Choose the downtown Green Line surface alignment
Transit & transportation · Sep 22, 2026
What changed
Council chose a surface route at 10 Avenue and 2 Street SW over the previously studied elevated alignment and requested further planning budgets.
City of Calgary, Green Line Downtown Segment, September 22 update · reviewed Oct 29, 2026Why this decision is included
A major current-term alignment choice. Both alternatives deliver rail, so selecting surface alignment is not scored as less rail investment.
How votes are grouped: This proposal is one decision family. Its readings, amendments and contextual votes cannot create additional independent evidence; an unscored proposal contributes no weight.
What Yes meant
Select the surface alignment and advance its planning, design and procurement.
What No meant
Reject this surface-alignment package; a member could instead prefer another rail alignment.
Alternatives and outcome
The shortlisted surface and elevated alignments were different ways to deliver rail, so disagreement does not establish opposition to rail itself.
The City reports that the surface alignment was approved and is in early design and planning; the downtown construction phase was not yet established.
in_progressA recorded vote or adoption does not establish that a project or service was delivered.
Recorded choices
| Date | Person | Decision | Recorded vote | Meaning and scoring rationale | Use |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Sep 22, 2026 | Andre Chabot | Choose the downtown Green Line surface alignment | Yes | Select the surface alignment and advance its planning, design and procurement. Both the selected and baseline options are rail alignments. Treating this Yes/No choice as a general pro/anti-transit score would be misleading. | Context / unscored |
Sep 22, 2026 | Andrew Yule | Choose the downtown Green Line surface alignment | Yes | Select the surface alignment and advance its planning, design and procurement. Both the selected and baseline options are rail alignments. Treating this Yes/No choice as a general pro/anti-transit score would be misleading. | Context / unscored |
Sep 22, 2026 | DJ Kelly | Choose the downtown Green Line surface alignment | Yes | Select the surface alignment and advance its planning, design and procurement. Both the selected and baseline options are rail alignments. Treating this Yes/No choice as a general pro/anti-transit score would be misleading. | Context / unscored |
Sep 22, 2026 | Harrison Clark | Choose the downtown Green Line surface alignment | Yes | Select the surface alignment and advance its planning, design and procurement. Both the selected and baseline options are rail alignments. Treating this Yes/No choice as a general pro/anti-transit score would be misleading. | Context / unscored |
Sep 22, 2026 | Jennifer Wyness | Choose the downtown Green Line surface alignment | No | Reject this surface-alignment package; a member could instead prefer another rail alignment. Both the selected and baseline options are rail alignments. Treating this Yes/No choice as a general pro/anti-transit score would be misleading. | Context / unscored |
Sep 22, 2026 | Jeromy Farkas | Choose the downtown Green Line surface alignment | Yes | Select the surface alignment and advance its planning, design and procurement. Both the selected and baseline options are rail alignments. Treating this Yes/No choice as a general pro/anti-transit score would be misleading. | Context / unscored |
Sep 22, 2026 | John Pantazopoulos | Choose the downtown Green Line surface alignment | Yes | Select the surface alignment and advance its planning, design and procurement. Both the selected and baseline options are rail alignments. Treating this Yes/No choice as a general pro/anti-transit score would be misleading. | Context / unscored |
Sep 22, 2026 | Kim Tyers | Choose the downtown Green Line surface alignment | Yes | Select the surface alignment and advance its planning, design and procurement. Both the selected and baseline options are rail alignments. Treating this Yes/No choice as a general pro/anti-transit score would be misleading. | Context / unscored |
Sep 22, 2026 | Landon Johnston | Choose the downtown Green Line surface alignment | Yes | Select the surface alignment and advance its planning, design and procurement. Both the selected and baseline options are rail alignments. Treating this Yes/No choice as a general pro/anti-transit score would be misleading. | Context / unscored |
Sep 22, 2026 | Mike Jamieson | Choose the downtown Green Line surface alignment | Yes | Select the surface alignment and advance its planning, design and procurement. Both the selected and baseline options are rail alignments. Treating this Yes/No choice as a general pro/anti-transit score would be misleading. | Context / unscored |
Sep 22, 2026 | Myke Atkinson | Choose the downtown Green Line surface alignment | Yes | Select the surface alignment and advance its planning, design and procurement. Both the selected and baseline options are rail alignments. Treating this Yes/No choice as a general pro/anti-transit score would be misleading. | Context / unscored |
Sep 22, 2026 | Nathaniel Schmidt | Choose the downtown Green Line surface alignment | Yes | Select the surface alignment and advance its planning, design and procurement. Both the selected and baseline options are rail alignments. Treating this Yes/No choice as a general pro/anti-transit score would be misleading. | Context / unscored |
Sep 22, 2026 | Raj Dhaliwal | Choose the downtown Green Line surface alignment | No | Reject this surface-alignment package; a member could instead prefer another rail alignment. Both the selected and baseline options are rail alignments. Treating this Yes/No choice as a general pro/anti-transit score would be misleading. | Context / unscored |
Sep 22, 2026 | Rob Ward | Choose the downtown Green Line surface alignment | Yes | Select the surface alignment and advance its planning, design and procurement. Both the selected and baseline options are rail alignments. Treating this Yes/No choice as a general pro/anti-transit score would be misleading. | Context / unscored |
Only reviewed policy choices are scored. Each independent decision family counts once per measure; choices within one budget or policy package share that family’s weight. statements, promises, absences and contextual amendments do not contribute. Two decisions are the minimum for a position. The sensitivity range shows the score after removing one decision at a time; it is not a statistical confidence interval or a prediction.
Published explanations
No sourced statements collected
This is a gap in the collected evidence; it does not establish a person’s views.
Documented policy leadership
No documented leadership entries collected
Sponsorship and committee appointments require an explicit source; a Yes vote alone does not establish either.