The City of Winnipeg has been going gang busters repairing roads in the past 6 months. It is interesting that most major cities were doing road work during the Covid pandemic when people and vehicles were off the roads. Federal funding has been a huge help in addressing our infrastructure needs.
If elected I will work hard to address the process of infrastructure in our ward. We can do better in coordinating road and lane closures. Communicating projects, timelines, and updates on work. It is 2022 information and communication help communities and business plan better.
If we expect to be a city that has one million residents, we must do a better job of road work that does not make such a small section of city come to a complete stand still at rush hour. A person commuting through downtown should not take an hour. Image all the pollution created because vehicles are stuck downtown, the fuel being wasting, the impact on making transit buses late and people trying to get to their jobs or families. My efforts would include any work in the ward downtown would take place at night and weekends. Creating contracts with constructions companies that incentives getting the work done as quickly as practical. Spacing out contracts and working on roads so not blocking off every major artery in the ward.
When the city does infrastructure work in the ward, we need to include active transportation. Every action we can do to reduce the number of vehicles on the road is a win-win for everyone. People’s health improves using their muscles, their mental health improves, and our communities are better for it. It would be a priority for me to address this.
You should feel like someone is working on this to give you hope things are improving in the city.
Vote for me in this civic election, October 26, 2022
I live in the ward and will work for the ward!
Michael Thompson
