Street-level or elevated tracks? Province reviewing options for Calgary’s Green Line [Video]

As work on the Green Line gets ready to roll again, the biggest question about the LRT project continues to be about its route through Calgary’s downtown.

A provincial review of alternative alignments through the core is underway after the Alberta government deemed the plan to tunnel too costly.

“When you go underground, it’s $1 billion a kilometre. If you stay at surface, it’s $100 million a kilometre,” Premier Danielle Smith said Thursday.

“So that’s part of the reason why the cost is escalated. And so, we’re going to work together to see if we can find a solution.”

Though many details of the new version of the Green Line project are unknown, the province has made it clear a tunnel is no longer on the table.

Options to go through downtown “will be either at-grade or elevated and will connect into the Red and Blue lines, the new Event …