Winnipeg City Transit/Rapid Transit - Page 7

LilZebra · #**121** Posted **May 5, 2007, 1:14 AM**

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Originally Posted by spiritedenergy

you don't go very much downtown, do you? I guess you prefer your little plastic castle of Dairy Queens. Enjoy your suburban malls, you idiot, and Winnipeg will always be exactly what you want, a dead town.

For your information, moron, I've lived downtown since November '90 and have visited downtown since I was a babe in arms, so don't you go telling me I don't go downtown.

LilZebra · #**122** Posted **May 6, 2007, 6:07 AM**

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Originally Posted by spiritedenergy

that's absolutely untrue, there are very few drunk people on Graham and Portage, I like those streets very much.

Hmmm, that would make a great signature line, maybe to replace Haber's classic.

spiritedenergy · #**123** Posted **May 6, 2007, 6:12 AM**

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Originally Posted by jimj_wpg

Hmmm, that would make a great signature line, maybe to replace Haber's classic.

my dear, do you get anything better than that in Winnipeg? do you like Pembina highway for a walk?
Again, those streets have really improved enormously in just one year. And I'd still prefer walking in a semi-nice environment with people i'm not comfortable with that in a mall with all white and polite people, shopping for things they don't really need.
This attitude (i don't like natives so i don't go downtown) is what makes winnipeggers so awkward.

Smron · #**124** Posted **May 6, 2007, 6:16 AM**

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Originally Posted by spiritedenergy

my dear, do you get anything better than that in Winnipeg? do you like Pembina highway for a walk?
Again, those streets have really improved enormously in just one year. And I'd still prefer walking in a semi-nice environment with people i'm not comfortable with that in a mall with all white and polite people, shopping for things they don't really need.
This attitude (i don't like natives so i don't go downtown) is what makes winnipeggers so awkward.

Yeah, I hate polite people too. Assholes.

newflyer · #**125** Posted **May 6, 2007, 6:52 AM**

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Originally Posted by spiritedenergy

my dear, do you get anything better than that in Winnipeg? do you like Pembina highway for a walk?
Again, those streets have really improved enormously in just one year. And I'd still prefer walking in a semi-nice environment with people i'm not comfortable with that in a mall with all white and polite people, shopping for things they don't really need.
This attitude (i don't like natives so i don't go downtown) is what makes winnipeggers so awkward.

... well I agree and disagree ...

I mean I love suburban malls as much as anyone, but I subscribe to the method of spraying those polite bastards with stink spray.

This recreates the downtown experience both in smell and it also eliminates any polite behavior by those damn white folk.

If I can find a way to demoralize them to the point of willingly give up on life, my mission will be complete. Stink spray may not be enough. I tried to give them mouthwash, but they just used it to smell better ..

kool maudit · #**126** Posted **May 12, 2007, 12:29 PM**

just don't lose the orange buses. they are great in a 70s-social-studies-textbook-cover way. i wish we still had our green-and-cream streetcars here.

LilZebra · #**127** Posted **May 12, 2007, 5:33 PM**

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Originally Posted by kool maudit

just don't lose the orange buses. they are great in a 70s-social-studies-textbook-cover way. i wish we still had our green-and-cream streetcars here.

The orange coloured buses are not a 70s thing, but go back to the streetcar days of the earlier 20th century. It's called "traction orange".

http://world.nycsubway.org/us/boston/mattapan.html

Boston MTA Mattapan streetcar:

Image Courtesy of NYC Subway website

The Jabroni · #**128** Posted **May 12, 2007, 7:07 PM**

I just wish the city hadn't dropped the orange motif on all of the buses and focused on white as the new thang.

rgalston · #**129** Posted **May 12, 2007, 9:07 PM**

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Originally Posted by jimj_wpg

Image Courtesy of NYC Subway website

That's the kind of streetcar that Winnnipeg Electric Co. could have purchased after the war, instead of paying huge sums of money on ripping out street tracks and paving roads to accomodate trolley and diesel buses (oh yeah, the private cars, too). Same colors it would have had, too.

newflyer · #**130** Posted **May 13, 2007, 2:39 AM**

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Originally Posted by The Jabroni

I just wish the city hadn't dropped the orange motif on all of the buses and focused on white as the new thang.

Most cities are following the white concept .. its cheaper not to have to paint the buses. They are delivered white.. so just add some decals and you're on your way.

The new C-trains in Calgary aren't even getting the decals, just plan white.

spiritedenergy · #**131** Posted **May 13, 2007, 2:49 AM**

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Originally Posted by newflyer

Most cities are following the white concept .. its cheaper not to have to paint the buses. They are delivered white.. so just add some decals and you're on your way.

The new C-trains in Calgary aren't even getting the decals, just plan white.

that's pathetic IMHO.

