🏗️Construction on Core Phase to begin this fall
City Council has approved moving forward with the Green Line LRT project under a reduced scope initial phase to build the core foundation of the line from Eau Claire to Lynnwood/Millican within the existing Phase 1 budget. The project will move forward despite ongoing hostilities from the Alberta Government, which still refuses to pay for inflationary cost overruns incurred during the UCP Government's unnecessary two-year delay to the project during a period of high global inflation.
Without added support from the Alberta Government, construction will instead proceed with fewer stations while building the essential infrastructure to add back Centre Street station in the Beltline and other north and southeast stations at a later date.
🙏Thank you to Mayor Gondek and the following City Councillors
Thanks to these Councillors and Mayor Gondek, Calgary is finally putting tracks in the ground after years of public consultation, planning, debate, and political football with the provincial government. The initial Core phase of the Green Line will lay the foundation for future incremental expansions of the line north of Eau Claire and south east toward Seton.
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✅ Mayor - Jyoti Gondek |
✅ Ward 3 - Jasmine Mian |
✅ Ward 5 - Raj Dhaliwal |
✅ Ward 6 - Richard Pootmans |
✅ Ward 7 - Terry Wong |
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✅ Ward 8 - Courtney Walcott |
Ward 9 - Gian-Carlo Carra |
✅ Ward 11 - Kourtney Penner |
✅ Ward 12 - Evan Spencer |
✅ Ward 14 - Peter Demong |
💸Meet the Councillors fighting to divert public funds to build a new football stadium for billionaires
It's hard to imagine politicians so gracefully flipping from championing public funding of lavish sports arenas and stadiums for billionaires to pro-austerity zealots when it comes to funding public transit for the masses but these councillors revealed to Calgarians their true colours today voting against using public funds for public transit.
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❌ Ward 1 - Sonya Sharp |
❌ Ward 2 - Jennifer Wyness |
❌ Ward 4 - Sean Chu |
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❌ Ward 10 - Andrew Chabot |
❌ Ward 13 - Dan McLean |
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Councillor Sonya Sharp, who just months prior spearheaded the one-sided billionaire subsidy arena deal that will see taxpayers front 97% of the $1.2-billion arena, unironically expressed concern that the Green Line may limit funds available for other infrastructure projects.
Anti-Green Line activist Steve Allan and leader of the infamous "anti-Alberta" inquiry was at City Hall on Tuesday casting doubt on publicly funding public transit while asking where Council will find funding for a new football stadium for the billionaire owners of the Calgary Stampeders.
