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Mel Marginet, co-ordinator with the Green Action Centre’s Sustainable transportation team, feels the new call to pilot open streets just for cyclists, and not pedestrians, ignores the need for pedestrians to have safe travel space and is a disappointment after both cyclists and pedestrians used the steets last year.
Winnipeg’s next round of “open streets” may be closed to foot traffic.
Winnipeg’s next round of open streets may be closed to foot traffic.
A proposal calls for council to approve a second pilot project testing seasonal active transportation routes. Last year, the city limited vehicle traffic to one block from 8 a.m. to 8 p.m. daily on 10 different sections of streets to create space for cyclists and pedestrians to engage in physically distanced exercise.
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Winnipeggers don’t want the speed limit lowered on residential streets, a new poll has found, despite a strong lobby effort to get city hall to slow drivers down.
Winnipeggers don’t want the speed limit lowered on residential streets, a new poll has found, despite a strong lobby effort to get city hall to slow drivers down.
A Probe Research poll commissioned by Coun. Jeff Browaty asked 600 Winnipeggers about reducing the default speed limit on residential streets. A majority (56 per cent) said they opposed the change, while 44 per cent supported it.
If given a chance to vote on a plebiscite to reduce the residential speed limit to 30 km/h from 50 km/h, 66 per cent said they would vote no, 26 per cent said they’d vote yes and eight per cent weren’t sure.
City drops plan for bike-share program
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Mark Cohoe, the executive director of Bike Winnipeg, said his organization is conducting a feasibility study on bike-share programs.
The city has hit the brakes on a bike-share pilot project after a request for expressions of interest failed to find anyone willing to operate the program.
The city has hit the brakes on a bike-share pilot project after a request for expressions of interest failed to find anyone willing to operate the program.
Winnipeg had planned to spend $80,000 on a trial project that would allow traditional and electric bikes to be shared as a transportation alternative. Instead, it will back out of that option after officials concluded it would cost too much for the city run the project on its own.