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The Winnipeg Tribune
December 16, 1952

St. Boniface Agrees to Try Bus Route

St. Boniface traffic committee Monday accepted a new Winnipeg Electric Co. motor bus routing in Norwood, St. Boniface, and voted that the proposed changes to be put into effect immediately on a trial basis.

The endorsement by traffic committee followed the presentation of a brief from a delegation of north-west Norwood residents.

The move would leave the new trolley-bus set-up on St. Mary's Road unchanged, but would recommend two immediate changes in motor-bus routes.

CONISTON-AULNEAU: Joining two bus routes now operating independently on a scheme similar to the Wolseley-Tache run.

It would operate one way along the present Coniston route and back to the city via St. Boniface, along Tache, Dollard, Langevin, Aulneau and Provencher streets.

On return from the downtown area, buses would circle a wide loop on Portage, Edmonton, Ellice and Notre Dame, and proceed in the opposite direction through St. Boniface and Norwood.

WOLSELEY-TACHE: A change in operating on Des Meurons, instead of turning west on Dubuc St., to continue south on Des Meurons to Niverville, (and possibly to Carriere) then back along St. Mary's Rd. to Tache. This would reach a larger area of South Norwood.

Marion St. motor buses would remain unchanged.

Most of the delegates heard Monday were merchants on Tache and Marion streets who had protested the original routing of trolley buses along St. Mary's Rd., stating that it would divert St. Vital and Norwood shopping district.