Dozens rally to save Green Line as council considers project's future
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About 100 people took to the steps of Calgary city hall on Monday to try to keep the Green Line LRT project on track.
About 100 people took to the steps of Calgary city hall on Monday to try to keep the Green Line LRT project on track.
City councillors will debate Tuesday whether to "wind down" the $6.2-billion transit project and hand over control and risk to the provincial government.
A plan approved in July to build a costlier, shorter line resulted in Alberta's transportation minister writing a letter to Calgary's mayor to announce the province's $1.5 billion in funding would be pulled pending a review of alternative alignments for the Green Line.
"There is so much uncertainty around what it is the province wishes to do. The only certainty we have is that the Green Line program, as we knew it, is gone," Mayor Jyoti Gondek said Monday.
"It has been terminated by the province."
The province has previously said its review will be finished by the end of the year.
Premier Danielle Smith has said publicly her government prefers an alignment that reaches the far south without tunnelling through the downtown core.
