Calgary Green Line: Alberta proposes new plan [Video]

The province has released a “reimagined” plan for the Green Line CTrain track that it says is longer and less expensive than what the City of Calgary had planned.

The province contracted AECOM to identify and assess an alternative that avoids tunnelling in downtown Calgary. Details of that new route were released on Friday.

Based on the AECOM report, the province is proposing a new Green Line alignment from Seventh Avenue to Shepard.

“This new Green Line route saves more than a billion dollars in tunnelling costs,” said Devin Dreeshen, minister of transportation and economic corridors, in a statement.

“This alignment adds five more stops, will be 76 per cent longer and will serve 60 per cent more Calgarians – all within the same budget.”

Alberta’s government says this route more closely aligns with the initial provincially and federally approved business case from June 2021.

Side-by-side maps show the City …