CALGARY — Alberta's government says it's pulling $1.53 billion in funding from a massive Calgary Green Line light rail transit project already deep in sunk costs.
CALGARY — Alberta's government says it's pulling $1.53 billion in funding from a massive Calgary Green Line light rail transit project already deep in sunk costs.
After telling CBC radio earlier this month that city council can rest assured the provincial funding was secure, Alberta Transportation Minister Devin Dreeshen penned a letter to Gondek on Tuesday saying the government is"unable to support or provide funding" for the city's most recent plan. Nenshi, in response, wrote in a statement Wednesday that the UCP government does not care about the needs of Calgarians, and called Tuesday's decision a massive waste.
The province now promises to contract a third party to come up with other costed proposals that would tweak how the Green Line is routed downtown, and extend it farther south. Meanwhile, vehicles the city has already bought won't work under the new rail alignment Dreeshen now wants to see, Green Line Board Chair Don Fairbairn said at a city hall meeting that stretched late into Wednesday afternoon.When asked how the city plans and the province might come to a middle ground, Fairbairn was pessimistic.The city has agreements made with contractors, landowners, and utilities that have already signed on the dotted line related to the project, Fairbairn said.
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