The United Conservative government is blaming former mayor, NDP Leader Naheed Nenshi, for past mismanagement.
WATCH ABOVE: The City of Calgary is exploring ways to transfer delivery of the Green Line LRT project to the provincial government after funding was pulled for the line earlier this week. Adam MacVicar reports.Premier Danielle Smith’s United Conservative government is blaming former mayor, NDP Leader Naheed Nenshi, for past mismanagement, while Calgary city council is pointing the finger at the province for taking back cash it’s already promised.
In the letter, Dreeshen acknowledges that hundreds of millions of dollars have been spent on Green Line work, but says “throwing good money after bad is simply not an option for our government.”He writes that Nenshi failed to competently oversee the planning, design and implementation of a “cost-effective” plan for transit at the time.
“This is untenable and the people of Calgary deserve better than to be used as a political football,” said Nenshi.The province now promises to contract a third party to come up with other costed proposals that would tweak how the Green Line is routed downtown, and extend it farther south.Dreeshen, speaking to CBC radio on Wednesday, again accused Nenshi of failing to cost out and properly engineer the project from the beginning.
Late Wednesday afternoon, Calgary city council voted to ask administrators to figure out the costs of completely winding down the rail project that some have pined for for more than a decade.
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