Bridgwater Trails – My Comments On New Bus Routes – Please Share Yours

RESIDENTS OF BRIDGWATER TRAILS

TODAY Transit starts a series of ‘public engagements’ regarding the PROPOSED bus route changes to connect to the new Southwest Transitway opening in 2020. These public engagements will take place in a converted BUS – find the ‘Ideas in Motion Bus’ at a variety of locations THIS week and NEXT week – see complete list of locations: Bus Routes Are Changing In Southwest Winnipeg

MONDAY April 8th, the bus will be at Ecole South Pointe School 615 Kirkbridge Dr.
3 p.m. to 5 p.m.

Bridgwater Trails currently does not have regular scheduled transit service. Look at the images below – You can see from the route shown that there are a few streets that will benefit from the ‘shuttle bus’ going through Centre Street to Bridgwater Lakes. Buses will run on a much higher frequency in the neighbourhood and essentially ‘shuttle’ you to the main line – the Blue Line and this will be great – for some.

Bridgwater Trails is a neighbourhood with hundreds of families already residing in new homes. The current proposal for routes put forward by transit staff does NOT include Bridgwater Trails residents. Transit states they are not putting transit into Trails because it is not currently being serviced.

My thoughts on this:

• I believe the transit corridor should be optimized and that transit should service Bridgwater Trails.
• The buses would have to follow the ‘collector roads’ and would extend far south into Trails – where there is still some new development.
• I have formally asked transit to expand the route into Bridgwater Trails.