More than 200 north Winnipeg residents have signed a petition calling for the rerouting of the Aberdeen Avenue bus which they claim shakes, rattles and damages the neighbourhood.

"This bus is causing problems," Audrey Todd of 1076 Aberdeen said. "It's doing a lot of damage to homes.

Some of these homes are 100 years old and just can't take this vibrating and shaking up day after day."

Todd said Aberdeen homeowners report cracked foundations, splitting walls and ceilings, cracked windows, popped drywall nails and pictures constantly askew.

She said she's lived with the bus going by every 30 minutes for 19 years, but one day decided she'd had enough.

"I finally got fed up with it when the fuses in my house got loosened to the point where there was an arc and they melted," Todd said.

She said virtually everyone on the street attributes some of their housing troubles to the buses.

Residents appeared before the Lord Selkirk-West Kildonan community committee with their petition, asking that the service be rerouted on to Burrows or Redwood avenues.

Winnipeg Transit planning supervisor Bill Menzies said officials are preparing a report on the situation.

He said an average of 250 people ride the bus between 6:30 a.m. and 7 p.m. weekdays.

Menzies said Winnipeg Transit operates a smaller nine-meter Orion bus on the route because it runs through a residential neighbourhood.

One of the problems is that Aberdeen and most other streets in the area are only 7.3 meters wide, he said.

"We don't have too many alternatives. We'd just be moviig the problem somewhere else."

Menzies said transit officials have received numerous telephone calls from riders who want the route maintained.

But Todd's neighbour, Donna Langer, 25, said most transit users ii the area would have only a short walk if the bus were rerouted to Redwood.

Langer said the drywall in her house has been replaced three times in the last six years because of cracks from the vibrations.