In 2021, Winnipeg City Council approved the Winnipeg Transit Master Plan. It proposes changes and improvements to our service and infrastructure.
It includes a broad, conceptual vision of the next 25 years and a more detailed path for the first five years. You can read the entire plan online.
Since it was approved, we’ve been taking steps to make it reality.
Next step: Primary Transit Network and its feeder routes
The first big step we’re working on is developing a new city-wide route network, subject to Council approval.
We’re inviting members of the public to learn more about the proposed network. You can visit the Primary Transit Network page to find out how it works, and how to attend a public information event in late February/early March.
Over the next few months, we will finalize the Primary Transit Network design. We’ll also plan its implementation and rollout. Both the design and implementation plan are subject to Council’s approval.
Rapid Transit infrastructure
Rapid Transit infrastructure expansion is proposed as the core of the system laid out in the Winnipeg Transit Master Plan. The proposed Rapid Transit network is comprised of six rapid transit corridors linked together to form three Rapid Transit lines that extend throughout the city.
The priority for Rapid Transit is the downtown infrastructure, including an elevated transitway through downtown that would establish Union Station as the city’s flagship mobility hub.
Family of Services
The WTMP proposes changes to Winnipeg Transit Plus to create a more seamless, integrated, and universally accessible network using a model known as Family of Services that better integrates conventional transit service with On-Request service and Winnipeg Transit Plus.
What we’re working on
Here’s a snapshot of WTMP recommendations we’re working on, short-term and long:
Project | Service or Infrastructure? | Status | Timeline |
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Primary Transit Network (Short-term network) design and implementation | Service | Project is ongoing, proposed network to be shared in early 2024 | Network will launch in June 2025 |
Primary Transit Network Infrastructure | Infrastructure | Project is upcoming | Funding anticipated to begin in 2025 |
Design of Downtown Rapid Transit Corridors | Infrastructure | Project is upcoming | Funding anticipated to begin design in 2025 |
Winnipeg Transit Plus Transition to Family of Services Model | Service | Project is upcoming. Groundwork is being laid with Primary Transit Network infrastructure to improve stop accessibility, the wheelchair retrofit project, etc. | Timeline TBD |
Construction of Downtown Rapid Transit Corridors | Infrastructure | Project will proceed when funding is in place | Timeline TBD – 5+ years in future |
Ongoing Service Development: expanding routes, service hours, improving frequency of routes, and refining the network | Service | Projects will proceed when funding is in place | Timeline TBD – Ongoing, post Primary Transit Network launch |
Ongoing Rapid Transit Expansion design and construction, phased from downtown outwards | Infrastructure | Projects will proceed when funding is in place | Timeline TBD – 10+ years in future |