ARTICLES, & OPINIONS:
While Quebec blocks Alberta oil, Montreal company gets Green Line contract | Western Standard | Lindsey Wilson |
DOWNLOAD PDF HERE NOTE: Ian Bourne was Chair of the SNC Lavalin Board – and is now Vice Chair of the Green Line Board
Continuous chaos consumes city council | Calgary Herald | Chris Nelson
Metrolinx explains why Ontario Line costs nearly tripled | Global News
Gondek, Smith UCP meet on Calgary Green Line, Smith won’t budge | Calgary Herald | Rick Bell
Smith UCP says no more dough for ‘Nenshi nightmare’ Green Line | Calgary Herald | Rick Bell DOWNLOAD PDF HERE
Green Line board staying mum on cost overruns, will present recommendations to council July 30 Calgary Herald | Scott Strasser | DOWNLOAD PDF HERE
Danielle Smith’s UCP government tells Gondek no more cash for Green Line LRT| Calgary Herald | Rick Bell
Brookman: Taxpayers feel ignored as council moves to the beat of own drum | Calgary Herald | George Brookman
Opinion: Speak out before Green Line steamrolls over taxpayers | Calgary Herald | Steve Allan, Brian Felesky, Jim Gray
Government officially cancels Auckland Light Rail | 1news.co.nz
Tunnel troubles shut some stations along Ottawa’s beleaguered LRT system again|Globalnews.ca | Canadian Press
City Hall swims in billions, pleads poverty, wants more | Calgary Sun | Rick Bell
Council should fix transit, not expand it | Calgary Herald | Chris Nelson
Governments keep pushing public transit Canadians don’t want | Financial Post | Philip Cross
Canadians deserve more than smug silence when public projects go off the rails | Globe and Mail (PDF)
Western Standard: Cory Morgan interviews Jim Gray (Interview starts at 14:40)
Leaders must face the music for city fiascos | National Post
MAKICHUK: The Green Line plan needs a serious second look | Western Standard
The Ottawa LRT was supposed to change the city, but it has, for the worse | Mackenzie Gray
The Economist: From high-speed rail to the Olympics, why do big projects go wrong (PDF)
Many Canadian offices are empty. It could be the economy’s canary in the coal mine
High Costs Shrink Transit Plans in Austin, Philadelphia, Atlanta – Bloomberg
Calgary Green Line costs will only continue to skyrocket: CCA
Ottawa’s LRT didn’t go wrong. It started wrong. Globe and Mail
Councillors seek clarity on SNC-Lavalin’s involvement with Green Line
New CEO of Calgary’s Green Line confident downtown tunnel can go ahead |CBC News
No TransLink Tax | Vancouver citizens helped defeat a proposed transit tax
The mayor and council insist the Green Line be built using tunnels beneath downtown — through shifting, water-logged gravels and sands — and assert it’s a financially responsible option. It is not.
We have a low level of confidence in our ability to deliver all of Stage 1 within available funding.
Green Line project lost in event centre hype. No one seems sure about anything when it comes to this massive project.
$4.65 Billion
44 Km + 29 Stops
$4.9 Billion + $500 MILLION
20 Km + 15 Stops
$1 Billion spent
Upgrading Utilities
$5.5 - $10 BILLION
20 Km + 13 Stops
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