system is the answer to Winnipeg's traffic woes
Unofficial Winnipeg Transit Online - 1989 - Parking study called waste
Description: A $120,000 downtown parking study has been as "meaningless" because it ignores Plan Winnipeg's support for public transit
Unofficial Winnipeg Transit Online - 1989 - OP-ED: Big-league predicament gets bush-league solution
Description: Like the inveterate mountaineer — who, when asked to explain his lust to scale the forbidding peak which confronted him, replied: "Because it is
Unofficial Winnipeg Transit Online - 1989 - How do you get 'em out of the cars?
Description: TORONTO - In a reasonable world, the Toronto Transit Commission would have no trouble luringdrivers from their automobiles onto its buses, streetcars, and subways
Unofficial Winnipeg Transit Online - 1990 - Transit ad campaign waste of money, councillor says
Description: A $100,000 Winnipeg Transit advertising campaign will be a waste of money because it won't change anyone's mind about driving to work, a city councillor charged yesterday
Unofficial Winnipeg Transit Online - 1990 - Build rapid transit or face lynch mob, city warned
Description: It's a rapid transit system or a lynch mob marching on city hall, Coun
Unofficial Winnipeg Transit Online - 1990 - Break cools off busway debate
Description: A proposed $59-million busway along Pembina Highway sparked a heated debate in civic works and operations committee yesterday that required a 15-minute cooling-off period
Unofficial Winnipeg Transit Online - 1959 - City Could Get Subway And Expressways, Too
Description: A subway and expressways may be in store for Greater Winnipeg, say city planners
Unofficial Winnipeg Transit Online - 1959 - Expressways No Cure For Traffic ... Toronto Expert Says
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Unofficial Winnipeg Transit Online - 1959 - Eight Major Blessings In Winnipeg Subway
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Unofficial Winnipeg Transit Online - 1959 - Who Pays The Cost?
Description: Who would meet the tremendous costs of a subway in Greater Winnipeg?
Unofficial Winnipeg Transit Online - 1959 - Speed of 20 M.P.H.
Description: How fast can a subway train go?
Unofficial Winnipeg Transit Online - 1959 - Start In Five Years — Transit
Description: The Greater Winnipeg Transit Commission says it would like to start on the first stage of subway construction here in five years, completing the stage in another five
Unofficial Winnipeg Transit Online - 1959 - Transit Plan: Start Subway In 5 Years
Description: The Greater Winnipeg Transit Commission says it accepts the main recommendations of theWilson subway report, and adopts them in principle
Unofficial Winnipeg Transit Online - 1959 - Subway for City Urged
Description: An immediate start on subway construction has been advocated in a report to the GreaterWinnipeg Transit Commission
Unofficial Winnipeg Transit Online - 1959 - 225,000 Cars Here By 1981
Description: By 1981, there will be nearly 225,000 vehicles in Greater Winnipeg — or threetimes the present number
Unofficial Winnipeg Transit Online - 1969 - Transit Dream: $1 Billion
Description: An estimated $750 million to $1 billion will be needed to implement proposals outlined in a massive transportation study suggested by Metro's streets and transit department Thursday
Unofficial Winnipeg Transit Online - 1980 - Purchase of smaller bus urged
Description: The transit system can save about $89,000 a year in operating costsby purchasing 28 shorter-than-normal diesel buses for use on suburbanfeeder routes, transit director Rick Borland said yesterday
Unofficial Winnipeg Transit Online - 1981 - Transit to tightensecurity after boy drives off with bus
Description: City transit officials are looking into ways of tightening security at the threetransit garages after a 15-year-old boy walked undetected into the Osborne Streetgarage Sunday and drove off with a bus
Unofficial Winnipeg Transit Online - 1981 - 520 buses to get two-way radios
Description: Manitoba Telephone System was awarded a $2,199,047 contract yesterdayto install a two-way radio system in 520 city buses
Unofficial Winnipeg Transit Online - 1981 - Gasoline tax urged to help fund transit
Description: The civic works and operations committee has asked the provincial government to legislate a gasoline tax to provide revenue for Winnipeg Transit
Unofficial Winnipeg Transit Online - 1981 - Restructuring favored
Description: The restructuring of the city's transit department into two branches was approved yesterday by civic works and operations committee
Description: Transit Tom wants to know how you get where you're going
Unofficial Winnipeg Transit Online - 1982 - Consultants propose return to trolley lines
Description: Winnipeg Transit System could cut its diesel fuel use by 3
Unofficial Winnipeg Transit Online - 1983 - Warming News for Bus Riders
Description: Winnipeggers can look forward to fewer long, frigid waits at city bus stops next winter when a new transit phone-for-information service comes into operation
Unofficial Winnipeg Transit Online - 1983 - Transit garage exhaust fumes cited as health hazard
Description: The city must spend $222,000 overhauling the ventilation system at itsOsborne Street transit garage or face having part of the facility closedbecause of a health hazard to workers
Unofficial Winnipeg Transit Online - 1985 - Taxpayers shell out to pay for transit subsidy
Description: Every so often, taxpayers in Winnipeg, and, for that matter, taxpayers throughout Manitoba, get a not-so-gentle reminder that there is no such thing as a free lunch
Unofficial Winnipeg Transit Online - 1985 - LETTER: Free Transit
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Unofficial Winnipeg Transit Online - 1985 - Transit garage ventilation costs set at $1.2 million
Description: Ventilation equipment worth $1
Unofficial Winnipeg Transit Online - 1986 - Mothballed rapid transit route plan to get fresh look
Description: A multi-million-dollar proposal to build a rapid-transit route to downtown Winnipeg is to be hauled out of mothballs for a fresh look
Unofficial Winnipeg Transit Online - 1986 - City earmarks land for bus corridor sites
Description: Winnipeg Transit has earmarked vacant city land for use as jump-off points in the proposed $45-million southwest bus transit corridor
Unofficial Winnipeg Transit Online - 1987 - LETTER: Rapid transit
Description: Donald Campbell's article
Unofficial Winnipeg Transit Online - 1987 - Residents rattled by passing buses
