A 242M Capital Line Item Increase
Download MP3This week we discuss an updated capital budget, and a new train. Plus, the police commission declines to show up to a council meeting in this, the city of champions.
Here are the relevant links for this episode:
Police commission
- City councillors call relationship with Edmonton police commissioners 'unhealthy' and 'frustrating'
- Sean Amato's tweet thread
Capital budget
- Edmonton council approves increase to $10.4B capital budget to build housing, renew roads and fix facilities
- Edmonton adds $262 million in capital spending on buses, LRT vehicles, infrastructure repairs and housing
Capital Line LRT
- News Release: City awards Design-Build contract for Capital Line South LRT Extension project
- Edmonton's Capital Line LRT to extend south as council approves bylaw to borrow $585M
- Cost for Edmonton Capital Line LRT south extension balloons by $242 million, council approves in secret
Transit ridership
- News Release: Transit ridership up 130 per cent
- Open Data Catalogue
More scooters
Blatchford
City of Champions
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Rapid fire
- News Release: City adds new water bottle-filling stations
- YEG Departures Roadway construction to end this fall
- 58 per cent of Canadians not following Oilers-Panthers Stanley Cup final: survey
Business membership
This episode is brought to you by the Edmonton Public Library which is hosting another instalment in its Forward Thinking Speaker Series. Don't miss Dr. Marie Wilson in conversation with Chief Wilton Littlechild on June 19. The Truth and Reconciliation Commissioners will discuss what we can do to further reconciliation across Canada. Tickets are now available for this EPL fundraiser.
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