The Alberta government is set to put $9.2 billion into construction, repairs and infrastructure upgrades in the coming year.
It’s a record amount of capital spending, but not everything made the cut. Budget 2017 includes a list of 109 projects deferred to another budget cycle.
“Keep swinging,” said Infrastructure Minister Brian Mason, when asked what people pitching those projects should take from that. “It’s not like we don’t like these projects. It’s just that we only have so much money. … I hope we will get to you sometime.”
Here are a few key funded and unfunded projects for Edmonton and northern Alberta.
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Funded
• New south Edmonton hospital
• Edmonton’s Valley Line LRT
• Upgrades to the Misericordia Hospital’s emergency department
• New stand-alone building for child and adolescent mental health and the Norwood Long Term Care facility at Edmonton’s Royal Alexandra Hospital
• Fort Saskatchewan’s Highway 15 bridge twinning
• Athabasca’s Highway 813 bridge replacement
• Four new schools in Edmonton, 26 province-wide
• Energy-efficient LED lighting for highways
• Caribou rearing facility near Grande Cache
• Fixing Edmonton’s at-grade rail crossing at 50 Street is identified as a priority, pending an agreement for matching federal dollars
Unfunded
• Telus World of Science expansion, Aurora Project
• Expansion to Edmonton’s Winspear Centre
• Edmonton’s Boyle Street Community Services redevelopment
• Edmonton southwest Anthony Henday upgrades including adding extra lanes and widening bridges, safety upgrades at 119 and 127 streets
• Highway 881 passing lanes and rest areas
• Permanent supportive housing for chronically homeless in Grande Prairie
• Purchasing land for an Edmonton law courts expansion.
Source: Alberta Budget 2017
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