Description: More than 200 north Winnipeg residents have signed a petitioncalling for the rerouting of the Aberdeen Avenue bus which theyclaim shakes, rattles and damages the neighbourhood
Unofficial Winnipeg Transit Online - 1987 - Council reported split on bus contract
Description: City council is said to be divided on whether to give a $5-million contract for 30 city transit buses to Winnipeg's New Flyer Industries Ltd
Unofficial Winnipeg Transit Online - 1987 - About 100 cities considering LRT projects
Description: There are an estimated 25 cities in North America that have built some form of light rapid transit system
Description: John Angus reclines behind an organized, wooden desk in his Garry Street office and peers ahead into the future
Unofficial Winnipeg Transit Online - 1988 - Transit system should get city's planning priority
Description: Winnipeg's official plan, Bylaw 2960/81, recognizes the intimate relationship between land use and transportation
Unofficial Winnipeg Transit Online - 1988 - Transit corridor called catalyst
Description: Speeding up consideration of the proposed Graham Avenue transit mall might help solve the woes of businesses on the south side of Portage Avenue, a city councillor says
Description: Mayor Bill Norrie, once an ardent opponent of an electric light-rail transit system forWinnipeg, now thinks a new $350-million version could be the answer to the city's worseningtraffic congestion
Unofficial Winnipeg Transit Online - 2004 - Millions for transit lost
Description: THE city is about to lose milliions in federal and provincialfunding for bike paths and new transit programs because it doesn'thave the cash to live up to its end of the deal
Unofficial Winnipeg Transit Online - 2004 - Mayor's staff says transit study flawed
Description: A city report shows rapid transit would pay for itself in seven years, but staff in the mayor's office believe the study is deeply flawed, according to a confidential memo leaked to the
Unofficial Winnipeg Transit Online - 1989 - The road to rapid transit
Description: Urban Affairs Minister Gerry Ducharme has taken the prudent and logicalnext step toward a rapid transit system for Winnipeg
Unofficial Winnipeg Transit Online - 2004 - OP-ED: Mass transit best route for Winnipeg
Description: WHEN Mayor Sam Katz put off Bus Rapid Transit, public transportationadvocates were relieved
Unofficial Winnipeg Transit Online - 2004 - Premier giving no clues to city (on rapid transit)
Description: WHEN city councillors gather this morning to pass final judgetment on rapid transit, they will do so without input from Premier Gary Doer
Unofficial Winnipeg Transit Online - 2004 - City traffic woes linked to lacking transit cash
Description: THE leader of the Green Party of Manitoba says when you're stuck in traffic on Winnipeg's ever-busier streets this winter, your wrath should be directed at the NDP
Unofficial Winnipeg Transit Online - 2004 - Transit fears 'ridiculous'
Description: MAYOR sam Katz called an 11th-hour attempt by some councillors to save rapid transit "ridiculous, desperate and totally false
Unofficial Winnipeg Transit Online - 2004 - LETTER: All great cities have LRT systems
Description: Already Mayor Katz is creating positive excitement in Winnipeg
Description: Orest Kinasevych has been riding the bus for an hour and still hasn't reached his destination
Unofficial Winnipeg Transit Online - 1990 Rapid Transit: A plan for Winnipeg
Description: NOW that Mayor Bill Norrie's conversion to rail transit is complete, attention should turn from which technology makes best sense to how widely it should be applied
Unofficial Winnipeg Transit Online - 1990 - LRT Better
Description: Consultants are usually hired to marshal arguments to support decsionsalready made in ignorance rather than to help bureaucrats make informeddecisions, but M
Unofficial Winnipeg Transit Online - 1990 - Making the city look good
Description: Ross McGowan, landscape architect, recalls the words of his grandmother: "When you look good you feel good and if you feel good you do good
Unofficial Winnipeg Transit Online - 1990 - Boss doubts numbers, but must live with them
Description: It's not every day someone loses seven millioin people
Unofficial Winnipeg Transit Online - 1990 - Ridership loses bring call for probe
Description: Winnipeg Transit lost seven million riders between 1987 and 1989,prompting two city councillors to call for an investigation
Unofficial Winnipeg Transit Online - 1991 - Extra nickel not expected to curb bus use
Description: A nickel hike in transit fares shouldn't hurt bus ridership — a fear expressed by councillors before they approved the rate increase Wednesday night
Unofficial Winnipeg Transit Online - 1993 - Some riders enthused, others skeptical
Description: Bus riders on the University route yesterday gave mixed reactions to plansfor a transit corridor that would cut their commuting time in half
Unofficial Winnipeg Transit Online - 1993 - City may privatize transit way
Description: The private sector would help pay for a $75-million rapid-transit corridorin south Winnipeg in exchange for development rights and tax advantages undera proposal being discussed with the city
Unofficial Winnipeg Transit Online - 1993 - Bus options weighed for transitcorridors
Description: While there is agreement Winnipeg could use rapid transit corridors, thereis no agreement yet on the kinds of vehicles that would operate alongthem
Unofficial Winnipeg Transit Online - 1994 - As fares go up, we hop off bus
Description: Winnipeg Transit is losing millions of riders a year, and some critics arecalling for reduced bus fares to reverse what they see as an alarmingtrend
Unofficial Winnipeg Transit Online - 1994 - Transit corridor coming to life
Description: Now that the Graham Avenue transit mall is on its way to becoming areality, Bill Menzies can spend his holidays checking out tourist shopsinstead of bus stops
Unofficial Winnipeg Transit Online - 1994 - Buses trying to lure riders: Parking free on two routes
Description: Winnipeg Transit, seeking new riders, is offering free parking for commuters who'll drive only part of the way to work
Unofficial Winnipeg Transit Online - 1995 - Transit pins hopes on passes, transfers
Description: Weekly passes and nondirectional transfers are part of a new WinnipegTransit fare structure which will go into effect tomorrow
Unofficial Winnipeg Transit Online - 1997 - Downtown parking under microscope
Description: Parking in downtown Winnipeg -- is being put under a microscope by anumber of different groups, for a number of reasons
Unofficial Winnipeg Transit Online - 1997 - A tax-free ride to work?
