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Calgary plan calls for city to quadruple transit system instead of new major roads

March 10, 2009 /

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Calgary’s new long-range growth blueprint is calling on City Hall to quadruple the transit network but build no new major roads as the city fits 1.3 million more people within its current boundaries over the next 60 years.

It’s already being decried as an undesireable concrete utopia, but Plan It Calgary’s project manager said it will cost taxpayers about $8 billion less than the ever-sprawling alternative.

By Jason Markusoff, Calgary Herald

Full Story: http://www.calgaryherald.com/news/Calgary+sustain+residents+without+land+Long+term+urban+plan/1370471/story.html

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