In a special council meeting held Monday morning, City Councillors decided to move forward with plans to secure land in southeast Edmonton for the LRT.
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Inglewood residents’ anger boils over latest Canadian Pacific Railway train mishap in Calgary
Rush-hour traffic in Inglewood was met by angry residents with picket signs Friday.
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Aging LRT cars drag down transit performance: report
The worsening breakdown rate of Calgary’s three-decade-old LRT cars is not only adding to transit riders’ routine agony, but it could also take a big bite out of Calgarians’ ambitions to expand the CTrain system further.
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Southeast LRT likely delayed one or two years by funding shortfall
EDMONTON – The southeast LRT will likely be completed one or two years later than planned after council decided Wednesday not to borrow an extra $515 million to push ahead with the project.
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Magline Transit Would Create 45 Minute Commute From Calgary To Edmonton
Albertans looking for faster travel in the province may be closer to having their prayers answered.
Magline Transit, a magnetic levitation technology, could take commuters from Edmonton to Calgary in under 45 minutes while only using solar power.
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Elon Musk Plans to Revolutionise Long Distance Transport
Having recorded a huge success with Tesla, Elon Musk is now turning his entrepreneurial eye on revolutionising long distance transportation.
When researching California’s new high speed rail project, and realising that it will be the slowest, and yet most expensive, high speed rail system in the world, he decided that there must be an alternative that offers faster travel for less cost.
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Three open houses planned for North-Central LRT study
The City of Calgary is working to improve transportation choices that will connect Calgarians and their communities in the north central area. As part of this commitment, and to meet Council’s direction from 2012, The City is beginning a study to determine where the future north-central leg of the LRT (NC LRT) should go and the best transit service for the community.
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Enclosed pedway planned for Coliseum Station
EDMONTON – The city is looking at a major overhaul of the Coliseum LRT station that would include an enclosed pedway over 118th Avenue to the Expo Centre.
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Council picks LRT over stopping train whistles
St. Albert will go ahead with its study on running an LRT line through the city and put on the shelf any further work on preventing trains from blowing their whistles in the city limits.
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City touting high-speed rail stop at downtown station
Alberta’s high-speed rail may be decades away, but the province should be acquiring the right-of-way along the Hwy 2 sooner than later, say Central Alberta leaders.
Red Deer Mayor Morris Flewwelling will continue to press the provincial government for high-speed rail to be built along the Hwy 2 corridor — even though it’s nowhere in future capital plans.
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