St. Albert’s plans to halt trains from blowing their whistles and to find the best route through the city for a future LRT line might be on a collision course.
Coun. Cam MacKay on Monday night put forward a notice of motion to use the approximately $500,000 the city planned to spend on an LRT functional alignment study instead to fund the remainder of the city’s whistle cessation program.
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Now that the West LRT is on the move, the city plans to sell off dozens of land parcels acquired for the train line’s construction.
A report coming the Land and Asset Strategy Committee Thursday says there are 92 city-owned parcels varying in saleability status.
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The projected cost of a proposed new park and ride in St. Albert has jumped approximately $7 million and could grow even more, leaving city council to wonder if the project might need to be scaled back.
On Monday night council received an update on the cost for the Campbell Park Transit Station and Park and Ride. While it had been submitted to the province for grant funding in 2010 with an estimate of $30 million, the cost in 2013 dollars works out to $37 million.
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EDMONTON – The owner of a Jasper Avenue convenience store lost his fight Monday for a tax cut because of construction disruption.
Thomas Yu, who runs a shop in the Central LRT station pedway beneath the Cambridge Lofts, said foot traffic is down 70 per cent since LRT roof repairs and road work from 100th Street to 102nd Street started last April.
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EDMONTON – A poll released Monday shows almost two-thirds of Edmonton residents don’t want a private company to run the southeast LRT.
The federal government promised the city $250 million last month to help pay for the project as a public-private partnership, or P3, that a consortium would design, build, finance, operate and maintain
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Perhaps St. Albert and Edmonton will have commuter rail service between them … again. One hundred years ago, that dream was a reality courtesy of the Edmonton Interurban Railway.
The Edmonton Interurban Railway was born with the same prolonged deliberation as the potential future LRT line, and with as many hopes riding along too, including the birth of a village in between the two municipalities.
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EDMONTON – A Strathearn couple is angry they’ll still lose a corner of their lot for southeast LRT construction after council agreed Wednesday to start the expropriation process.
Planners reduced the amount of land they need at the corner of 95th Avenue and 87th Street following a meeting last week with Wayne Brown and wife Sharon Morganson, but Brown said officials now want other property.
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Thousands more are taking the west LRT into the city core, making the city’s most expensive project well worth the price tag, officials say.
According to data from Calgary Transit’s passenger counts and surveys, more first-time riders are using the west LRT. In just three hours of a typical afternoon rush hour, an additional 2,200 downtown people are taking the bus and CTrain.
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EDMONTON – The federal government announced Thursday it will contribute $250 million to development of Edmonton’s southeast LRT line.
It’s the largest investment by the P3 Canada Fund, designed to support public-private partnerships, which the city has determined is the best way to complete the $1.8-billion line, federal Public Works Minister Rona Ambrose said.
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