You may have heard that several bridges will be closed at once, but is that true? We dig into bridge maintenance planned for the next few years. We also discuss new bus priority measures, Lime's winter cycling pilot, an audit of DATS, and the upcoming wildfire season.
Here are the relevant links for this episode:
Bridge maintenance
- No, five bridges in downtown are not closing all at once
- Opinion: Perfect storm of bridge closures will devastate Downtown
- Edmonton business group urges bridge construction pause fearing Downtown backslide from snarled traffic
- Downtown biz group worries Edmonton bridge construction crunch could hurt city's core
Bus priority measures
Lime winter pilot
Wildfire season
- City of Edmonton adds proactive measures to wildfire protection plan
- Edmonton creating wildfire strategy as part of emergency management plan
DATS audit
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- Fringe historian to document Edmonton theatre history
- Check the Label app could 'push our politicians' as tariff threat grows, Punchcard says
Rapid fire
- Alberta cold snap breaks more records as deep freeze set to recede Thursday
- Edmonton looks to impress as potential expansion destination by hosting PWHL neutral-site game
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