One Winnipegger's Verdict on the New Bus Routes: Time to Buy a Car
Winnipeg Transit's new routes have produced the reaction route changes usually do: Global News reports many riders feel mixed, with some wanting the network to go back to how it was. One Winnipegger's fix is a car. A route map is a negotiation over whose trip gets better, and there's no answer to a rider who has simply left the argument.
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One rider buying a car is a small data point, but it's the decisive kind. A network change that pushes someone off transit has failed on its own terms.
Pushback
'Mixed feelings' isn't a verdict either. Wanting the old routes back is the reflex after any redesign; the real question is whether riders the new map serves show up to replace the ones it lost.