So there's another empty lot #HeritageHole on 11th Ave. and Albert St. meaning 2 entrances to #YQRdt have empty lots from demolitions, with no plans to rebuild new businesses or affordable housing.
#YQRcc
In 1940 Regina Downtown #YQRdt had exclusively electric public transportation that would now be the envy of most modern cities. Now you can't even find public transportation outside of inefficient taxies or Ubers on 11th Ave. #YQRcc
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Oh Rly?
I was under the understanding that #YQRdt paid the most per land use in property taxes, as it is in most cities, while suburbs like Ward 4 are a suck on services, and can't even have water pressure without expensive water pumping add-ons everyone else pays for.
#YQRcc
I used #YQRtransit this week, and riding the bus in #yqrdt sucks now. The stops are 3+ blocks from Cornwall Centre.
"The City has Transit shelters installed around Victoria Park to keep transit riders out of the wind, rain & snow." - lie on Regina.ca #yqrcc, there's no shelter on south side of Vic.
Former Mayor Fougehair finally got his way, and the buses are leaving 11th Ave. in #YQRdt.
Here's my summary from a decade ago, with a sad update from Wayne Mantyka:
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Warehouse Building for sale
Downtown Regina from The Yards
Union Station from the tracks
Pile of earth in The Yards
#yqrdt from The Yards
#HeritageHole at Albert and Victoria Ave. is a signal to the world, yes, the world, this tells everyone downtown #yqrdt Regina is a vacant lot with a fence up around it. More swindle developments to follow.
The City already fooled me once, justifying a costly #StadiumII mega-project with a #YQRdt bike lane they just used for a bait & switch swindle. I'm not going to get fooled again by the hollow promise of a bike lane to nobody, to justify a new bypass highway in a region that should remain farmland.
Plus, there are ZERO businesses within 200m of the majority of these proposed street upgrades. Imagine how much good could be done in #YQRdt with $78,000,000!
$10M for Regina Transit
$10M for #YQRbike infrastructure
$10M for sidewalks and trees and planters and signs and maps
$10M for art...
#YQRcc
S: When we think of the future, had a round table with youth "who know that every Canadian has a right to a healthy environment." "People with asthma can't breathe when they're #yqrdt downtown in winter because of all the exhaust from buses and from cars, we're in a very car-centric city"
Nuit Blanche Regina
8pm #yqrdt August 30, 2025
Regina removed the only bike lane in its #YQRdt downtown, but to be fair it was only 1 block anyway, and they wanted the space for buses more it turned out. #BikeRegina
Creating Active Champions timed hurdles ring toss Canceled due to poor air quality July 22 noon Vic Park Sask Sports Hall of Fame Regina Downtown
Bachata cancelled today due to poor air quality (yesterday)
Lunch and learn postponed by Regina downtown on July 23
To be clear, that's professional sports fans in particular. There are amateur sports being cancelled too, but that's not making the news cycle.
#YQRdt #YQR
I wonder if anything branded "Crosstown" is doomed by delay. Regina's "Crosstown Bike Lane, goes about 2km through some of the west to near the edge of #YQRdt, skips a beat, has another 300m through College Ave. then dead-ends, never to be continued through the other 10km to the east.
Pedestrians waiting to cross through traffic at a construction fence. A giant utility hole is in the sidewalk, a foot deep, in front of what was Canada's biggest Tim Hortons.
#yqrtraffic in #yqrdt is ridiculous for pedestrians at 11th and Broad St. There is no room given on the west side to cross anywhere other than at #SaskDr or 12th Ave.
#yqrcc utterly fails to protect life and limb of people walking downtown.
Our bar-scene is many blocks north, inaccessible by foot because there is a scary tunnel on Broad St., and an equally grungy under-bridge on Albert St., and no long-promised bridge in the middle of #YQRdt to Dewdney Ave. businesses.
#YQRcc
#YQRdt
Imagine if Costco was downtown instead. People would go there. There's already a Costco in the outskirts of the city. #YQR
You know how to tell Regina is a backwards place?
The City of Regina has promised bike lanes downtown since 2013, but after 5 Councils, and 12 years, 0m exist today after 50m were once added.
#yqrbike #yqrdt #yqrcc
Talked with some students today who put together research into what could make Regina Downtown better. #yqrdt
#YQR
There is not even a McDonald's downtown, because they know #YQRdt is isht.
Empty parking lot, downtown behind it
Regina, as seen from the empty surface parking lot.
#yqrdt #YQR
I didn't know how to pronounce that word they invented. Most people will avoid it on the fear that they might have to pronounce it out loud.
#yqrdt