Calgary commuters are driving up sales at car2go, the ever-popular car-sharing company that grew faster here than in any other North American market over the past year. The company, which started in Germany, nearly tripled its Calgary fleet of blue and silver Smart cars in the past 12 months, putting 400 cars on the road, and registered 35,000 customers. In the company’s first year in Vancouver, it claimed 21,000 paid users.
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EDMONTON – The number of Edmontonians taking public transit to work has climbed over five years, but the vast majority of employees still drive themselves alone, according to numbers from the 2011 National Household Survey released Wednesday.
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EDMONTON – The biggest and most important change to transform Edmonton’s downtown has crawled along for years, but it’s about get a major boost.
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EDMONTON – A $515-million shortfall for the southeast to west LRT means tough choices for council.
Council can either postpone the project, expect inferior construction bids, or backstop the project with city funds until other levels of government come through, potentially increasing city debt and raising taxes by 2.5 per cent, says an update released by the transportation department Thursday.
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VANCOUVER — Denis Lebel, the federal minister of transport, infrastructure and communities says by next spring provinces, municipalities and territories will begin rebuilding Canada’s aging infrastructure, with the help of $53 billion in federal funding over the next 10 years.
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City council has approved a major transportation work plan that paints a balanced vision of cycling, walking, transit and driving in Red Deer.
The Mobility Playbook was approved by a vote of 7-2 on Monday as a planning tool for future road designs, neighbourhoods, trail systems and transportation.
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Red Deer city council will take a final look at what’s in store for the future of transportation in the city.
Following two months of public consultation, the draft Mobility Playbook comes to council for approval on Monday.
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EDMONTON – For almost 60 years, the humble little bridge that connects west Edmonton with the downtown sat unappreciated and unacknowledged, even as it allowed thousands of commuters to travel busy Stony Plain Road from west to east and back again.
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CALGARY – The Northwest Territories is promoting the idea of a “made-in-the-North” oil pipeline as a means to get Canadian crude to international markets.
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City council is looking for compromise on Alberta Transportation’s plans on access changes to and from the Trans-Canada Highway between First and 16th streets.
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