Gondek meets with province over Green Line funding changes [Video]

Calgary Mayor Jyoti Gondek met with representatives from the Alberta government Friday, just days after councillors voted to start the process to ‘wind down’ the $6.2 billion Green Line and transfer the cost and risk to the provincial government.

The meeting comes after a letter from Devin Dreeshen, Alberta’s transportation minister, outlined “serious concerns” the province has with the updated plan for Phase 1 of the Green Line.

Dreeshen’s letter said the province would no longer provide its $1.5 billion share of funding for the project, and outlined a plan to launch an independent review to suggest alternate alignment and costing proposals.

“As a province, we want to build the Green Line, but it has to be an alignment that makes sense,” Dreeshen told CTV News.

“We are actually commissioning a new alignment that will take place within the next few months, that will stretch, hopefully, as far south as …