More news and notes.
A page detailing all the scheduled LRT service changes for the next couple months, presumably will be continually updated.
http://www.calgarytransit.com/html/lrt_mtce_2011.html
Basically almost every weekend from now until the middle of September will have some sort of disruption to complete maintenance work of one kind or another.
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You may have also been hearing/reading various media stories about possible changes to the fare structure and/or service cuts to deal with a discepency between expected revenues and costs of the system. Several possibilities could arise including increases to seniors' passes, low-income passes, regular monthly passes, transit tickets, cash fares, or just an across-the-board increase. Zone systems are also up for discussion. The shortfall could also be covered by service cuts or subsidy increases (i.e. more tax revenue).
I'll leave the relevant report here. The matter has been through committee and will soon go through council, where any solutions will be decided.
Calgary Transit Funding and Fare Strategy
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Finally here is some of the capital infrastructure project information currently working its way through to council. The 3-year budget cycle is coming up, so you'll be hearing a lot more about this in the coming weeks/months. Some of it has already received some press (possible delay of Tuscany Station).
Transportation Shovel-Ready Unfunded Projects List - At the top of the transit portion of the list are the SW BRT ($43.6M) and a Natural Gas Bus Project ($62.4M)
Transportation 2012-2014 Capital Infrastructure Plan - Among other projects, WestLRT, Saddletown extension, Tuscany extension, SE Transitway predesign, new LRVs (50) appear on this list.