What's Happening in Calgary, AB…

Over the next few years, Calgary residents are likely to notice significant improvements in the area’s public transit services.

The city’s council has pledged to spend $520 million by 2018 on the construction of a new transport route called the ‘Green Line’.

The line will be a bus-only service, and will bring access to areas of the city where public transit is currently inadequate, including the Harvest Hills and South Hospital neighborhoods. It will provide a much faster service and the hope is that it will reduce the number of cars on the road.

The route will be built in sections, with the areas where there is currently a lot of traffic congestion and bottlenecks being first on the priority list. The service will cross the Elbow River, an irrigation canal, as well as Bow River, Deerfoot Trail and Glenmore Trail. The city will negotiate for land with Canadian National and Canadian Pacific railways.

The plan also involves bus-only lanes being built on Center Street, which currently serves 30,000 transit passengers a day. This will help to ease congestion for both buses and private vehicle owners.

The total cost for the project is estimated to be around $760 million, and it is hoped that both the provincial and federal governments will help to pay a portion of the costs not covered by the city.

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