Transit expert Norman D. Wilson points to eight basic values in the subway system which he has recommended for Greater Winnipeg.

The location of the routes is designed to:

1. Provide a basic metro transportation system of assured regularity, comfort and speed, and freedom from surface traffic congestion.
2. Provide a system most likely to satisfy the needs of passengers while producing the maximum economy of operation.
3. Remove from surface streets to a large degree the traffic which will be carried by "the great concentrations of new population expected by 1981."
4. Provide assured service in all conditions of weather and traffic.
5. Greatly reduce surface traffic on metropolitan Winnipeg's three heaviest-travelled streets — Portage Avenue, Main Street and the Osborne-Memorial-Isabel route.
6. Provide improved transit service from all sections of the metro areas to the new industrial areas in St. James and south Winnipeg, and to assured industrial development in St. Boniface and Transcona.
7. Provide four additional "gateways" of great capacity through the barrier created by the Red River.
8. Stabilize the central business area, save it from decay, and preserve its wealth and taxable values.