Voter’s Guide: Shaun Loney at a glance

Shaun Loney

Citizen’s Agenda Pledges

Homelessness

  • Create a $100 million land trust to provide affordable housing for people living in bus shelters and encampments along waterways.

Crime Prevention

  • Provide 1,000 jobs to Winnipegers who have trouble with employment including former gang members (Claims it will reduce policing costs).
  • Replace the bike registration system with a new one to help get bikes back to people after they’ve been stolen.
  • Reduce police dispatches by 10 per cent

Transit

  • Create an electric bus shuttle system to request a vehicle to take you to the nearest bus stop
  • Decline mayor’s monthly transportation allowance and spend it on transit tickets for non-profits. Amounts to around 8,000 trips
  • Employ 25 transit peace officers; develop a new transit safety app

Police Budget

  • Not specifically mentioned in platform, but suggests police workload reforms would affect cost of policing

Roads

  • Create an approach that focuses on taking care of existing roads before creating more.
  • Collaborate with federal and provincial governments to negotiate a better transportation infrastructure model
  • Install 500 level two electric vehicle chargers at city-owned sites

Active Transportation

  • Place new bike lockers at civic facilities and major transit hubs
  • Spend an extra $20.1 million on active transportation over four years

Compiled by Kalkidan Mulugeta

Updated Oct. 13

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Civic Election Day in Winnipeg is on Wednesday, Oct. 26 Information for voters about registration and where and when to vote can be found here.

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