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• Unofficial Winnipeg Transit Online - Public Service News - May 1966 - Why Express Service?

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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 - 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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  • UnofficialWinnipeg Transit Online - 1999 - Parking Woes Hit Foul Ball —Alternative Forms of Transport to The Forks Needed NOW!

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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

    • Description: As you can see on the news in the past few days, oil corrupts the human condition

  • 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

    • Description: Recently I returned to Winnipeg from a three-week holiday on the outside

  • 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

  • Unofficial Winnipeg Transit Online - Winnipeg Area Transportation Study: Volume 1 Base Conditions (1966)

    • 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

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  • 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

  • Unofficial Winnipeg Transit Online - 1981 - Transit Tom's $50,000 survey to determine traffic demands

    • 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

  • Unofficial Winnipeg Transit Online - 1987 - Waiting for rapid transit: Winnipeg dusts off plans for transportation 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

  • Unofficial Winnipeg Transit Online - 1989 - Norrie eyes transit system: German light-rail model studied

    • 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

  • Unofficial Winnipeg Transit Online - 1990 - Transit draws grins, gripes: City bus can be crowded, slow, inconvenient way to travel, but

    • 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

  • Unofficial Winnipeg Transit Online - 2005 - Task force hears pleas to fix transit: "What I hate most is waiting for the bus"

    • 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

  • Unofficial Winnipeg Transit Online - 2005 - We want faster transit: Winnipeggers say buses too slow, too few, report reveals

    • Description: Winnipeggers want a fast, comfortable and environmentally friendly rapid transitsystem to replace city buses they say run too rarely and are too slow

  • Unofficial Winnipeg Transit Online - 2004 - Mayor vows to cut consultant budget: But hires three to help city's transit task force

    • 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

  • Unofficial Winnipeg Transit Online - 2004 - Katz unveils task force for transit: Strongly suggests he favours light rail system for 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

  • Unofficial Winnipeg Transit Online - 2004 - Katz flips on fast transit: Mayor wrote glowing letter of support, now wants to revisit 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

  • Unofficial Winnipeg Transit Online - 2004 - Katz grilled by unofficial opposition: Murray allies Benham, Gerbasi take mayor to task

    • 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

  • Unofficial Winnipeg Transit Online - 2005 - Feds reopening gas-tax deal: Decision could give Winnipeg greater share

    • 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

  • Unofficial Winnipeg Transit Online - 2005 - Murray's appointment draws fire: PM accused of cronyism after ignoring committee's objections

    • 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

  • Unofficial Winnipeg Transit Online - 2005 - Veteran city politician to work for Alcock: John Angus to be minister's new advisor

    • 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?

  • Unofficial Winnipeg Transit Online - 2005 - Transportation think-tank moves to U of W from Ontario: No jobs shifting to Winnipeg

    • 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

  • Unofficial Winnipeg Transit Online - 2005 - Ottawa is sort of like Winnipeg in reverse: Has lousy recreation, super transportation

    • 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

  • Unofficial Winnipeg Transit Online - 2005 - All options remain open, says city transit task force : Parade of bus users appears behind closed doors

    • 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

  • Unofficial Winnipeg Transit Online - 2005 - $312-M transit vision unveiled: City's 2-year plan includes fast buses, light-rail system

    • 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

  • Unofficial Winnipeg Transit Online - 2005 - OP-ED: Transit is essential to healthy heart for our city

    • Description: NOTHING, say free-market fanatics, stimulates an economy like tax cuts

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  • 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

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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

  • Unofficial Winnipeg Transit Online - 2004 - Rapid-transit ripoff: Officials foisting multi-million-dollar pig-in-a-poke on public

    • 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

    • Description: If you elected Coun

  • Unofficial Winnipeg Transit Online - 2004 - City halts BRT plans: Council votes 11-5 to put brakes on rapid transit

    • 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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  • Unofficial Winnipeg Transit Online - 1990 - Tackling Transit Tom: Civil disobedience urged to protest fee hike

    • 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

  • Unofficial Winnipeg Transit Online - 1997 - New threads for Transit Tom: Spiffy look - and savings, too

    • Description: No Description

  • 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

    • Description: No Description

  • Unofficial Winnipeg Transit Online - 1999 - 'Peg car-friendly city

    • Description: Montreal, St

  • Unofficial Winnipeg Transit Online - 1999 - Parking woes hit foul ball: Forks,Provencher merchants protest

    • Description: Parking problems surrounding the baseball park at The Forks have several playersstriking out

  • Unofficial Winnipeg Transit Online - 2002 - Upgrades urgent, bus boss says: Would curb fare hikes: Borland

    • 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

  • Unofficial Winnipeg Transit Online - 2004 - Another roadblock: New rapid transit study to stall project again

    • 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

  • Unofficial Winnipeg Transit Online - 2004 - Transit harnessing sun: Solar power could heat bus shelters

    • 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

  • Unofficial Winnipeg Transit Online - 2004 - Katz considers LRT: 'No reason we shouldn't explore this'

    • 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

  • Unofficial Winnipeg Transit Online - 2005 - Whining over lack of new $$ a crock: Plenty but how city spends it is the key