Episode Details

This week we discuss an updated capital budget, and a new train. Plus, the police commission declines to show up to a council meeting in this, the city of champions.

Here are the relevant links for this episode:

Police commission

• City councillors call relationship with Edmonton police commissioners 'unhealthy' and 'frustrating'
• Sean Amato's tweet thread

Capital budget

• Edmonton council approves increase to $10.4B capital budget to build housing, renew roads and fix facilities
• Edmonton adds $262 million in capital spending on buses, LRT vehicles, infrastructure repairs and housing

Capital Line LRT

• News Release: City awards Design-Build contract for Capital Line South LRT Extension project
• Edmonton's Capital Line LRT to extend south as council approves bylaw to borrow $585M
• Cost for Edmonton Capital Line LRT south extension balloons by $242 million, council approves in secret

Transit ridership

• News Release: Transit ridership up 130 per cent
• Open Data Catalogue

More scooters

• News Release: Third e-scooter and e-bike vendor coming to Edmonton's streets

Blatchford

• Edmonton city councillor's idea to sell some undeveloped Blatchford land sputters out

City of Champions

• Should Edmonton bring back 'City of Champions' slogan?

From the Taproot newsroom

• Sustainable fashion house hosts runway experience to build city's scene
• New doc recreates Edmonton's norm-busting Flashback nightclub
• Taproot Edmonton roundups

Rapid fire

• News Release: City adds new water bottle-filling stations
• YEG Departures Roadway construction to end this fall

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