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Unofficial Winnipeg Transit Online - 1998 - Bus-fare protesters keep pressure up
Description: Transit advocates made the trip to city hall yesterday to warn councillorsthat the reduced-cash-fare issues won't end with today's budget vote
Unofficial Winnipeg Transit Online - 1998 - Beltway support not backed up
Description: There is little evidence that taxpayers would support Gerald Flood's suggestion to invest cash from the sale of Winnipeg Hydro to build an inner beltway (
Unofficial Winnipeg Transit Online - 1998 - Trolley proposal can work here
Description: This letter is in response to Gerald Flood's article
Unofficial Winnipeg Transit Online - 1999 - LETTER: Mini-buses small for busy route
Description: The city of Winnipeg Transit System has, in its infinite wisdom, decided to bring in mini-buseson the busy 60 Pembina route during rush-hour peak traffic
Unofficial Winnipeg Transit Online - 1999 - LETTER: Bus service could be better
Description: In response to the question about how Winnipeg can capitalize on the success of the CanWestGlobal Park and the Goldeyes who play there during the summer, I would offer the followingsuggestion
Unofficial Winnipeg Transit Online - 2000 - Limit downtown parking: Transit chief
Description: The city should limit the number of parkades in the downtown so that more commuters are forced to ride the bus, the head of the city's transit system said yesterday
Unofficial Winnipeg Transit Online - 2002 - There are alternatives to driving your car
Description: Frequent readers will remember that recently, with a broken right leg, I was relying on Whistler's excellent public transit system
Unofficial Winnipeg Transit Online - 2002 - Get trains out of town
Description: WINNIPEG motorists fuming about long waits for trains to clear intersections along the CN Rail mainlineare correct to demand their governments at all levels do something to end the frustrations
Unofficial Winnipeg Transit Online - 2003 - Rapid transit rails urged
Description: THE city's rapid transit corridor must run on rails, activists told a council committee yesterday
Unofficial Winnipeg Transit Online - 2003 - LETTER: Traffic editorial on wrong track
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Unofficial Winnipeg Transit Online - 2004 - LETTER: Rail lines could be used
Description: The Winnipeg Airport Authority's impending design of a new terminalbuilding
Unofficial Winnipeg Transit Online - 2004 - Bus boss strikes back in rapid transit spat
Description: WINNIPEG Transit director Rick Borland has demanded an apology from Mayor Sam Katz's top policy expert for suggesting city staff exaggerated the case for rapid transit
Unofficial Winnipeg Transit Online - 2004 - Rick Borland Resignation Letter
Description: To all transit staff:
Unofficial Winnipeg Transit Online - 2004 - City transit boss quits
Description: Citing personal differences with Mayor Sam Katz, transit boss Rick Borland stepped down yesterday just as council was voting in favour of Katz's plan to shelve rapid transit
Unofficial Winnipeg Transit Online - 2004 - (Bus) Rapid Transit doomed?
Description: RAPID transit is nearly dead at city hall, leaving about $34 million in federal and provincial funding in limbo
Unofficial Winnipeg Transit Online - 2004 - Hidden costs a cloud over rapid transit, Katz gripes
Description: MAYOR Sam Katz said yesterday the hidden cost of snazzy new buses for the city'slong-planned rapid transit system has left him skeptical about the project
Description: PAUL Zalac had a good excuse for being late at the first of 10 workshops hosted by the city's rapid transit task force last night — he missed his bus
Description: Winnipeggers want a fast, comfortable and environmentally friendly rapid transitsystem to replace city buses they say run too rarely and are too slow
Description: MAYOR Sam Katz said yesterday he is committed to cutting the city's multi-million dollar consulting budget even though he has hired three consulting firms to help his new transit task force
Unofficial Winnipeg Transit Online - 2004 - Mayors revive rapid transit
Description: TORONTO — Winnipeg could have an extra $25 million for roads and transit next year if Ottawa agrees to a new-deal strategy hatched yesterday by Canada's big-city mayors
Unofficial Winnipeg Transit Online - 2004 - EDITORIAL: Missed the bus
Description: City council yesterday voted to delay a start on the construction of a bus rapid transit system for Winnipeg
Unofficial Winnipeg Transit Online - 2004 - Rapid transit 'critical': Murray
Description: FORMER mayor Glen Murray says rapid transit is a critical weapon in the battle against urban sprawl and could save cities money in the long run
Unofficial Winnipeg Transit Online - 2004 - LETTER: Transit not working
Description: Yet again the city has decided to embark on another program to reduce ridership as a means of finally getting rid of public transit in Winnipeg
Description: MAYOR Sam Katz unveiled his transit task force yesterday, droppinga loud hint that a light rail system could be the answer to the city'sbus woes
Unofficial Winnipeg Transit Online - 2004 - OP-ED: Rail better than bus for rapid transit
Description: THE recent vote by which Winnipeg city council repudiated bus rapid transit (BRT) for the second time since 1990 illustrated the pitfalls of political calcuations muscling aside technical and popul
Unofficial Winnipeg Transit Online - 2004 - Katz puts brakes on (bus) rapid transit
Description: MAYOR Sam Katz made it official yesterday, asking his cabinet to delay rapid transit and set up a task force to study the issue further
Unofficial Winnipeg Transit Online - 2004 - Katz wants rapid transit delayed for study
Description: MAYOR Sam Katz wants to delay construction of the city's rapid transit corridor because he says the city has failed to do any studies on the project
