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Originally Posted by furiousmcd
It would be a huge disappointment to have waited out the last fifty years of studies and blunders to get something that flows with the rest of traffic like a streetcar. There are reasons that our old streetcar was dismantled that would still pose a problem. Perhaps the most major problem is it would slow down the rest of traffic and eliminate parking spots. The streetcar they have in Toronto has this problem.
If Winnipeg is going to invest in rapid transit, it needs to be on its own separate right of way.
It should either be on a different thoroughfare or above/below the ground. This way it can have a strictly positive impact on traffic and surrounding business instead of a cause of constant problems and headaches.
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Any transit plan for Winnipeg should have both a streetcar network for the downtown core and a rapid transit network for the whole city. The two are not mutually exclusive.
Here's a rapid transit plan that I made that fits with streetcar
http://maps.google.com/maps/ms?ie=UT...&t=k&z=12&om=1