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Article: Unclog the commute
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- Winnipeg Free Press
- Article date:
- June 15, 2008
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Calvin Polet
I commute by car regularly to my job downtown from my home in the suburbs. I often ride my bicycle to work in the summer, and I use the bus to get to work maybe 10 times a year, but most of the time I drive. I intend to continue that drive, and the creation of a bus rapid transit, or BRT, system will do little to get me to ride the bus to work.
Yet I am a strong supporter of a BRT system for Winnipeg. So, what's in it for me?
Apart from cleaner air, fewer greenhouse gas emissions, development of a compact urban form that consistently develops alongside rapid transit systems, the statement of progress developing such a system makes about our city and the potential boon for our ...