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Originally Posted by thebasketballgeek
Imo for Selkirk to be absorbed into our CMA we have to improve the transportation options so Winnipeg commuters can justify living in Selkirk as well. It would be great if the Main Street future rapid transit route had a Selkirk option just like how some Blue line busses go to St. Norbert rather then U of M.
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Selkirk has to have 50% of its residents commuting to Winnipeg for employment. I can't see that happening anytime soon. Strange that they are not included in the St Andrews Municipality (along with Dunnottar and Winnipeg Beach).
As for any type of rapid transit line? Not going to happen.
No offence, but living in Edmonton, it makes zero sense to build the LRT from Century Park to the Airport. Edmonton is planning on expanding their LRT route to 41 Street SW, which has all been built up in the last decade. However, the Airport is 10 km from that point and considering that Leduc (15 km outside Edmonton) is the nearest large population center (35,000), it's not economically viable, as the demand for service does not even come close to the cost of 15km of track they would need to connect Edmonton to the Airport and Leduc.
Selkirk is roughly 23 km from Riverside, which is the closest subdivision in Winnipeg to the town. There is no airport, industrial area, or population base to support this. Selkirk has 10,000 people and has not really grown much in 50 years. Leduc at one point had 5,000 people in 1972. Now it will approach 40,000 before the end of the decade. If expanding an LRT makes no economic sense in the Edmonton area, it would never be built from Winnipeg to Selkirk.
Unless Winnipeg triples in size, and the metro area reaches Selkirk (which will never happen), there is no need for an LRT, or a BRT for that matter. We should be concentrating on population density at any rate.