In real life, the shortest distance between two points is a straight line.

In politics, this is rarely true.

If you thought there couldn’t be any more twists and turns in the story of Calgary’s Green Line LRT project, you were sadly mistaken.

Public engagement on the planned elevated section through the city centre and Beltline found residents and business owners nearest to the line continue to express ardent opposition to the idea, which the previous city council was forced to accept as a condition for continued provincial funding.

The province had said the previous plan to bury the Green Line downtown was too expensive and asserted that elevating it instead would save enough money to send the route farther south in its first stage.

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I’ll take a moment to remind readers we only have the UCP’s word to go on when it comes to apparent savings.

A study commissioned by the province, produced by engineering firm AECON and released........

© Calgary Herald