Cancel anytime. EDMONTON - Calgary city council is set to face the fallout Tuesday of losing Alberta government funding for its Green Line light rail transit project, as Mayor Jyoti Gondek says it's clear the province isn't willing to budge on its ...

Transportation Minister Devin Dreeshen maintained he didn't kill the Green Line by pulling the province's share of the funding for it about two weeks ago.

Councillor Sharp believes that by winding down the project, Council is essentially abandoning the people of Calgary – both those who supported the project and those who did not. She thinks that winding down the project is neither financially nor reputationally responsible of Council to approve.

Alberta's transportation minister says the City of Calgary's decision to wind down the Green Line LRT project is "unfortunate” — but he isn’t completely closing the door on the transit initiative.

Despite voting to wind down the oft-delayed LRT project this week, some city councillors still see a viable future for the project, while others are skeptical an effective alternative from the province will materialize.

To pause (instead of wind down) the current project and wait for the province to present their realignment plan (expected near the end of 2024) would cost The City nearly $1M per day. That’s more than $90M over the span of the next three months.

The cost of winding down the transit project will amount to a minimum of $850 million, on top of roughly $1.3 billion already spent.