Project Calgary

Community-sourced ideas for a modern Calgary that is economically, culturally, environmentally and socially vibrant.

[Project Calgary @project_calgary]

🎪 Danielle Smith's puppet municipal political party has launched in Calgary 👎

➡️https://t.co/PPn0kEbblq

[Project Calgary @project_calgary]

@LRTontheGreen @DevinDVote Devin Dreeshen killed the Green Line from going downtown. Now says he's worried about traffic.
https://t.co/u90z1r0gIi

[Jasmine Mian @jasmine_mian]

She’s not putting the separatist question to referendum but has just introduced a bill that’s making it orders of magnitude easier for separatist enthusiasts to do just that.

This is what we call duplicity- the act of being deceitful by pretending to have one set of intentions while secretly acting on another

[Project Calgary @project_calgary]

Members of Danielle Smith's🤑Billionaires First municipal political party that supported a massive arena subsidy announcement weeks before the last provincial election now oppose much needed funding for community infrastructure.
https://t.co/4KhltNgRFh

[Adam MacVicar @AdamMacVicar]

Calgary’s mayor accused of ‘electioneering’ as council approves maintenance funding boost

https://t.co/tfMcu0VA0A

[Project Calgary @project_calgary]

Remember when Billionaires First leader Sonya Sharp helped Danielle Smith rush through $100’s of millions on a new arena just weeks before the last provincial election? #yyccc https://t.co/4KhltNgRFh

[Project Calgary @project_calgary]

⭐️ TAKE ACTION: Email Event Centre Committee Chair Sonya Sharp and all of Calgary city council to ask for transparency and accuracy on the arena deal funding.
https://t.co/FhwEdVex3U

[Project Calgary @project_calgary]

💰Cllr. Sharp and the City are sharing misleading info on the true funding sources for the new arena.
https://t.co/4KhltNgRFh

[Project Calgary @project_calgary]

🛩️ Billionaire Flames owners will pocket 100% of the estimated >$100M per year in arena revenues.

[Courtney Walcott @CWalcottYYC]

The elevated Green Line alignment insisted upon by the Province now exceeds the cost of the tunneled downtown alignment from Sheppard to Eau Claire.
https://t.co/YJWRb2RNA8

[Project Calgary @project_calgary]

@SonyaSharpYYC Like a UCP puppet, Mayoral hopeful Sonya Sharp won't speak of the years of delays imposed by the provincial UCP government on the Green Line project during periods of high global cost inflation.

https://t.co/8Y8JymeyvC

[LiveWireCalgary @LiveWireCalgary]

Minister Devin Dreeshen didn't commit to a long walk through the downtown with Mayor Gondek. #yyc #calgary #yyccc

https://t.co/Ko711trmPy

[Project Calgary @project_calgary]

When you stack up their voting record, Councillors Sonya Sharp and Dan McLean are putting Billionaires First.

The UCP's puppet municipal political party is here to steamroll over local democracy and put billionaires first.

https://t.co/KSS59EPtkm

[Project Calgary @project_calgary]

Let's not forget how in July, Councillors Sharp and McLean voted AGAINST the underground #GreenLineYYC alignment downtown.

❌They ignored Calgarians.

💰They voted how a handful of elitists told them to vote.

🤡They voted how the UCP told them to vote.

https://t.co/8P4QVvNJje

[Sonya Sharp @SonyaSharpYYC]

Councillor McLean and I fought to keep the Green Line alive last fall, and again in January. Cancelling it would've cost Calgarians at least $850M in contract penalties, wasted $1.4B already spent, lost billions in funding from other orders of government, and wiped out 1,000 local jobs.

Is it perfect? No. But we’d rather lay track than waste taxpayer dollars on nothing. 

Pending approval from the provincial and federal governments, the next steps will be breaking ground in the south this year, plus starting to engage with business owners and residents downtown to refine the plan. After more than a decade of debate, and some questionable decisions from past Councils (like buying cars before laying track), it’s time to shift from talk to action.

#yyccc #GreenLineYYC

[Project Calgary @project_calgary]

Councillor Sharp showed more interest in building a new football stadium billionaires than building efficient underground public transit downtown for Calgarians.

https://t.co/EAYWSAatU4

[Alex Middleton @alexYYC]

"Where's the money going to come from to build a new football stadium?"

My family had season tickets for the Stampeders for years but if you're arguing that $$$ for a new football stadium is more important than a train that will help folks get to work and school... you've lost.

[Project Calgary @project_calgary]

🗑️TAKE ACTION: Tell Danielle Smith to ditch her Trump sympathizer transportation minister waging economic war on the downtown Calgary Green Line, businesss and taxpayers.

#GreenLineYYC

https://t.co/CDymWjB9AQ

[Calgarians for Transit @YYCforTransit]

"The province has forced the city to support a worse project that is shorter and more expensive than the one that was already underway. They’ve cut corners and placed the financial burden solely on the people of Calgary."

https://t.co/Bj5WjWmTWt

[Calgarians for Transit @YYCforTransit]

🤡Councillor Sonya Sharp Has Led a City Council Capitulation on the Green Line.

#GreenLineYYC #yyccc #BillionairesFirstyyc

https://t.co/OihaoGpLb9

[Calgarians for Transit @YYCforTransit]

For those trying to understand the incompetence of the UCP Government here's the gist of what happened today:

The Province told City Council to vote for the more expensive $7.5-billion "Dreeshen Drawing" or lose $3-billion in provincial and federal funding.

[Calgarians for Transit @YYCforTransit]

🔫Calgary's real estate and development industry has put the finishing bullet in the disastrous Dreeshen-Smith elevated Green Line alignment:

📄"We feel it would be reckless to support the proposed elevated solution in the Beltline and Downtown"

❌Nobody supports it.