Vancouver vs Winnipeg — Airport Transit Trip
Channel: Car Dependency Index
Date: 2022-11-19

When I started Car Dependency Index, I used a model trip from the airport to downtown as a way to compare transit to driving. In this video I show you what it's like to take transit from the airport in Vancouver and Winnipeg—dramatically different, that's for sure! 

The airport to downtown trip is one of the most obvious trips that any region should have accounted for in designing its public transit system. I think of the airport trip as a litmus test for transit. What's it like to take transit to and from the airport in your town or city?

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Vancouver is located on the stolen & unceded land of the xʷməθkʷəy̓əm (Musqueam), Sḵwx̱wú7mesh (Squamish), and səlilwətaɬ (Tsleil-Waututh), and other Native peoples.

Winnipeg is located on Treaty 1 territory, the traditional land of the Anishinaabe, Aninishiniwak, Dakota, Dene, and Ininiwak peoples, and the homeland of the Métis nation. Indigenous peoples did not view the Treaties as a cession of the land, and Canada has repeatedly failed to uphold its end of the Treaties. Our water here in Winnipeg is taken—through a disputed agreement—from Shoal Lake, home of Shoal Lake 40 First Nation and Iskatewizaagegan 39 First Nation, which were under a boil water advisory for 23 years from 1997 to 2020.

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References:

0:57 I reference HSBC and other large Canadian banks' financing of climate change through fossil fuel investment. Canadian banks continue to be among the largest fossil fuel investors in the world: https://www.ran.org/wp-content/uploads/2021/03/Banking-on-Climate-Chaos-2021.pdf

5:18 & 11:42 Learn more about mixed-use zoning from Not Just Bikes: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bnKIVX968PQ

6:54 Learn more about Canada's missing and murdered Indigenous people—who are disproportionately women, girls, gender-diverse, and queer people—here: https://mmiwg-ffada.ca/
You can also see an ad on the Winnipeg bus relating to MMIWG2S+ at 8:50

7:32 Not Just Bikes talks about modal filters in his video about why stop signs suck (especially for cyclists): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=42oQN7fy_eM

8:22 and 9:05 Not Just Bikes talks about raised crosswalks and continuous sidewalks in multiple videos: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9OfBpQgLXUc

8:25 I pressured Winnipeg Transit and the city to start selling bus fare at the airport, and I'm far from the first to do so: https://twitter.com/cardependency/status/1567186458187800578

9:42 Check out the "Finance" section of this site to learn more about how overinvesting in car infrastructure bankrupts cities: https://www.anatomyofapothole.ca/

10:44 Link to my Instagram highlight about how excessively large cars are harmful, wasteful, and unnecessary: https://www.instagram.com/stories/highlights/17848696310819150/

Chapters
0:00 The Vancouver airport
2:16 The Vancouver Skytrain airport station
3:21 Riding the train!
5:04 Walking~
5:21 People who are unhoused in Vancouver
6:17 Missing and murdered Indigenous people
6:35 Walking home
7:05 The Winnipeg airport
8:18 Riding the bus!
8:40 Passing through St. James
9:03 Bad roads are a symptom of car dependence
9:48 This is what car-centric urban design looks like
10:57 Passing through West Broadway & mixed-use zoning
11:30 Walking home
12:10 Recap