Neighbourhood Greenway Reduced Speed Pilot

On March 23, 2023, Council approved designating the four pilot routes as permanent Neighbourhood Greenways with reduced speed limits of 30 km/h, in effect 24 hours per day, seven days per week on a permanent basis.

Council also approved designating 10 of the routes from the 2022 Enhanced Summer Bike Route Program as full-time Neighbourhood Greenways. We will now be referring to the continuing enhanced summer routes as seasonal bike routes

The permanent speed reduction on the Neighbourhood Greenways will begin in Spring 2023 and additional traffic calming measures will be installed over the next two years.

Learn more at winnipeg.ca/neighbourhoodgreenways

The public engagement summary and appendices are now available and provide an overview of the feedback collected for the project.

An administrative report with recommendations will be presented to the Standing Policy Committee on Public Works on March 7, 2023. If you would like to appear as a delegation, please contact the City Clerk's Department by noon on March 6, 2023.

The recommendations include designating the four pilot routes as permanent Neighbourhood Greenways with reduced speed limits of 30 km/h, in effect 24 hours per day, seven days per week on a permanent basis and other traffic calming measures.

The recommendations also include designating 10 of the routes from the 2022 Enhanced Summer Bike Route Program as full-time Neighbourhood Greenways.

Thank you to all who participated in Phase 2 of public engagement. Public engagement opportunities were available from May 30, 2022 to June 30, 2022. Feedback is currently being considered and a summary of the engagement process will be posted online.

We want to hear about your experiences with the pilot now that it’s been in place for the better part of a year!

Take the survey

Share your feedback through an online survey until June 30, 2022.

Attend a pop-up event

We will be holding a pop-up event on each route to gather the feedback from users of the routes. If an event needs to be rescheduled due to poor weather, we will update this page by 10 a.m. on the day of the event.

Pop-up Event #1: Warsaw Avenue Neighbourhood Greenway
Date: Monday, June 13
Time: 4 p.m. – 6 p.m.
Location: Warsaw Avenue at Lilac Street

Pop-up Event #2: Machray Avenue and Powers Street Neighbourhood Greenways
Date: Monday, June 20
Time: 4 p.m. – 6 p.m.
Location: Machray Avenue at Powers Street

Pop-up Event #3: Eugenie Street Neighbourhood Greenway
Date: Tuesday, June 21 New date due to rain: June 22
Time: 4 p.m. – 6 p.m.
Location: Eugenie Street at Kenny Street

The pilot is on now, on the following routes:

• Machray Avenue from Fife Street to Main Street
• Powers Street from Dufferin Avenue to Partridge Avenue
• Eugenie Street from St. Mary’s Road to Youville Street
• Warsaw Avenue from Thurso Street to Pembina Highway

It will be in place for a minimum of one year. We will loop back to residents along the route and all modes of road users in summer 2022 to learn about their experiences with and feedback on the pilot program.

This input, along with traffic data to be collected throughout the pilot, will help us make recommendations on the future of reduced speed greenways throughout Winnipeg.

The Neighbourhood Greenway Reduced Speed Pilot will begin next week.

Crews will be installing signage and traffic calming measures, including speed humps, between July 12 and 24. We are installing the program on Machray Avenue and Powers Street the week of July 12, and Eugenie Avenue and Warsaw Avenue the week of July 19.

Residents along the routes should have received notification of the upcoming changes by mail.

Please watch for speed limit and educational signage along the routes. Once you see these, the pilot is officially “open” on that street.

Please visit the Design Details tab to view the changes we will be implementing.

Be sure to stay informed by subscribing to project updates.

A public engagement summary with details on feedback from each street is now available under the documents tab.

A proposed change to the Speed Limit By-law allowing the four streets (Eugenie Street from St. Mary’s Road to Youville Street, Warsaw Avenue from Thurso Street to Pembina Highway, Machray Avenue from Fife Street to Main Street, and Powers Street from Dufferin Avenue to Partridge Avenue) to reduce speed limits from 50 km/h to 30 km/h will be considered by City Council on June 24, 2021. If the change is approved, implementation and installation of traffic calming measures and speed limit signage is anticipated to begin in mid- July.

The pilots would be in place until July 2022. During that time, the pilot streets would be monitored for vehicle and cycling volumes as well as vehicle speeds, and the City would ask for feedback in spring 2022 to follow-up on pre-engagement questions and better understand views on the pilot program.

Based on the public engagement findings and discussions with area councillors a report on the Neighbourhood Greenways Pilot Project will be presented at the June 10 meeting of the Standing Policy Committee on Infrastructure Renewal and Public Works (External link). The report recommends the project proceed on four of the five proposed streets and that the speed limit bylaw be amended to reduce the existing 50 km/h speed limit to 30 km/h on those streets. Roch Street between Poplar Avenue and Leighton Avenue has been removed from the program. To appear as a delegation, please contact the City Clerk’s office. A public engagement summary with details on feedback from each street will be posted later this month.

Thank you to everyone who has taken time to provide feedback. We heard from a wide range of citizens; receiving 567 completed online surveys and 28 phone calls for more information. Using the feedback received through this engagement process the Public Service will work with the area Councillor to review community input, and confirm the pilot locations. Input and technical data collected before and after the pilot will help evaluate locations and considerations for further use and guidelines. We will report back in June/July on what we heard and will announce the implementation plans this summer.

The Neighbourhood Greenway Reduced Speed Pilot is notifying residents and gathering early feedback before installing the pilot treatments and speed limit reduction.

Do you use, live on or live near one of the identified streets? We want to hear feedback so we can better understand local perceptions of the greenways prior to implementing the pilot.

Please visit the Design Details tab to view the planned street designs.

Share your feedback through an online survey. This survey will be collecting feedback until Friday, May 14, 2021.

Be sure to stay informed by subscribing to project updates.