City council drafts 30-year wish list for Calgary Transit
Future plans total up to $8B
CBC News
Posted: Sep 17, 2012 5:09 PM MT
Last Updated: Sep 17, 2012 6:58 PM MT
City council is working on a 30-year plan to set priorities for future transit development.
The wish list, worth between $7 billion to $8 billion dollars, includes new LRT lines, extensions of current lines as well as bus-only roads and new rapid bus transit routes.
Mayor Naheed Nenshi said Monday that it’s important to talk about future plans, even if the city doesn’t have the money right now.
Draft map of future Calgary Transit development. (City of Calgary)“We don’t have funding for any of this …We don’t have a dollar. But I think it's important for us to continually make the case to citizens and to other orders of government that capital investments in transit are important investments. I’ve often said they’re among the most important investments a city can make.”
According to Calgary Transit, the plan focuses on connecting major employment centres with each other and not on the past priority of getting people from the suburbs to downtown.
RouteAhead
The RouteAhead process started earlier this year when Calgarians were asked how to improve transit service, where service needs to go in the future and how Calgary Transit should be governed.
The plan is expected to be finished by early 2013 and each project will be ranked by priority.
Mayor Nenshi said that will allow the city to be prepared when money does become available.
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