Calgary Mayor Jyoti Gondek is asking the provincial government to consider using some of the existing work already completed on the Green Line LRT project in their new alignment plan.
Calgary Mayor Jyoti Gondek posted a letter to social media that she sent to Premier Danielle Smith and Transportation Minister Devin Dreeshen asking the province to preserve at least some elements of the work that's already been done on the Green Line LRT. In a Thursday evening post on X, formerly Twitter, Gondek said if the province were to use some of the city's existing work in its new alignment, it would save time and taxpayer money.
'For example, retaining the existing contract for low-floor vehicles allows design work to continue, prevents a new procurement process and expedites construction,' Gondek said in her letter. 'Further, maintaining the existing contract for the design work on the segment that stretches from Fourth Street S.E. to Shepard would provide the same benefits.' The province wants to forgo plans to tunnel through downtown Calgary in favour of laying tracks above ground to extend the line further into the city's southeast quadrant. Plans for the Green Line were most recently upended when Dreeshen pulled the province's share of funding on Sept. 3. Since then, city council voted to halt the transit expansion project with costs totalling $2 billion.
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