Rick Shone

Citizen’s Agenda Pledges

Homelessness

• Construct supervised, safe drug consumption sites in the city
• Work with Council to provide vacant land and funding for the construction of a tiny home village, a proven approach in many North American cities, which must include addictions and mental health support
• Expedite and reduce permitting costs for non-profits who build affordable or transitional housing
• Convene and meet with stakeholders every two months with the purpose of collaborative, evidence-based decision-making from the city
• Advocate for an increase to support from other levels of government for more mental health and addiction supports for those experiencing homelessness

Crime Prevention

• Reduce bike theft (Partnership with 529 Garage program, responsible for decreasing Vancouver’s bike theft rate by 42 per cent)
• Expand the Mobile Crisis Service and Active Response to Citizens in Crisis and increase the number of regular wellness checks
• Improve 911 call dispatching aimed at decreasing staff turnover
• Commit to increasing funding to community patrol groups and other community-oriented organizations
• Expand community policing and bike patrol initiatives in central Winnipeg
• Better police data analysis

Transit

• Add a new bus route going to Bird’s Hill Park
• Ensure busses are equipped with bike racks within four years

Police Budget

• Commit to halting any increase to the existing budget.
• End Winnipeg police Chief Danny Smyth’s contract
• Allocate police budget funds to solutions such as community patrol groups

Roads

• End mandatory parking lot minimums
• Decrease traffic congestion Downtown
• Move past “car culture” and reduce traffic lanes
• “If elected I will open up Portage and Main”

Active Transportation

• Invest about $18.8 million of the city’s budget into active transportation
• Double Winnipeg’s active transport infrastructure in the next four years
• Add more bike lanes to Osborne Village
• Improve the sidewalk network
• Add more secure, year-round public bike racks
• Increase the number of protected bike lanes
• Incorporate active transportation into all reconstruction projects by default going forward
• Prioritize completing the gaps in existing bike networks, improving routes to mandatory services
• Add more signs and key locations for way-finding on bike routes
• Require new communities to consider and implement active transport into construction
• Implement temporary bike lanes in construction zones
• Create traffic-free neighborhood bike routes
• Purchase and operate two electric street cleaners all summer long tasked with cleaning sidewalks and bike lanes citywide

Compiled by: Emma Honeybun

Last updated: Sept. 27, Oct. 13, Oct. 20, Oct. 23

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