The green light follows years of ups, downs, and recalculations
Corey Larkin and his dog Ben use an e-scooter in downtown Calgary, Sept. 13, 2019. The city has approved a plan to develop a light-rail Green Line for public transit.Calgary’s much-debated Green Line light-rail project will go ahead after some previous opponents say they got the financial safeguards they were fighting for all along.
“I think that’s why things changed. When their own residents say ‘You should approve this,’ that makes a difference.” The first, which is now scheduled to start construction in 2021, is the 20-kilometre, 14-station southern leg, from Shepard station to the Ramsay/Inglewood station, just east of downtown.
It originally went from a theoretical future plan to what seemed like an imminent project when Justin Trudeau, campaigning to form government, pledged transit funding to several cities in 2015, after the provincial NDP government had pledged $1.53 billion earlier that year. The federal government formally announced it would match that amount in 2018.
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