Portage and Main
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« Previous 1 … 14 15 16 … 24 Next »Steek bases comeback bid on crime as top issue
August 15, 2018
Winnipeg Free Press - ...Garry by focusing on the issues he said have become an epidemic in Winnipeg Forget potholes, slow buses and the debate over the opening of Portage and Main. One council candidate said the major concern in the civic election campaign is crime and public safety. Forget potholes, slow buses and the debate...
Motkaluk outlines transit plans: new routes, more electric buses
August 14, 2018
Winnipeg Free Press - ...to her transit promises, Motkaluk has previously outlined positions on expanding the police-in-schools initiative and keeping pedestrians out of the Portage and Main intersection. In contrast, Bowman said last week that he wouldn’t begin campaigning in earnest until after the September council meeting. ...
No plan? Then no pedestrians at Portage and Main: trucking association
August 13, 2018
Winnipeg Free Press - ...add a form of payment and pay only 27¢ per article. “If you want to go east to west or north to south, our city is hub-and-spoke and that hub is Portage and Main. It’s the dead centre of our city,” Shaw said. “Our alternatives to avoiding that intersection are incredibly limited and as such it is a...
Letters and comments, Aug. 11
August 13, 2018
Winnipeg Free Press - ...levelling the centre and allowing crosswalkers and drivers to see each other. SHAN HOLMES Winnipeg A future with fewer cars Re: A wrong turn on Portage and Main (Aug. 8) Thanks to Brent Bellamy for introducing facts and evidence on the matter of opening Portage and Main to pedestrians. To his article, I...
Winnipeg’s $10M question is more about politicking than Portage and Main
August 11, 2018
CBC Manitoba - ...times the cost of opening up the intersection? The ability to avoid trains on Waverley Street will have even less of an effect on me than opening Portage and Main, but given the relative cost of the two projects, as a taxpayer I'd choose to vote on the former. Downtown residents, people who work downtown and...
City to go ahead with contract on Portage and Main underground concourse
August 10, 2018
Winnipeg Sun - ...for both the underground repair and above-ground contracts. Coun. Jeff Browaty (North Kildonan), council’s most vocal opponent of foot traffic at Portage and Main, said he doesn’t object to the concourse contract. But he hopes the city will seek financial support for whatever underground investments it deems...
For women, opening Portage and Main is a safety issue
August 10, 2018
Winnipeg Free Press - ...in the northwest area of downtown. Between 2011 and 2015, 22.9 per cent of assaults in this area occurred in South Portage, a zone which includes Portage and Main. Winnipeg became the first Canadian city to join the UN Global Safe Cities Initiative in 2013. This initiative aims to reduce harassment and sexual...
Panhandling plan lacks details, timelines
August 9, 2018
Winnipeg Free Press - ... When asked by reporters what the barriers would look like, Mr. Bowman said he wouldn't call them barriers. "Barriers," after all, evoke Portage and Main, an intersection that does not have a panhandling issue, but is still problematic for the mayor for its own unique set of reasons. On its face, the...
Shedding light on Portage and Main
August 8, 2018
Winnipeg Free Press - ...by a total of 54 seconds (cumulative delay for all cars/number of cars). Last year, the respected engineering firm Dillon Consulting completed the Portage and Main Transportation Study, a comprehensive 95-page document which looked at the effects of introducing pedestrians at each corner, during both the...
A wrong turn for mayoral candidate
August 7, 2018
Winnipeg Free Press - ...face delays of up to 50 seconds. Facebook and Twitter were alight with debate between citizens in favour and opposed to pedestrian traffic at Portage and Main. Last week, we got to see the first serious week of campaigning in the referendum on whether to reopen Portage and Main. In short, it was a...