Description: Mayor Sam Katz, who wants to revisit a long-planned rapid transit corridor, wrote a glowing letter in support of the project last year
Description: TWO city councillors grilled Mayor Sam Katz at yesterday's council meeting, cementing theirreputation as city hall's unofficial opposition
Unofficial Winnipeg Transit Online - 2004 - EDITORIAL: Mr. Katz shuffles
Description: MAYOR Sam katz sent many signals when he shuffled his executive policy committee this week
Unofficial Winnipeg Transit Online - 2004 - Katz stalls (bus) rapid transit
Description: MAYOR Sam Katz effectively killed rapid transit yesterday, saying he would instead spend $43 million fixing aging community clubs and building new recreation centres
Unofficial Winnipeg Transit Online - 2004 - EDITORIAL: New mass transit deal
Description: WHEN Mayor Sam Katz said No to a new mass transit system for Winnipeg on Tuesday, he made his No sound as much as possible like Yes
Unofficial Winnipeg Transit Online - 2005 - LETTER: Lots aren't the answer
Description: Regarding the article Parking stall, May 8:
Unofficial Winnipeg Transit Online - 2005 - LETTER: LRT is smooth, quiet
Description: I find myself in total disagreement with the views expressed by Peter Holle in
Unofficial Winnipeg Transit Online - 2005 - LETTER: Headline
Description: I noted with interest the picture of the crane putting the turbine on the windmillat St
Description: The federal government is revisiting how $167 million in federal gas-tax funding will bedistributed in Manitoba, easing tensions between the city and Ottawa, at least temporarily
Description: Montreal — Prime Minister Paul Martin yesterday formally appointed Glen Murray to head a federal environmental advisory board over the objection of a Commons committee that rejected his patro
Unofficial Winnipeg Transit Online - 2004 - LETER: You'll still be riding a bus
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Unofficial Winnipeg Transit Online - 2004 - LETTER: Rail, not bus answer for city
Description: I appreciate Gerald Flood's Sept
Unofficial Winnipeg Transit Online - 2004 - LETTER: LRT draws citizens back to downtown
Description: The fact that rapid transit acts as a strong impetus for infill development is one of the most persuasive reasons for building such a system in Winnipeg
Description: If you're Treasury Board President Reg Alcock and you need a savvy political advisor to watch over your affairs back in Manitoba, who you gonna call?
Description: A Mississauga-based transportation think tank will relocate to Winnipeg, officials from the province and the University of Winnipeg announced yesterday
Unofficial Winnipeg Transit Online - 2005 - Surface parking driving higher land costs
Description: One hundred years ago, Winnipeg's economy was booming, and land costs were equal to those in Chicago
Unofficial Winnipeg Transit Online - 2005 - LETTER: Headline
Description: Regarding the Express bus service in Winnipeg
Unofficial Winnipeg Transit Online - 2005 - City questions provinces new (gas-tax) funding program
Description: Mayor Sam Katz and some city councillors say the new funding deal promised in last week's provincial budget may not be so new after all
Description: About the next phase in this city's light-rail project
Unofficial Winnipeg Transit Online - 2005 - LETTER: What about (mass) transit (to airport)?
Description: Winnipeg has been involved with discussions about our future transit needs in councilmeetings and transit workshops, all to good purpose
Description: A parade of public transit users offered their advice on how to overhaul the city's bus system yesterday,but members of the transit task force are still mum on which model they favour
Unofficial Winnipeg Transit Online - 2005 - Parking Stall
Description: Joe Diner, president of JJ Barnicke commercial real estate, saysthe city's downtown parking lots are key to vibrant city
Description: A city task force is unveiling its vision of Winnipeg's transit future today — a $312-million overhaul that includes a dozen bus rapid transit lines reaching deep into every city
Description: NOTHING, say free-market fanatics, stimulates an economy like tax cuts
Unofficial Winnipeg Transit Online - 2005 - LETTER: Award honoured the real not 'the fake'
Description: Much more telling (particularly in light of efforts in progress to determine whether Winnipeg should build a rapid-transit system and if so, in what form) than Alan Forsythe's rote account of Jennifer
Unofficial Winnipeg Transit Online - 1998 - Transit News
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Unofficial Winnipeg Transit Online - 1996 - Transit News
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Unofficial Winnipeg Transit Online - 2004 - Latest BRT 'report' stuffed full of holes
Description: If you take the time to read the latest "independent study" praising Winnipeg's proposed bus rapid transit, you'll find that it's not really a study at all
Description: Once you get past all the glossy photos, fancy maps and glitzy video images, there's not much substance behind the city's official unveiling of a proposed rapid-transit plan for Winnipeg
Unofficial Winnipeg Transit Online - 2004 - Decision smart, refreshing
Description: The most stunning revelation out of yesterday's city council debate on the ill-fated bus rapid transit system was not that Coun
Description: OTTAWA (CP) — Tuesday;s federal budget will include substantial funding for public transit inmajor cities, including help with a $1
Unofficial Winnipeg Transit Online - 2004 - Transit boss up in arms: Slams advisor over BRT
Description: The head of Winnipeg's transit system has accused a senior mayoral advisor of misleading Mayor Sam Katz on the merits of a rapid transit project
Unofficial Winnipeg Transit Online - 2004 - Jenham's whine and cheese party grates
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Description: Winnipeg's rapid transit plan is officially off the tracks
