Calgary Greenline: Gondek asks province to salvage parts of project [Video]

Calgary Mayor Jyoti Gondek is urging the Alberta government to preserve pieces of the massive Green Line transit project now being dissolved.

In what she described as a ‘hail mayor’ letter that she penned to the province on Thursday, Gondek suggested that there are ways to ‘preserve existing work’ and allow for a ‘carefully considered rail solution.’

She requested a meeting with the province and suggested retaining existing contracts for low-floor vehicles and retaining existing contracts for the design work segment that stretches form Fourth Street S.E. to Shepard.

That meeting was granted on Friday morning, and despite the Green Line Project ceasing to exist anymore, Gondek said it was a ‘very productive’ conversation with Premier Danielle Smith and Transportation Minister Devin Dreeshen.

“If the province were to start from scratch on a vision for a new alignment, it would require all new procurements and all new contracts, which means …