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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EDMONTON – Twelve municipalities in the capital region have agreed to jointly fund a study on the possibility of creating an integrated transit network.
“That’s a pretty good consensus and show of good faith,” said Don Iveson, chair of the Capital Region Board’s transit committee.
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Inner-city denizens’ dream of a Calgary streetcar system comeback could take a very, very small step forward next week.
It will come in the form of a proposed $100,000 study that’s very broad and very vague.
The senior transit planner helping plot this look into a potential “urban transit loop” said the following questions are not yet defined: what areas the loop would cover, what kind of transit mode — streetcar or otherwise — would be used, what purpose or service gap it would serve, and whether it should be a loop at all.
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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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St. Albert’s long-awaited future park and ride station will be a go, Mayor Nolan Crouse announced during his State of the City address.
Speaking before several hundred businessmen, community representatives and provincial and municipal politicians at The Enjoy Centre Wednesday, Crouse said he had received a letter from the province assuring him the Campbell Road Transit Station and Park and Ride would receive grant funding.
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St. Albert’s transit system of the future could see peace officers at transit stations and on buses, free Wi-Fi Internet access for riders and giving buses priority right of way on certain roads.
Council on Monday endorsed St. Albert Transit’s long-term plan, designed to spell out the possible changes to the department between 2013 and 2027.
While a draft had gone to council late last year, the final report included suggestions and changes from members of the public.
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EDMONTON – With its graceful wooden arches and attached pedestrian mall on a closed portion of 105th Avenue, the largely completed MacEwan LRT station should be a hit with passengers and local residents.
But as Edmonton’s $755 million, 3.3-kilometre north transit line enters its final year of construction, there is still plenty to do underground.
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Bus service between Lacombe and Blackfalds is stalled.
The communities can’t launch a planned service to Red Deer until the province calls for new public transit application grants.
“We’ve been taking the time to get everything in line, but this is all very much contingent on the province,” said Guy Lapointe, City of Lacombe’s community economic development manager.
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For city council and its quest to find a suitable location for a new transit terminal, the question has switched from ‘where?’ to ‘where else?’
The city’s public works committee dealt with a plethora of complaints and letters Tuesday regarding the proposed location of the new transit terminal in the area to the south of the Montrose Cultural Centre.
The field to the south of the Montrose Cultural Centre was determined to be the best by city administration through public consultation with transit riders, but not all agree.
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Calgary’s mayor plans to make transportation one of his big goals in the coming year.
In 2013, Naheed Nenshi plans on working on problem areas and congestion and says one roadway that needs some work is Crowchild Trail.
Calgary city council rejected a plan created for Crowchild Trail earlier this month, voting unanimously to send transportation planners back to the drawing board.
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