Some locked garbage bins already installed downtown

The city expects crews will finish installing locked garbage bins downtown by Nov. 14.

The work is about one-third complete, the City of Winnipeg said in a news release Thursday. The mayor said this summer that 121 bins would be set up.

Crews are replacing bins on Main Street between Higgins and River avenues and on Portage Avenue between Sherbrook and Main streets.

“One of the most frustrating things to me is seeing trash on the sidewalk and garbage bins with their lids flipped wide open,” Mayor Scott Gillingham said in the release.

“These new lockable bins will help keep downtown cleaner. And, if they work as well as we expect, we’ll look to add more throughout the area.”