Calgary no longer able to afford Green Line project following provincial scope change: mayor

The City of Calgary is no longer able to afford the cost of the CTrain Green Line project, following a “significant scope change” by the provincial government. Speaking Wednesday, Mayor Jyoti Gondek said the city received a letter from the province outlining the scope change. “We have been fiscally responsible with this project, we have tried to deliver it within the budget that we had before us with our other two funding partners,” Gondek said. “Unfortunately, the