Voter’s Guide: Rana Bokhari at a glance

Rana Bokhari

Citizen’s Agenda Pledges

Homelessness

• Make addiction and mental health services more accessible
• Apply five per cent accommodations tax to short-term rentals like AirBnB
• Use existing city bylaws to seize derelict homes and turn the land over at no cost to non-profit housing groups to construct affordable housing.

Crime Prevention

• Implement the Crime Prevention Budget, a social services budget line that takes 10 per cent from the current Winnipeg Police Budget (roughly $32 million)
• Give 10 per cent of said budget to preexisting social groups or nonprofits
• Open new safe injection sites in Winnipeg, beginning with a mobile pop-up site
• Make bike registration free; require mandatory registration of new bikes; partner with 529 Garage to aid recovery of stolen bikes

Transit

• Speed up improvements to Winnipeg Transit Plus
• Support Transit Master Plan but speed up its implementation
• Reduce the cost of a transit pass to $20 over four years
• Replace out of service buses with electric ones
• Reduce bus wait times
• Improve accessibility at bus stops, all must be accessible via sidewalk or path
• Redirect some above ground parking lot funding to transit

Police Budget

• Cut Winnipeg Police Service funding (see ‘crime prevention’)
• Revisit the 2013 independent WPS Operational Review to hold officers accountable for budget use

Roads

• Implement new by-laws to restrict how many parking spots a business needs ($100 annual levy, and $350 for those who exceed the number of spots)
• Lower the minimum number of parking spaces needed by half
• Remove the sidewalk barriers at Portage Avenue at Main Street

Active Transportation

• Make it mandatory for all community spaces and parks to have accessible paths for active transportation
• Increase funding for safe active transportation and secure bike lanes

Compiled by: Emma Honeybun

jmajorrrc@gmail.com

Updated Oct. 2, Oct. 5, Oct. 13

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