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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