204 · #**132** Posted **May 13, 2007, 2:57 AM**

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Originally Posted by newflyer

Winnipeg should follow Calgary's lead and ban panhandling 50 meters from any transit stop .. this would clean up most of Graham and downtown Portage.

It's a good idea, but who would enforce it?

viperred88 · #**133** Posted **May 13, 2007, 5:51 AM**

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Originally Posted by newflyer

I lived downtown Winnipeg for 6 years ... and I know for a fact that Graham and Portage were cluttered with some of the lowest forms of vagrants, bums and the generally uninspired I have ever seen.

If that somehow makes for a vibrant downtown then maybe its not worth it.... and lets not put down Dairy Queen.

Blizzards....

I wish there was one in downtown Winnipeg, but it would probibly turn into a bum hangout.... off to the burbs for ice cream.

HOw about we build an urban reserve but in the suburbs, build cheap apartement, all the affordable and manitoba housing and a few bars and liquor marts with a massive industrial park in the east of the city. This way the cost of living would be cheap and all the low end jobs would be there. And all the low lifes can have a new playground to drug and drink there life away. I would also have the cops pick up every bum and vagrant and drop them off there. Sorry to sound so communist but this may be part of the solution of cleaning up downtown from the scum.

Boris2k7 · #**134** Posted **May 13, 2007, 6:07 AM**

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Originally Posted by newflyer

Most cities are following the white concept .. its cheaper not to have to paint the buses. They are delivered white.. so just add some decals and you're on your way.

The new C-trains in Calgary aren't even getting the decals, just plan white.

Correction, they are getting a paint job eventually, however there are slightly more pressing issues right now such as the possible transit strike. Supposedly the CTrains will be a white base with red and silver stripes (red and white are the city colours, so it makes sense).

newflyer · #**135** Posted **May 13, 2007, 3:24 PM**

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Originally Posted by Boris550

Correction, they are getting a paint job eventually, however there are slightly more pressing issues right now such as the possible transit strike. Supposedly the CTrains will be a white base with red and silver stripes (red and white are the city colours, so it makes sense).

News to me ... even the old trains aren't painted. Just long purple decals.

I find it hard to believe that the threat of a strike is preventing the crews from placing decals, but if you say so.

ScrappyPeg · #**136** Posted **May 13, 2007, 6:03 PM**

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Originally Posted by viperred88

HOw about we build an urban reserve but in the suburbs, build cheap apartement, all the affordable and manitoba housing and a few bars and liquor marts with a massive industrial park in the east of the city. This way the cost of living would be cheap and all the low end jobs would be there. And all the low lifes can have a new playground to drug and drink there life away. I would also have the cops pick up every bum and vagrant and drop them off there. Sorry to sound so communist but this may be part of the solution of cleaning up downtown from the scum.

Or better yet, why not just make existing reserves more attractive (housing, jobs, education etc) so that there is less relocation to the city. I would recommend doing this for the reserves that are closer in proximity to Winnipeg, the ones that are too far north are veritable right offs.

The Jabroni · #**137** Posted **May 14, 2007, 3:00 AM**

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Originally Posted by newflyer

Most cities are following the white concept .. its cheaper not to have to paint the buses. They are delivered white.. so just add some decals and you're on your way.

The new C-trains in Calgary aren't even getting the decals, just plan white.

That's ridiculous. Just add decals...? I mean even then they don't even make a difference on certain buses in the long run, because that's like being assimilated with the Borg. It's like losing an identity and going with what everyone is going for. That's too bad because it's they're like ultimate identifiers in which city they're from whenever you see those buses on TV or in pictures. To me, our older orange buses was Winnipeg to me. Now those last of the latest high floor buses are getting repainted too. I guess the focus is on "efficiency" rather than "creature comfort."

furiousmcd · #**138** Posted **May 14, 2007, 3:59 AM**

I emailed the Mayor Glen Murray when he was still in power and he said that it was considered an "unnecessary expense." It's hard to criticize his point. I really liked the painted buses but if money is tight, things like this are always the first to be cut from the budget. This is also the reason that they no longer paint the street lights, apparently.

Wasn't really a big fan of the orange and yellow buses, but I really like the ones from the late 90's with just the orange and white.

http://www.freewebs.com/furiousmcdpi...ipeg%5Fbus.jpg

LilZebra · #**139** Posted **May 14, 2007, 4:12 AM**

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Originally Posted by 204

It's a good idea, but who would enforce it?

The garbage police?

furiousmcd · #**140** Posted **May 14, 2007, 4:12 AM**

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Originally Posted by ScrappyPeg

Or better yet, why not just make existing reserves more attractive (housing, jobs, education etc) so that there is less relocation to the city. I would recommend doing this for the reserves that are closer in proximity to Winnipeg, the ones that are too far north are veritable right offs.

Hahah, since when does Winnipeg not need people to relocate here?