Unofficial Winnipeg Transit Online - 2004 - Katz Nixes BRT
Description: Winnipeggers will have to wait longer for a rapid transit bus system after Mayor Sam Katz yesterday pulled the $50 million earmarked to launch the project
Unofficial Winnipeg Transit Online - 1981 - Transit Tom thumbing fuel guzzlers
Description: Winnipeg Transit has decided that smaller is better — at last for buses operating on many of its less-busy "feeder" routes
Unofficial Winnipeg Transit Online - 1982 - Alternative Propulsion Study
Description: The future of the city's transit system and the possibility of bringingback trolley buses will probably be determined by a report that was two yearsin the making
Unofficial Winnipeg Transit Online - 1983 - City seeks bus bargain
Description: In an attempt to get the most bus for its buck, the city is going to bid on 56 slightly used buses offered by Calgary Transit
Unofficial Winnipeg Transit Online - 1986 - Winnipeg Warms To Telebus
Description: A new computerized telephone bus route information system was announced byMayor Bill Norrie
Unofficial Winnipeg Transit Online - 1988 - Proposal pans Charleswood corridor
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Description: The saying goes you can't squeeze blood from a stone
Unofficial Winnipeg Transit Online - 1993 - Transit will lose riders if fares hiked, city told
Description: The city will lose riders and cash if it increases bus fares by another dime,a transit supporter and U of M graduate student warned
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Unofficial Winnipeg Transit Online - 1998 - LETTER: Pro-transit group needs volunteers
Description: There is a new citizens group that needs your help
Unofficial Winnipeg Transit Online - 1998 - Modern transit system overdue
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Unofficial Winnipeg Transit Online - 1999 - 'Peg car-friendly city
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Description: Parking problems surrounding the baseball park at The Forks have several playersstriking out
Description: Only a modernization of Winnipeg's public transportation system will saveit from a dependency on annual fare hikes, Transit director Rick Borlandsays
Unofficial Winnipeg Transit Online - 2004 - Cutting-edge questions on BRT
Description: Thirty questions (if you read closely, you will find more than 30 — this pundit overdelivers; I am just trying to make up for all my colleagues who underachieve, poor saps!) for those of you who
Unofficial Winnipeg Transit Online - 2004 - Remember Who's The Boss
Description: People like Winnipeg Transit director Rick Borland appear to have missed something over the summer
Unofficial Winnipeg Transit Online - 2004 - Mayor does right things
Description: I go away for three days and Mayor Sam Katz kills rapid transit and deep-sixesthe dink diner
Description: Winnipeg's rapid transit system has hit another roadblock and could be stalled for good
Unofficial Winnipeg Transit Online - 2004 - Forget rapid transit
Description: Premier Gary Doer says he won't stand in the way if Mayor Sam Katz wants to re-negotiate the funding agreement for the controversial rapid transit project, saying the new mayor has the "democrati
Unofficial Winnipeg Transit Online - 2004 - BRT the boost this city needs
Description: It's already hit a few bumps, but the city's rapid transit plan must not be allowed to derail
Unofficial Winnipeg Transit Online - 2004 - Rapid transit a costly ride?
Description: The city could be given a rough ride when it attempts to purchase land for its rapid transit route, councillors and realtors say
Unofficial Winnipeg Transit Online - 2004 - 'Attacks' on transit boss never happened
Description: Former Winnipeg Transit director Rick Borland quit his job this past week after being "slagged" by Mayor Sam Katz's staff
Description: Winnipeg bus riders will bask in roadside shelters radiating solar-powered heat while reading sun-powered signs if the city's transit service makes headway with a pair of experiments
Unofficial Winnipeg Transit Online - 2004 - Short-term thinking
Description: When I asked mayoral candidate Dan Vandal to provide me with a cost-benefit analysis to justify plans to build a rapid transit system for Winnipeg, he handed me a copy of a one-page e-mail written by
Unofficial Winnipeg Transit Online - 2004 - Katz to check out Ottawa LRT system
Description: Don't be quick to assume Winnipeg's rapid transit prospects are off the rails
Description: After riding aboard one of Ottawa's fancy commuter trains, Mayor Sam Katz wants to look at building a light rail transit system here
Unofficial Winnipeg Transit Online - 2004 - Is rapid transit doomed? New mayor wants review
Description: Winnipeg's new mayor is considering hitting the brakes on the rapid transit project
Unofficial Winnipeg Transit Online - 2004 - LETTER: LRT Myth Put to Rest
Description: Re: Katz considers LRT (Ross Romaniuk, Nov
Unofficial Winnipeg Transit Online - 2004 - Why settle for less than best?
Description: A bus rapid transit system is no more than a glorified express bus system
Description: For all the new money the city of Winnipeg is getting from senior levels of governments, there sure is a lot of whining going on at city hall these days
Unofficial Winnipeg Transit Online - 2005 - Manila transit inspires Katz
Description: Mayor Sam Katz's search for the best transit system for Winnipeg — and more immigrants to boost the city's population — has reached Southeast Asia
Unofficial Winnipeg Transit Online - 2005 - Murray Gains Post: Critics blast PM for cronyism
Description: Prime Minister Paul Martin is the same old Liberal, appointing "political hacks" and "cronies" to patronage heaven just like his Grit predecessors, Tory and NDP critics grumbled
Unofficial Winnipeg Transit Online - 2005 - City gassed on gas revenue?
