CentrePlan 2050

How about you put a grocery store downtown, that is affordable and offers variety? All we really have is Giant Tiger. But no, please put up more trees...

Please consider adding bike storage downtown as part of your plan! Winnipeggers can't leverage the investments in bike lanes and a focus on active transportation if there is no where to park their bike in a safe, secure, and convenient fashion. Could the city work with the parkades or surface lots down town to convert space for bikes? Could the plan include a bike corral? The Winnipeg Square bike enclosure has a 2+ year waiting list. The Millennial Library is also full and operates a waiting list.

Love it! Winnipeg needs more bike lanes, green space and areas with no cars. A dedicated fan zone for hockey is awesome! This plan will encourage people to go outside, visit downtown and for those who don't bike regularly they will be encouraged to grab their bike and go for a ride. We pay our taxes and this would be a great use for Winnipeg and its citizens.

I refuse to go downtown. Was harassed 2 out of 3 visits. Police at each corner won't help.
It just isn't safe in many areas in our city.
Concentrate on homeless, mental health. Set up system that Finland has.
Then I'll venture back downtown.

Graham is the perfect corridor for the bus routes. It is so easy to get to downtown from either side of the city. I think you should leave it the way it is or have a plan in place for a bus corridor that is not Portage Ave.

What happened to all the other "plans" that the city has produced, ignored and eventually dumped?
I've been waiting 8 years for the follow up to the secondary plan for South Point Douglas.
First public session was a joke. A bad joke.
This is another expensive joke only to prop up Chipman's empire and other special interest groups.
Forget it.

Where are the current bus routes gonna go? Also, This plan places exaggerated focus on pedestrians, bike-lanes, and outdoor activities without taking the fact into consideration that people feel terrified walking through downtown, let alone engaging in out-door activities. This plan must also included a safety plan to make the area safer for these kind of out-door activities.

我认为，一个城市中心的建设不仅仅是物质景观上，而是精神上的文明，这让我想起破碎的候车亭，乱扔的垃圾，随处可见的超市购物车，不要把城市的脏，乱，差，归结为尊重人权。这是两码事，城市的管理者不作为，官僚主义，滥用公权力是一个重要原因。对市民来说，安全是第一位的。而温尼伯市中心恰恰缺乏安全感。停车当局的乱罚款只针对守法的市民。应该把无家可归者救助中心迁移到远离市政府，远离市中心，远离居民区的地方集中管理。这对减少犯罪率，维护城市景观尤为重要。

Governments at all 3 levels - Municipal, Provincial and Federal should embrace and encourage more remote work. They can sell off government building for affordable housing. Government would save taxpayers millions on building maintenance, rent, expenses, etc. The downtown economy shouldn’t require government employees to save it. It needs more housing to be saved. Studies have shown workers are more productive working from home. Remote work is great for the environment with less cars on the streets. Great for morale, recruitment and retention. Better work/life balance. Helps alleviate child care spaces. Stop forcing workers back to the office for political reasons. And start becoming employers that other private sector employers can model themselves after. This is the future of work, and the future of downtown should embrace more housing and less offices.

No, just……no! Get your heads out of the clouds! I used to live and work downtown, for many years, in the 80s and 90s. I used to be able to walk the skywalk to work in colder days, or meander through the space behind the library, grab a hotdog on Broadway from a street vendor, pick up my groceries in Eaton’s or The Bay basement. I worked. I lived. All my entertainment was downtown focused. It was awesome! Now I’m fearful of any occasion that takes me there. It’s unsafe. It’s filthy. It’s just awful! I avoid it at all costs! Until the serious situation with those who have taken over downtown is dealt with, no amount of romanticizing what it could be will bring it back to life. Spend our tax dollars on more pressing issues.

The other commentary are correct, Graham is a major business hub with the library and such. The idea of changing all the bus routes at once is a disaster! A project of that scale should not have been done without consulting the public. As an autistic individual who is a frequent transit user to the University of Manitoba I am appalled to be losing the route that I'm accustomed to. That project should have been brought out in phases. This whole Graham Avenue thing should not be done till the bus and homeless people problems are fixed.

Let me get this straight...on top if screwing up the transit and not surveying the transit users you now want to pour money into our downtown ti make it quote unquote greener ans livelier...it may be advisable to do something about the enormous homeless problem first and ensure that downtown is safe enough to implement the vision you have.

Great initial design, however more should be done to promote an even greater pedestrian zone with limited access to vehicles. For those concerned with public safety, by building a space people want to live or be recreational, the area will feel safer when in greater numbers. Always good idea to incorporate indoor bike parking in addition to visible and secure outdoor bike parking.

Trees trees and more trees. Coordinate with all stake holders especially Manitoba Chiefs The Bay development, True North etc.. so successful.

I think we have to look at Graham Ave as more than a summer destination. With our winter climate and the shoulder seasons there are a lot of days of how to design the street for year round use. Just tossing around concepts what if a portion of the street became an interior street where the street is covered with a glass enclosure. Doing this will guarantee an active and vibrant community space/destination street year round. There are many similar concepts used in cities across Canada and the US. The balance of tenants is critical to the success of this concept but I think it opens up possibilities for a dynamic and interesting space for Winnipeg.

That block is VERY unsafe. The Tim Hortons alone has multiple incidents every day.
The minister of public safety works out of the Cargill building and this is where a person was stabbed at the entrance of that building.
Also sky walks are a no jurisdiction zone where building security whis is useless anyway will not remove persons public drinking or violent altercations. Police if called do very little also.
I think the powers that be should take a walk around and see how "safe" they feel.

Don't waste your money. The number one reason people avoid downtown is that they feel unsafe. Unless you can do something about the unsavoury characters that roam the downtown streets, you're trying to make a silk purse out of a sow's ear.

This green space on Graham will be a disaster. Very few people even go downtown. Just look at what Linda of people hang around that area. A total waste of money.

Graham is a great bus hub. Switching bus routing to Portage Ave is a waste of time, money, & usable roadway. Why spend money we don't have on somebody's downtown fantasy? JOE T

If we really want Downtown to transform, we need better bus service to and from Downtown. If more people start taking the bus, people won't rely on cars to get Downtown. Then we can truly make Downtown for people, not for cars.