Calgary’s inner city has everything at arm’s reach
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Calgary’s inner city has everything at arm’s reach
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EDMONTON – Motorists on Argyll Road could face major traffic jams created by the southeast LRT line, the project manager warned Tuesday.
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As the city marks one year since trains started running on the southwest leg of the LRT, officials say the new service is catching on.
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CALGARY – A shorter commute, access to amenities and collaborative work environments are key drivers of employee satisfaction and retention, says a new report on the future of work in Canada.
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EDMONTON – The Alberta government says it will introduce new legislation this fall that would give the province the power to designate lanes for specific use in an effort to reduce commute times.
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CALGARY — Calgary-based WORKshift, dedicated to promoting flexible work programs, was officially launched Wednesday nationally with Ottawa and Halifax the next two Canadian cities to adopt and implement the initiative.
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All four bridge decks along the 96th Avenue N.E. extension will be open this fall now that a dispute between the city and its contractor is resolved, leaving the project about $5 million under budget.
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EDMONTON – Growing numbers of people are going downtown to study, work or unwind, but fewer of them are taking a car, a city transportation study shows.
About 49,600 commuters stayed in Edmonton’s core during a typical weekday last September, up 24 per cent from a similar study done in 2009, according to the central business district cordon count released last month.
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The city will make sure vehicles can easily enter and leave its new park and ride facility, says St. Albert’s director of transit.
Bob McDonald said that when it started preparing its application for provincial grant funding from the GreenTRIP program, it conducted a traffic analysis that showed its plans for the Campbell Road facility will do the job.
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It will take a while longer before Okotoks residents can hop aboard public commuter transit buses to and from Calgary.
The Calgary Regional Partnership (CRP) is currently investigating whether it’s better for commuter buses to be owned and operated by a regional transit committee or by individual municipalities. As a result, Okotoks council voted on Monday to postpone the second phase of a study looking into the feasibility of transit in Okotoks until sometime next year when the CRP’s work is complete.
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