josh and borris, i agree completly...those are all very good points.
i just got back from the rugby world cup in france and spent some time in nice....they are right now constructing a tramway system throught the downtown...it looked so simple to build and will completely transform the city.....
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tramway_de_Nice
it made me so sad to live in a place with such a small minded attitude towards what a city should be.
winnipeg has no freeways because freeways cost money to build, not because we are any smarter than anyone else....our luck was a result of our backwards attitude not our vision.
btw josh, i apologize for not responding to your e-mail a while back...i read it and closed it to give you a proper response later, and then completely forgot....for what its worth, i know nothing about what is going on at that site...the developer is doing his own thing right now, without our involvement....i will let you know if anything comes up....i didnt even know there was anything happening there...neither did my boss....he was disturbed to find it out actually.