Tapping on to transit in to and trees
Download MP3You can now tap your credit card, debit card, or digital wallet to ride transit. Additionally, we'll discuss updates to the capital and operating budgets, and progress towards the city's tree-planting goal.
Here are the relevant links for this episode:
Extreme weather
Tap-to-pay
- News Release: Arc tap to pay launches in Edmonton region
- Want to pay for Edmonton transit using your credit card? Now you can
Traffic safety
Budget updates
- Report: Operating Financial Update - Sept. 30, 2025
- Report: Capital Financial Update - Sept. 30, 2025
- March 2025: Edmonton 'still not ready' as 2024 population growth exceeded even breakneck forecast: Knack
- Edmonton - Housing Starts
Council budgets
Tree planting
- News Release: City reaches another milestone towards tree planting goal
- Edmonton nearly halfway to tree goal, with slight extension
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Creators and Guests
Host
Stephanie Swensrude
Stephanie is a curator and reporter at Taproot Edmonton. She attended NAIT's radio and television program and has worked at CBC, CFJC in Kamloops, and 630 CHED.
