So with the Federal budget allowing cities to apply for infrastructure money (same thing with the Building Canada fund) do you think the City of Calgary will push for funding of the SELRT and Stephen Avenue Subway?
Apparently there is to be a 1/3 municipal, 1/3 provincial, 1/3 federal split for projects. In some cases the federal government will consider covering 50% of projects if the province comes forward with 50% (in cases the municipality cannot contribute their share).
For first phase SELRT ($1.2 billion), could the city pull $400 million from the municipal sustainability fund, work out $400 million from the Green TRIP provincial fund to negotiate the final $400 million with the Federal government?
I hope Bronconnier pushes really hard on this item (and the SAS if possible). It would be great to have the Stephen Avenue Subway, SELRT and WLRT up and running before say 2014-2015.
Even better would be to go balls to the wall and try and get the whole $2 billion line to the South Health Campus built with this funding (that might require more provincial funding)
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