Councillors take more time with transportation plan
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This article was published 05/11/2011 (5099 days ago), so information in it may no longer be current.
CITY councillors are taking more time to review Winnipeg’s Transportation Master Plan, a blueprint for new road, transitway and bike-route construction over the next 20 years.
The plan is intended to give developers and residents a degree of certainty about the location of future transportation routes. It calls for the completion of four rapid-transit lines, an inner ring road and a network of streets that will support the CentrePort trade hub by 2031.
The blueprint was developed over the past two years at a cost of $1.25 million. The cost of the projects it describes would exceed $5 billion, in 2011 dollars, but the plan does not deal with budget considerations.
On Friday, when the plan came before council’s public works committee, Coun. Jenny Gerbasi (Fort Rouge) lamented the fact councillors and the public had little time to review the details. Although a summary was presented to councillors on Oct. 28, the complete plan was published two days before the committee was expected to approve it.
The public works committee also had to adjourn early so councillors could attend a briefing about the South End Water Pollution Control Centre.
The transportation plan will return to council’s public works committee on Nov. 15. It will then proceed to executive policy committee on Dec. 7 and finally council as a whole on Dec. 14.
— staff