The province wants the city to prioritize getting the Green Line LRT connected to Calgary's future event centre but is opposed to tunnelling downtown for the project, according to Mayor Jyoti Gondek.
The province wants the city to prioritize getting the Green Line LRT connected to Calgary's future event centre but is opposed to tunnelling downtown for the project, according to Mayor Jyoti Gondek.“ premier reiterated that their desire is to get from Seton up to the event centre and then figure out how to tie into the Blue and Red Lines,” Gondek said Tuesday.
Gondek says the province expects to have the consultants report on the project by the end of December, at which time they will make it public and share it with the city. In July, Calgary councillors approved an updated plan for the first phase of the Green Line, which was shorter and costlier than originally proposed. Phase 1 of the project was supposed to cost $5.5 billion for an 18-kilometre stretch from Eau Claire to Shepard in the Southeast.
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