googspecial
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When are we to expect an update on this? Anyone know?
The key takeaways boil down to this.
- Like any city, Calgary has some ugly 'back of house' scenery.
- Besides helping Calgarians get around, a new train line will let people to see a different side of their town.
- Construction of this portion of the Green Line will affect some homeless people and wildlife
This is good news. The project is so off the rails that funding it now would be foolish. Best to wait for a new City council. The federal money is likely gone regardless.
It is important to think of this project in context - The funding was always over at least 10 years anyways. Money can be spent without grants flowing. Matching can flow without cash in hand. In P3 projects, costs to the public sector can be profiled to be in line with available funds.Well, Kenney's cancelled the Green Line; 8 of the 10 ridings it passed through elected UCP MLAs.
The city was supposed to receive $555 million for the planned LRT over the next four years. Nenshi, seemingly incredulous, told reporters it will now receive $75 million.
$75 million is useless in building a piece of infrastructure, it's like someone offering you twenty bucks to help buy a house. And this is for the entire term of the UCP government, after which they presumably hope to be reelected, and then not fund the Green Line again.
I assume the feds will take their matching money back, too. (Remind me, Kenney's been critical of Ottawa sending too much money to Alberta, right?)
wow,so wrong.It seems pretty clear in hindsight that the UCP has been sending its cronies like Jim Gray to start questioning the Green Line in order to provide political cover for the province to withdraw (or "delay") funding after they promised to maintain support for the project during the election campaign.
I fear that Trudeau's re-election means that most Calgarians will now blindly support the UCP no matter how badly they screw us over in the next four years.
This might have merit if the City hadn't also admitted the problems with downtown at the same time; the latest in a string of budget overruns, delays and missed promises.It seems pretty clear in hindsight that the UCP has been sending its cronies like Jim Gray to start questioning the Green Line in order to provide political cover for the province to withdraw (or "delay") funding after they promised to maintain support for the project during the election campaign.
This all might be rather convenient for Council, as they can now blame Kenny all the ills of the greenline. The reality is, there was no agreed to downtown alignment. The new option was to be unveiled in January. However, based on how well this Council gets along, I doubt there would have been any strong consensus, especially given the lack of engagement that has taken place on this new alignment so far (halfway through the 4 months to do it, and I am not sure if there has been any).It seems pretty clear in hindsight that the UCP has been sending its cronies like Jim Gray to start questioning the Green Line in order to provide political cover for the province to withdraw (or "delay") funding after they promised to maintain support for the project during the election campaign.
I fear that Trudeau's re-election means that most Calgarians will now blindly support the UCP no matter how badly they screw us over in the next four years.
I think this is a misnomer - not 100%, but I believe it is just going towards already planned construction. It isn’t new money it is just that the year added to the budget is more than the year removed from the budget.It's totally maddening. The UCP also INCREASED funding for the ring road and cut funds for the LRT system generally (on top of the cut funds for the Green Line).