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Old Posted Jun 13, 2009, 2:02 AM
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Imagine Your Winnipeg - Public Charrette - June 23-26

"Image Your Winnipeg" - City of Winnipeg Building Charrette

From speakupwinnipeg.com:

"...Response to the "Speak Up Winnipeg" campaign has been spectacular. As you can see by posts on this website, Winnipeggers are full of great ideas about how they want their city to grow. We've also got all kinds of reports, surveys, and analyses to fold into the discussion. So what do we do now?

We sort through it all and try on ideas for size. And most important, we do that together.
From June 23 to June 26, at the Winnipeg Art Gallery, we'll put on a public workshop that will include not only chances to talk through some of the big ideas but also opportunities to sketch out how strategies might look if they were applied in specific areas of Winnipeg. A team of designers, planners and other city building types from PlaceMakers, LLC, will be on hand to facilitate discussions and put pencil to paper with test-run scenarios. That way, we'll have something tangible to talk about and to help us choose the right approaches to our long-term urban design strategies."
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First and foremost , whatever we decide on , can we stick to it ?
Actually , if there's one thing that this city seriously needs to do , it's follow through on whatever plan it comes up with. That would be a nice change anyway.
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First and foremost , whatever we decide on , can we stick to it ?
Actually , if there's one thing that this city seriously needs to do , it's follow through on whatever plan it comes up with. That would be a nice change anyway.
Went to the Transportation & Transit meeting this morning; interesting to see so many developers there (Ladco, etc). When the obvious focus was to find ways to overcome barriers to transit ridership & transit-oriented development, it was not surprising that suburban developers chirped up to say there's nothing wrong with our type of urban form; that Winnipeggers love their cars and that the automobile isn't going away anytime soon.

To the uneducated, that propaganda may sound true, but in reality there just aren't enough viable alternatives in place yet to change public opinion. Build it and they will come - as cliché as it sounds - may be the only way to change the unsustainable car-oriented lifestyles so many have grown accustomed to.
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Went to the Transportation & Transit meeting this morning; interesting to see so many developers there (Ladco, etc). When the obvious focus was to find ways to overcome barriers to transit ridership & transit-oriented development, it was not surprising that suburban developers chirped up to say there's nothing wrong with our type of urban form; that Winnipeggers love their cars and that the automobile isn't going away anytime soon.

To the uneducated, that propaganda may sound true, but in reality there just aren't enough viable alternatives in place yet to change public opinion. Build it and they will come - as cliché as it sounds - may be the only way to change the unsustainable car-oriented lifestyles so many have grown accustomed to.
What are you talking about?

Cars are good. I have 7 cars and built a 2nd home with a huge garage to store my collection. No one lives in the brand new home. Just the cars. I will buy more cars because the collector car market is in a slump and there are great deals now!

Winnipeg is a car city and will always be one.

Public transportation sucks. I would never take a bus here.

The TOD is just a ploy when developers have minimal on-site parking. All BS. Car sharing is a freaking joke and will never work.

I am building a 12 unit multi-family development right now with 14 parking spaces. Zoning would not allow any less. I just complied.
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