downtown transit Downtown leader wants more funds for Hiregood. As city administration prepares a Downtown Action Plan, Puneeta McBryan, the executive director of the Edmonton Downtown Business Association, says the Downtown Core Patrol service that her organization contracts to Hiregood, a company that employs people with lived experience with being unhoused, needs more money.

transit infrastructure Tariff threat colours city's train-replacement options, transit watcher says The City of Edmonton is set to replace 37 high-floor LRT vehicles by 2029 that run on the Capital and Metro lines, including some that have been in use since the system opened in 1978.

Mar 21, 2025 · podcast election Noted: Pride flags, LRT safety, and Hamilton's decision. Pride flags at Edmonton libraries, dozens more transit peace officers at LRT stations, and one two-term councillor's decision to drop out of the coming municipal election in October are three stories that the co-hosts of Episode 299 of Speaking Municipally examined.

Mar 6, 2025 · A city committee is urging council to partner with EPCOR to accelerate the adoption of ground-source heat pumps. This week, council committees will meet to debate whether to extend the community revitalization levies in downtown and the Quarters, hear about the city's new plan to prevent violence ...

Feb 21, 2025 · business technology Check the Label app could 'push our politicians' as tariff threat grows, Punchcard says Sam Jenkins, the managing partner of Punchcard Systems, says his company's new Check the Label app can help consumers get something they seek — products made in Canada that can buffer the economic effect of American tariffs.

Jan 14, 2025 · The Alberta government's work to lure data centres to the province and spur artificial intelligence could be a costly effort that exceeds the capacity of our electrical grid and highlight how expensive our electricity is, says the operator of several independent data centres in Edmonton. "We have something like five or 10% of the expected data centre capacity we'll need for the next five or 10 ...

Oct 22, 2024 · The authors of the new Downtown Investment Plan told the co-hosts of Episode 281 of Speaking Municipally that public investment is necessary to stimulate Edmonton's struggling downtown core, even though the requests are expensive and ambitious.. The plan, detailed in Taproot's Oct. 18 Business Roundup, outlines nearly $500 million in funding requests to the municipal, provincial, and federal ...

Feb 6, 2025 · transit lrt Second payment system in three years always part of plan, ETS head says The long process that Edmonton Transit Service has used to arrive at offering riders machines that allow tap-to-pay at LRT stations, transit centres, and on buses was by design, branch manager Carrie Hotton-MacDonald told Taproot.

podcast election Noted: Pride flags, LRT safety, and Hamilton's decision Pride flags at Edmonton libraries, dozens more transit peace officers at LRT stations, and one two-term councillor's decision to drop out of the coming municipal election in October are three stories that the co-hosts of Episode 299 of Speaking Municipally examined.

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