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Yesterday Council received an update and debated what to do with the Southeast LRT – or the Valley Line as we are now calling it. Frustratingly, we have been forced to delay on account of inadequate support from the other orders of government. There’s no shortage of commitment from this Council, which has pledged $800… Read More
Yesterday Council accepted the business case for implementing Smart Fare, allocated $7 million toward it, and instructed the Mayor to approach our partners in the region to look at sharing the cost of the municipal portion (another $3 million) and approaching the province to fund the balance of $20 million out of the Green Trip… Read More
I’m not writing this to question the wisdom of my colleagues who sit on Executive Committee, but given the significant negative feedback I’m receiving from the public on their decision, I wanted to make my position clear. To begin with, Fort Edmonton is one of our City’s greatest attractions and as a family we visit… Read More
Do we need a national vision for transit? Of course. The good news is it’s ready to go, courtesy of the Canadian Urban Transit Association (CUTA) – a national transit association that advocates federally and provincially for improved transit. (The City maintains a membership through ETS.) Yesterday at Council’s Transportation and Infrastructure Committee Michael Roschlau… Read More
Closing the loop on a campaign promise (and two previous posts from October of 2010 and February of 2012) I can report a mix of good and bad news after today’s Transportation and Infrastructure Committee discussion of the merits of adding a station between Southgate and Century Park. The good news: the report responding to my… Read More