Winnipeg City Transit/Rapid Transit - Page 217

Andy6 · #**4321** Posted **Apr 28, 2012, 8:31 PM**

There's not exactly a lack of room around Polo Park if someone wanted to build an underground station there. Finding a spot for the station would be well down the list of logistical problems that would need to be solved.

cllew · #**4322** Posted **Apr 28, 2012, 9:10 PM**

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Originally Posted by WJG

Just for clarification, was the SportChek basement built with the intention of housing a RT station someday in the future, or is there simply enough space down there to do something like that if someone wanted to?

Sportchek is in the space that use to be Manitoba Blue Cross's head office before they moved across the street into the Manitoba Health building on Empress.

At one time in the 60's developers added office space to their malls to increase the number of people in the mall and add extra revenue by renting space under the mall.

Polo Park even had a basement movie theater located by the St. James and Ness doors. Not sure what the current status is as it does not show on the rental map for Polo Park.

trebor204 · #**4323** Posted **Apr 28, 2012, 9:44 PM**

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Originally Posted by cllew

Polo Park even had a basement movie theater located by the St. James and Ness doors. Not sure what the current status is as it does not show on the rental map for Polo Park.

Looking at the map it seams that Academy of Broadcasting Corp (ABC) has taken the space from the old movie theater. The stairs you see to south of ABC, are the same stair you see behind Stitch It Clothing (on the main level)

cllew · #**4324** Posted **Apr 28, 2012, 11:21 PM**

I believe your are right.

Looking again at the map the Sq Ft size would be about what the former screens were and lining it up with the main floor map puts them where I remember the lobby being.

armorand93 · #**4325** Posted **Apr 29, 2012, 1:40 AM**

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Originally Posted by WJG

Just for clarification, was the SportChek basement built with the intention of housing a RT station someday in the future, or is there simply enough space down there to do something like that if someone wanted to?

Seeing LRT stations in Calgary/Edmonton, we'll need alot more space than Sportchek (east-west). Airport Tram though...

pollswpg · #**4326** Posted **Apr 29, 2012, 8:13 AM**

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Originally Posted by cllew

I believe your are right.

Looking again at the map the Sq Ft size would be about what the former screens were and lining it up with the main floor map puts them where I remember the lobby being.

Nope...ABC is right there, but most of the old cinema is just general storage.

pollswpg · #**4327** Posted **Apr 29, 2012, 8:15 AM**

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Originally Posted by armorand93

Seeing LRT stations in Calgary/Edmonton, we'll need alot more space than Sportchek (east-west). Airport Tram though...

I don't know, Sportchek's basement section is pretty huge. And if you factor in all the storage/employee only space that is probably back there....

flatlander · #**4328** Posted **Apr 29, 2012, 6:58 PM**

Article in yesterday's Free Press regarding the demise of Orion:

http://www.winnipegfreepress.com/bus...149345175.html

vid · #**4329** Posted **Apr 29, 2012, 10:55 PM**

Orion buses are even worse than Newflyers.

armorand93 · #**4330** Posted **Apr 29, 2012, 11:29 PM**

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Originally Posted by vid

Orion buses are even worse than Newflyers.

Just ask Toronto and Ottawa about their Orion artics LOL

Lenin · #**4331** Posted **Apr 30, 2012, 5:09 AM**

Thanks, armorand93, for answering my articulated bus question.

armorand93 · #**4332** Posted **Apr 30, 2012, 6:11 AM**

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Originally Posted by Lenin

Thanks, armorand93, for answering my articulated bus question.

No worries, comrade.

The Jabroni · #**4333** Posted **May 7, 2012, 2:51 AM**

Orion... sounds old school.

armorand93 · #**4334** Posted **May 7, 2012, 3:55 AM**

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Originally Posted by The Jabroni

Orion... sounds old school.

Orion the Instrumental? jk, this isn't a Metallica thread lol

The Orions are sure dwindling. BBL 39 is apparently gone now, although Beaver Bus Lines has a ton of former GO Transit Orion V's now running Selkirk routes.

Note: had to run across the street (and used my iPhone camera), so I completely missed the front of it...

armorand93 · #**4335** Posted **May 8, 2012, 11:24 AM**

Theres currently two high-floor D40s (two out of the four or so rush-hour buse's) on Route 26 whizzing by my house! Honestly, I've never seen this many since I was a kid, or since at least 2002/2003 lol. Theres usually one on it occasionally, but with RT using nothing but low-floors, hearing D40s or Classics roar by is becoming way too common. Who knows, maybe all the 21s when I head to work today, will be D40s! That'd be one wickedass sight

trebor204 · #**4336** Posted **May 8, 2012, 5:30 PM**

Not really Transit News but, (the project will have to fit in with 2nd leg of RT)

Open house this Wednesday regarding the Pembina Underpass @ Jubilee

Time: 4:00 p.m. to 8:00 p.m.(drop-in format)
Location: Association of Professional Engineers and Geoscientists of the Province of Manitoba (APEGM), 870 Pembina Highway, Winnipeg, Manitoba

http://winnipeg.ca/publicworks/Major...ss/default.asp

armorand93 · #**4337** Posted **May 8, 2012, 7:46 PM**

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Originally Posted by trebor204

Not really Transit News but, (the project will have to fit in with 2nd leg of RT)

Open house this Wednesday regarding the Pembina Underpass @ Jubilee

Time: 4:00 p.m. to 8:00 p.m.(drop-in format)
Location: Association of Professional Engineers and Geoscientists of the Province of Manitoba (APEGM), 870 Pembina Highway, Winnipeg, Manitoba

http://winnipeg.ca/publicworks/Major...ss/default.asp

Elevated bridge, hopefully.

1ajs · #**4338** Posted **May 9, 2012, 12:23 AM**

was there more rail lines going over pemida there at one time?

cheswick · #**4339** Posted **May 9, 2012, 3:40 PM**

Curious now that the rapid transit has been up and running for a while how has it affected anyone who works downtown travel times to work?

A friend of mine takes it home and says it takes him pretty much the exact same amount of time as it took him previously. Before he would catch the bus at graham and vaughn I think and it would be more of a direct route down osborne to pembina. Now he says he has to travel all the way down graham stopping at every stop then down main at every stop so the extra time it takes to get out of the downtown pretty much cancels out the savings of the rapid portion. I assume someone working closer to Portage and Main would see more benefit?

h0twired · #**4340** Posted **May 9, 2012, 3:59 PM**

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Originally Posted by cheswick

Curious now that the rapid transit has been up and running for a while how has it affected anyone who works downtown travel times to work?

A friend of mine takes it home and says it takes him pretty much the exact same amount of time as it took him previously. Before he would catch the bus at graham and vaughn I think and it would be more of a direct route down osborne to pembina. Now he says he has to travel all the way down graham stopping at every stop then down main at every stop so the extra time it takes to get out of the downtown pretty much cancels out the savings of the rapid portion. I assume someone working closer to Portage and Main would see more benefit?

Does he commute home during rush hour?

The whole reason for the BRT route was to bypass the mess that occurs every afternoon on Osborne between downtown and confusion corner.

Most people I know who use the BRT routes are reporting 10-15 minute shorter commutes each way.