Description: Winnipeg taxpayers may want to wait before thanking the Doer government for its fuel-tax handout to the city -- the transfer announced last week might be less generous than they've been led to beli
Unofficial Winnipeg Transit Online - 2005 - You Can't Lose What You Don't Have
Description: Mayor Sam Katz didn't lose $43 million from the three levels of government to spruce up community centres, after putting the kibosh on bus rapid transit -- a pie-in-the-sky brain fart that was based o
Unofficial Winnipeg Transit Online - 2005 - It's rapid transit deja-vu: City eyeing a new plan
Description: Just when they appeared to have crashed, Winnipeg's rapid transit hopes are back on the rails with a proposal for high-tech buses and downtown trains
Unofficial Winnipeg Transit Online - 1940 - New Winnipeg Electric Officers
Description: Edward Anderson, K
Unofficial Winnipeg Transit Online - 1940 - William H. Carter New President Of Winnipeg Electric
Description: William H
Unofficial Winnipeg Transit Online - 1941 - Proposed Street Railway Franchise Is Made Public
Description: The special transportation committee of the city council made public Tuesday a proposed franchise to replace the agreement under which the street railway has operated for the last half century
Unofficial Winnipeg Transit Online - 1942 - Increased Earnings Assist City Budgeteers
Description: Earnings of the Winnipeg Electric company were up almost half a million dollars in 1941 from their 1940 level and the company would consequently pay higher taxes in 1942, the city treasurer informe
Unofficial Winnipeg Transit Online - 1942 - Streetcars Carry Extra Ten Million
Description: Increases — tremendous in transportation; relatively small in electric power, and fairin gas and coke sales, but all increases — were reported by the Winnipeg Electric Co
Unofficial Winnipeg Transit Online - 1943 - Trams, Buses Carry 80 Million Riders
Description: More passengers than ever to transport, no additional equipment obtainable to do the job, difficulty in securing repair parts to keep present equipment operating and a shortage of manpower to maint
Description: The Winnipeg Electric Co
Unofficial Winnipeg Transit Online - 1944 - W.E.Co. Reports Big Increase in Business
Description: Shareholders of the Winnipeg Electric company were told at the annual meetingMonday by W
Unofficial Winnipeg Transit Online - 1944 - More Information Is Sought As to Tram Fare Reduction
Description: Further information with respect to the operations of the Winnipeg Electric railway must be obtained before application for a reduction in fares is made to the public utility board, the special com
Unofficial Winnipeg Transit Online - 1945 - New Trolley Bus In Operation
Description: The first of a new group of trolley buses has arrived in Winnipeg and is now in operation
Unofficial Winnipeg Transit Online - 1945 - Action to Speed Trolley Buses ForNorth-End
Description: City council Monday evening gave permission to the Winnipeg Electric Co
Unofficial Winnipeg Transit Online - 1946 - Tram Conversion Program Outlined
Description: Subject to the ability to get equipment and street improvements, the order of modernization of the Winnipeg Electric Company's transportation system up to and including 1949 was presented Wednesday to
Unofficial Winnipeg Transit Online - 1946 - 1945 Winnipeg Electric Earnings At Record High
Description: Although the Winnipeg Electric company ad its all-time record earnings yar in 1945 it closed that year with its surplus account practically unchanged at $1,834,619 an increase of $5,735 over the 1944
Description: Academy Road and Stafford St
Description: C
Unofficial Winnipeg Transit Online - 1948 - City Challenges Tram Depreciation Figures
Description: Special counsel for Winnipeg Electric, C
Unofficial Winnipeg Transit Online - 1948 - Street Car Track On Corydon to Go
Description: Despite a warning that the move might jeopardize winter transit service on the street, civic improvements committee Tuesday decided to go ahead with improvements to the Corydon Ave
Unofficial Winnipeg Transit Online - 1948 - Dahl Attacks City Transit Earnings Tax
Description: The city's five per cent tax on Winnipeg Electric Co
Unofficial Winnipeg Transit Online - 1948 - Tram Firm Charged With $495,000 Error
Description: Excessive charges by Winnipeg Electric Co
Unofficial Winnipeg Transit Online - 1948 - Trams Fear Passenger Drop, Revenue Cut
Description: The new transit fare schedule will bring an additional revenue of$500,000 a year to the Winnipeg Electric Co
Unofficial Winnipeg Transit Online - 1948 - Tram Firm Attacks 'Opinion' on Profits
Description: R
Unofficial Winnipeg Transit Online - 1948 - Trolley charges rapped by city
Description: G
Unofficial Winnipeg Transit Online - 1948 - Winnipeg Electric '47 Surplus Up $549,000
Description: (The) earned surplus account of the Winnipeg Electric company was increased $538,747
Unofficial Winnipeg Transit Online - 1949 - Academy Road Area Charges Bus Damage
Description: Residents living on and near Academy Road have decided to protest to city council against property damage caused by trolley bus vibration
Unofficial Winnipeg Transit Online - 1949 - Cost Prohibits Trolley Change For Vibration
Description: Winnipeg Electric Company was doing all in its power to reduce vibration to houses from trolley buses but no changes to bus design could be countenanced because of prohibitive costs
Unofficial Winnipeg Transit Online - 1949 - Routes Change For Tram Cars In City Today
Description: East Kildonan and Morse Place street car service will combine with Osborne St
Unofficial Winnipeg Transit Online - 1949 - Bus to Run on Grosvenor, Ending Six-Month Battle
Description: Bus service for commuters in River Heights will begin a regular run on Grosvenor Ave
Unofficial Winnipeg Transit Online - 1949 - New River Heights Bus Starts Sunday
Description: The new River Heights bus service from the downtown area to Lanark at Haskins via River, Grosvenor and Haskins Aves
Unofficial Winnipeg Transit Online - 1949 - City Suburbs Study BetterBus Service, Lower Fares
Description: Winnipeg Electric Company officials agreed Friday to investigate possibility of additional transportation service for St
Unofficial Winnipeg Transit Online - 1949 - Routes Change For Tram Cars In City Today
Description: East Kildonan and Morse Place street car service will combine with Osborne St
Unofficial Winnipeg Transit Online - 1949 - Fort Garry Bus Loss Contested
Description: Fort Garry residents Tuesday contested the Winnipeg Electric Company's figure of a $125 daily loss on their bus route
Unofficial Winnipeg Transit Online - 1950 - Union Warning Spurs Action
Description: Winnipeg's transit operators warned the city Friday they would no longer be responsible for passengers' safety on overcrowded buses and streetcars
Unofficial Winnipeg Transit Online - 1950 - Track Replacement Opposed by W. E. Co.
Description: Paving the whole width of Portage Ave
Unofficial Winnipeg Transit Online - 1952 - St. Boniface Agrees to Try Bus Route
Description: St
Unofficial Winnipeg Transit Online - 1953 - Can trams pay their way?
