Manitoba's 3rd largest city runs without buses, leaving some families stuck in place

https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/manito... Steinbach was "well-positioned" to start offering public transportation — according to a study done 17 years ago, when it was a city of 10,000 people. "There is the potential client base, necessary growth and most importantly the need for more sophisticated public transportation," according to a 2006 report from the Institute of Urban Studies at the University of Winnipeg, commissioned by a group in Steinbach hoping for public transit. Since then, Steinbach's welcomed another 8,000 people, sprawled outward, and become a more dense community with more apartment and condominium complexes, but the city hasn't yet added public transit. Gay Boese is part of a new group in Steinbach trying to change that, and she says many residents would use it. "We've got people who can't maintain a job because they can't get to their work," said Boese, a member of the South East Equity Coalition. "We had a story of a young woman from Blumenort, who walked [nine kilometres] from Blumenort to Steinbach every day, all year, to work a minimum-wage job because she was so determined she wasn't going to go on [Employment and Income Assistance]," said Boese.