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Cruise night has never left.

Just ask the residents in a three-kilometer radius anywhere along Portage Avenue, Chief Peguis Trail, Main Street, just to name a few.

I have heard from them.

They are super upset that they can't sleep on Sunday nights because there's actual loud racing.

Police officers have been busy issuing traffic tickets to people speeding and driving carelessly earlier this month.

Between last Wednesday and Sunday, Winnipeg police say some of the worst instances of speeding happened on Chief Peguis Trail, as well as on Abinoji Mikoona and Lagimodiere Boulevard.

The highest speeds clocked were two motorcycle drivers going at around 165 and 170 kilometers per hour, respectively, on Lash at around noon on Sunday.

Both men were issued an MPI serious offense notice and were charged under the Highway Traffic Act for careless driving and speeding.

Yeah, so those, a lot of those are right in my neighborhood, sort of bracketed.

They happen all around me.

And I know I mentioned something years ago about hearing, um, racing, either on the perimeter of Abinoji Mikoona, or pardon me, uh, either on, uh, Chief Peguis Trail or on the, on the perimeter, sitting in my backyard.

One of our listeners, [laughs] "How can you tell it's, uh, they're racing?" You can tell when it's racing [laughs] engines, and they're screaming.

Uh, transportation.

You are against the widening of Route 90, Kenaston, and the extension of the Chief Peguis Trail.

You call them incredibly wasteful city-building projects.

Um, you would redirect the 1.6 b- well, you wouldn't spend the 1.6 billion, and your argument is that it doesn't benefit the majority of city residents, encourages sprawl, and doesn't do anything about the overall traffic volu- volumes except funneling the problem elsewhere.

How can we, like, get people from point A to point B in the most efficient way possible? And that's how I look at it, because-

O- okay.

Now, you're, you're opposed to the extension of the Chief Peguis Trail.

Um, I personally have been, um, have been favorable to that, uh, because, uh, uh, it, uh, for one thing, it would connect to CentrePort.