Description: In the autumn of 1951 the Winnipeg City Council hired Norman D
Unofficial Winnipeg Transit Online - 1953 - EDITORIAL: Transit Referendum
Description: In the Referendum on Wednesday, Winnipeg electors stated emphatically that they want the mass transit facilities of the metropolitan area owned and operated by the people of Greater Winnipeg
Unofficial Winnipeg Transit Online - 1954 - Aldermen Criticize Street Car Service
Description: Complaints about transit service in Winnipeg was aired Wednesday at a meeting of the city's public safety committee
Unofficial Winnipeg Transit Online - 1954 - Bus Line Extension Set in City
Description: A $1,000,000 plan for modernizing and extending the present transit system has been approved by the Greater Winnipeg Transit Commission, it was announced today
Unofficial Winnipeg Transit Online - 1954 - Elmwood, East Kildonan To Get Trolley Service
Description: (The) first step in recently announced plans to further modernizeand improve Winnipeg's transit system was taken Tuesday when civicpublic works committee approved construction of trolley bus overheadd
Unofficial Winnipeg Transit Online - 1954 - 100 Per Cent Hike Asked in Zone Fares
Description: Zone bus fares may be doubled by the Transit Commission
Unofficial Winnipeg Transit Online - 1955 - The Longest Bus Route in the City
Description: Greater Winnipeg's longest bus trip will go into operation Sunday a circuitous 45-minute, 9
Unofficial Winnipeg Transit Online - 1955 - Bus Service Merits Argued by Queuers
Description: How long did you have to wait for a bus this morning?
Unofficial Winnipeg Transit Online - 1957 - EDITORIAL: Introduction of Express Route
Description: The Greater Winnipeg Transit Commission has announced its first tentative step towards a policy of service, which may help to cut traffic congestion in the downtown area
Unofficial Winnipeg Transit Online - 1957 - Express Bus Catching On
Description: The Assiniboia express, a non-stop bus service for transit passengers between downtown and St
Unofficial Winnipeg Transit Online - 1958 - Expert to Study Subway for Winnipeg
Description: An internationally-known authority on public transit has been retained to study the possibility of a new transit system for Winnipeg, the Greater Winnipeg Transit Commission announced today
Unofficial Winnipeg Transit Online - 1959 - Subway for City? Buses Can't Cope: Blumberg
Description: A subway for Greater Winnipeg probably will be suggested in a survey of the area's transit problems, due for release in the next two weeks, Jack Blumberg, Greater Winnipeg Transit Commission chairman
Unofficial Winnipeg Transit Online - 1959 - EDITORIAL: Looking at Subways
Description: The Greater Winnipeg subway report is a surprise — an unheralded survey that contains what looks like an effective solution to the problem of traffic congestion in the metropolitan area
Unofficial Winnipeg Transit Online - 1959 - A $259 Million Question - Who Will Pay for Subway
Description: The idea of subway trains roaring under the heart of downtown Winnipeg has caught municipal and provincial officials unawares
Unofficial Winnipeg Transit Online - 1959 - Subway Cost Estimated At $449 Million
Description: Greater Winnipeg Transit Commission wants to start within five years construction of a cross-town subway system which would see citizens travelling in trains deep under Portage Ave
Unofficial Winnipeg Transit Online - 1959 - 3 (Subway) Routes Suggested For City
Description: Three underground tube routes, spaced with passenger stations, were suggested in the Norman Wilson report on
Unofficial Winnipeg Transit Online - 1959 - Subway Report Highlights
Description: No Description
Unofficial Winnipeg Transit Online - 1959 - Subway For City No Pipe Dream
Description: Is it a pipe dream, this talk of a subway for Winnipeg? Probably the average taxpayer is "flabbergasted" at the sum involved, $200 to $300 million — nobody knows how much
Unofficial Winnipeg Transit Online - 1959 - EDITORIAL: The Subway Report
Description: The Wilson Report suggesting a 23-mile long subway for this city will probably be regarded as a controversial and unrealistic document by a considerable number of Winnipeggers
Unofficial Winnipeg Transit Online - 1959 - We'd Travel Underneath Lake Agassiz
Description: Recent and ancient history would surround travellers in any subway built in Greater Winnipeg
Unofficial Winnipeg Transit Online - 1960 - Another Route for Berry Bus
Description: The Greater Winnipeg Transit Commission has decided to re-route the Berry bus again after a re-routing proved not successful a few weeks ago
Unofficial Winnipeg Transit Online - 1960 - Express Bus Routes Start
Description: Winnipeg will have its new expresss bus service Monday
Unofficial Winnipeg Transit Online - 1960 - Perhaps a Start (of Subway) In '71
Description: The Greater Winnipeg Transit Commission today suggested that Metro government consider a rapid transit subway system for Greater Winnipeg, but agreed it would be premature to plan for immediate constr
Unofficial Winnipeg Transit Online - 1961 - Transit Never Loses on the Horse Races
Description: Metro has been losing heavily on its normal transit services — but for the past six weeks it's been winning steadily on the horses
Unofficial Winnipeg Transit Online - 1962 - Metro To Decide (Pulberry) Bus Route
Description: Despite strong objections from a homeowners delegation, St
Unofficial Winnipeg Transit Online - 1962 - Bus Subsidy Supported (by City of St. James)
Description: The City of St
Unofficial Winnipeg Transit Online - 1962 - Transit Subsidy Urged in Briefs By Area Councils
Description: The principle of providing a subsidy to metro's money-losing transit system was supported Tuesday in briefs presented by the municipalities to metro's special committee on transit
Unofficial Winnipeg Transit Online - 1962 - (West Kildonan Mayor says) Aid To Transit May Raise COst
Description: West Kildonan Mayor C
Unofficial Winnipeg Transit Online - 1962 - EDITORIAL: Transit Tom on Wrong Bus
Description: This newspaper has maintained for some time that the whole approach to public transit should be revised in the light of modern experience in city planning
Unofficial Winnipeg Transit Online - 1962 - Transit report hints of failure
Description: Metro's long-awaited transit report was unanimously accepted by metro council Tuesday with what amounted to sober confessions of defeat
Unofficial Winnipeg Transit Online - 1962 - Transit subsidy Urged in Briefs by Area Councils
Description: The principle of providing a subsidy to metro's money-losing transit system was supported Tuesday in briefs presented by the municipalities to metro's special committee on transit
Description: Metro has now come out with its grand design, the purpose of its being
Unofficial Winnipeg Transit Online - 1963 - Metro Master Plan 2 - Removing guesswork from land use
Description: The land development plan prepared by Metro is a savings plan for Winnipeg
Unofficial Winnipeg Transit Online - 1979 - Fast transit system urged so fares can 'get along'
Description: The development plan for Metro is a cautious report
Description: Metro planners aim to launch a full-scale attack on civic disease known as urban sprawl
Unofficial Winnipeg Transit Online - 1964 - (East St. Paul's Transit problem
Description: East St
Unofficial Winnipeg Transit Online - 1964 - Metro changes St. Anne's, Grant bus routes
Description: Riders of Metro's St
Unofficial Winnipeg Transit Online - 1964 - ...Subway: To attract riders to transit system
Description: No Description
Unofficial Winnipeg Transit Online - 1966 - Bigger and better bus base
Description: Transit Tom has come up with a way of winning the space race
Unofficial Winnipeg Transit Online - 1967 - Bird's Hill bus service may cut transit loses
Description: Metro councillors have decided the corporation's in-the-red transit system might make some money if it can get exclusive rights for bus service to Bird's Hill Provincial Park
Unofficial Winnipeg Transit Online - 1967 - Expo's train for Metro?
