Rail line to Calgary’s airport among topics on council agenda [Video]

Calgary city council is back for the first meeting of 2025, with a committee getting a look at the possibility of train service to the airport.

The route is part of a briefing for the infrastructure and planning committee on Wednesday about the Airport Rail Connection Study currently underway.

According to this new preferred route, there would be a train that runs east to west connecting an extended Green Line to the Blue Line, which would stop at the airport.

Councillors say the lofty plan needs co-operation from the federal and provincial governments.

“There are many competing rail priorities. There’s a regional rail, there’s the Blue Line extension, there’s the airport connector and there’s only so much space,” said Coun. Jasmine Mian.

“And so I think, as the airport, they’re not going to want to have all of these different lines coming in if we (need to) collaborate and work …