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Originally Posted by xubiqtss
Here's another easy win that would involve no heavy infrastructure changes:
May to September Osborne Street is closed to traffic from River to Pembina. Patios, vendors, pedestrians, etc.
Ever been to Montreal in the summer? They close some of the busiest streets in the city for expressly this reason and it fucking rules.
For some god forsaken reason Winnipeg can no longer even do this for one day.
The Biz needs to get it together and do this yesterday.
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As a close by resident, I'd love for the village to be pedestrianized over the summer and find all the whining about traffic delays extremely infuriating.
BUT I have to admit there's one big problem with doing this on Osborne: The buses!
I've been to Montreal in the summer and from what I can see, they just temporarily reroute the buses (usually only one line per street) along the next parallel street. Not a big deal, Montreal is quite the dense grid around these areas and you just walk one block further to your stop. Additionally, the metro is completely unaffected by this and people are more willing to walk a little to the next metro station in the summer, instead of taking a bus.
With Osborne's geography and the mess that is confusion corner I don't see any good solution here. There are three lines, the 16 (Osborne), 18 (Corydon) and 60 (Pembina) going through. How would you reroute them and still keep the village itself accessible by transit?
What's the other option? Close the street to regular traffic and only let buses through at low speed? Maybe, but that is a lot of buses, especially around rush hour.
As much as I would love it, this is just really hard to do on Osborne without going full tram straight away.