Description: For $3
Unofficial Winnipeg Transit Online - 1967 - Wolfe proposes rapid transit for Metro area
Description: Metro Councillor Bernie Wolfe Wednesday night suggested establishment of a rapid-transit service between Winnipeg and the suburbs
Unofficial Winnipeg Transit Online - 1968 - Metro opens 'doors' on new bus shelters
Description: Metro councillors and transit officials were on hand at 8:45 a
Unofficial Winnipeg Transit Online - 1968 - EDITORIAL: Sic Transit
Description: Metro has begun to eliminate trolley buses from the mass transit system
Unofficial Winnipeg Transit Online - 1969 - Metro transportation study: Cost of getting there
Description: There will be 109 per cent more cars travelling on Metro Winnipeg streetsin 1999, according to Metro's Area Transportation Study
Unofficial Winnipeg Transit Online - 1969 - Bus fare boosted to 25 cents?
Description: Winnipeg bus fares are going up
Unofficial Winnipeg Transit Online - 1969 - Will city walk to work in 25 years?
Description: Unless something revolutionary is done, people in the Metro area will be walking to work 25 years from now
Unofficial Winnipeg Transit Online - 1969 - Keep Trolleys': City
Description: Winnipeg city council will ask Metro not to phase out any more trolley buses — all in the interest of combating air pollution
Unofficial Winnipeg Transit Online - 1969 - EDITORIAL: Transit needs
Description: The major reasons for the Metro Corporation's decision to apply for an increase in transit fares is the mounting burden on real property
Description: Only one regular Metro Transit bus route makes money
Unofficial Winnipeg Transit Online - 1969 - Metro transportation study: The dream of a subway...
Description: People on the move — travelling 5
Unofficial Winnipeg Transit Online - 1969 - Transit Tom's case for U bus route along Cambridge . . .
Description: Buses will be travelling along Cambridge St
Unofficial Winnipeg Transit Online - 1970 - Metro refuses to alter route of Unibus run
Description: Metro has refused to change Unibus service on Lindsay Street following a stormy session with residents of the street in River Heights
Unofficial Winnipeg Transit Online - 1970 - River Heights group fights Unibus plans
Description: Fears that the proposed charter bus service for University of Manitoba students will depreciate property values have been expressed by some River Heights residents
Unofficial Winnipeg Transit Online - 1970 - Subway system advocated
Description: Metro council will be urged to abandon immediately preparations for a western freeway in favor of a rapid transit system under Portage Avenue
Unofficial Winnipeg Transit Online - 1970 - Transit Tom: no single solution acceptable to all
Description: Ask the average urban dweller why he prefers to drive his car to work instead of riding a bus and, indirectly, he will tell you why public transit systems the continent over are unable to make a profi
Unofficial Winnipeg Transit Online - 1970 - Val Werier: Why not a subway for Winnipeg?
Description: Highway Minister Joe Borowski suggested last week that the Metro transit system be made so attractive that motorists would leave their cars at home
Unofficial Winnipeg Transit Online - 1971 - Unibus compromise reached: Route partly changed
Description: Metro's transportation committee and the University of Manitoba students' union have agreed to what they term a "compromise change" in a controversial Unibus route through the Fort Rouge are
Unofficial Winnipeg Transit Online - 1972 - Changes ahead for bus routes
Description: Winnipeg Transit will introduce a number of route changes on Sunday and Tuesday, with the major changes affecting the Charleswood and Tuxedo areas
Unofficial Winnipeg Transit Online - 1973 - Unibus set to operate for 4th year
Description: Unibus, the speedy transit bus system chartered by the Universtiy of Manitoba Students' Union, enters its fourth year of operation this year
Description: If you ride Winnipeg transit buses during rush hours — practising that five-days-a-week exercise in self-punishment known as commuting — you'll easily believe these are the most heavily us
Unofficial Winnipeg Transit Online - 1979 - EDITORIAL: Express lanes sensible, but . . .
Description: City councillors have the fastest guns in the west when it comes to pulling out studies and reports
Unofficial Winnipeg Transit Online - 1979 - Fast transit system urged so fares can 'get along'
Description: The city must move toward a transit system which will speed people to and from work because passengers don't enjoy the company of others, the city's transit manager said Wednesday
Unofficial Winnipeg Transit Online - 1980 - City backward on electric buses: Piercy
Description: A recommendation to launch a $150,000 study into the feasibility of converting the transit system to "non-petroleum power sources" has raised the ire of Coun
Unofficial Winnipeg Transit Online - 1980 - Maybe the Trolleys Will Make Comback
Description: Somebody was talking rather wistfully the other day about the era of the big electric interurbans which served Winnipeg and district so faithfully for many years and finally lost out with the coming o
Description: With one eye on the energy crisis, there is a growing interest in traction transportation these days in many communities
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