ManitobaWinnipeg Mayor Scott Gillingham says he’s asked Winnipeg Transit to cost out the extension of late-night bus service.Move follows widespread complaints about new transit service and scheduleCBC News · Posted: Sep 25, 2025 11:53 AM EDT | Last Updated: 10 hours agoMayor Scott Gillingham wants Winnipeg Transit to cost out late-night service extension, following widespread complaints from commuters that bus service ends too early on some routes to get them home at the end of the day. (Tyson Koschik/CBC)Winnipeg Mayor Scott Gillingham says he’s asked Winnipeg Transit to cost out the extension of late-night bus service.Gillingham said Thursday he wants to know that cost in time to develop the city’s budget for 2026.City council is expected to vote on that budget later this fall.Gillingham said he’d like Transit to extend its evening hours following widespread complaints from late-night commuters that bus service on some routes ends too early to get them home at the end of the day. Winnipeg Transit received mostly negative feedback from the public a month after it launched a major route overhaul in June.At the time, Bjorn Radstrom, Winnipeg Transit’s manager of service development, said the department received one positive response for every 100 complaints. Winnipeg Transit changed its service and schedules at the end of June in order to replace the old hub-and-spoke model — which saw most routes run through downtown — to more of a grid-like pattern.Transit made some tweaks to the new routes earlier this month, and Gillingham said Thursday there is a chance more changes could be implemented before the end of 2025.”If our staff came back and said, ‘Actually, we could make some changes within budget this year,’ then that would be what we would pursue,” the mayor said during a break in the September council meeting.Coun. Sherri Rollins (Fort Rouge-East Fort Garry) said the mayor is not moving quickly enough, and Transit must restore evening service and some stops as soon as possible.She said hospital workers and patients in particular need to hear “that service is going to be restored at night, and action is going to be taken on the stops that are critically needed,” Rollins said.Winnipeg Transit looks to extend bus hours following criticism Winnipeg’s mayor is promising relief for late-night commuters on Winnipeg Transit. It comes after widespread complaints about transit’s new bus schedule.
Mayor asks Winnipeg Transit to cost out extension of late-night bus service
