The city is preparing to take over some land in Strathearn for the Southeast to West LRT line but one couple is begging them to reconsider.
For the last 20 years Wayne Brown and Sharon Morganson have decorated their home at 8622 95th Ave. for both Halloween and Christmas and invited the public to come out and enjoy it.
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Municipal Affairs Minister Doug Griffiths is doubtful of a Calgary alderman’s proposed financing scheme for a southeast CTrain line.
Ald. Shane Keating wants the city to explore the use of a community revitalization levy to pay the costs of its long-awaited southeast transit corridor.
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Council approved Ald. Shane Keating’s proposal for a “workshop” to consider a special finance scheme to build a southeast LRT line, but the debate around his long-shot idea helped harden divisions about how council takes its next steps on expanding the transit system.
Keating’s pitch came about an hour after council gave final OK to RouteAhead, a 30-year transit plan that puts the southeast line and a connected extension up Centre Street or Edmonton Trail on roughly equal footing on the priority list.
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Told repeatedly that there’s no way to afford the southeast LRT for perhaps decades, Ald. Shane Keating will bring another fundraising idea to council Monday.
He’ll ask colleagues to explore whether the same complicated funding scheme that finally got the East Village redeveloped can also deliver his southeast ward’s long-awaited dream project.
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EDMONTON – With dozens of new LRT stations planned to be built in the coming years — bringing with them clanging bells and chiming doors — the city is updating its urban traffic noise policy.
The last policy was written in 2004. Since then, neighbourhoods close to LRT stations such as Southgate have highlighted the need to mitigate how noise from stations affects surrounding communities.
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Concerns about the cost of building an LRT line through St. Albert, as well as the city’s population, growth, density and even the Mafia, reared their heads at an open house devoted to the subject Saturday.
More than 100 people convened at St. Albert Catholic High School to listen to what city councillors, Edmonton Coun. Don Iveson and a few City of Edmonton employees had to say about the proposal.
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The city will spend up to $65 million on a southeast LRT bridge and borrow another borrow another $50 million for the work on the rest of the LRT line, council voted Wednesday.
City councillors went back and forth on both a bridge design and the viability of borrowing money from a third party to fund utility relocations and demolitions for the planned southeast to west LRT route.
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Construction has started on another C-Train station as Calgary Transit continues preparations for a four-car train service.
This week, construction started on the platform at Rundle Station which is one of 14 LRT stations that will undergo construction during the next two years.
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The number of people taking the bus or LRT continues to rise in a trend that started 10 years ago, says Edmonton Transit.
While ridership rose by just over three per cent last year, it has jumped almost 150 per cent since 2003.
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EDMONTON – Following a year of consultation, the city announced the names Thursday for five current and future Edmonton LRT lines.
The Capital Line is the current route from northeast Edmonton to the southwest, Metro will go northwest to St. Albert from Health Sciences and Energy will go from Lewis Farms to Sherwood Park.
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