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A group of Calgary politicians, including two federal members of parliament and a city councillor, are blasting recently proposed changes to the city’s Green Line plan for exceeding cost estimates while excluding suburbanites.

City administrators recommended last week that the 46-kilometre Green Line LRT be split into phases, with the first 20-kilometre segment carrying a price tag of $4.65 billion — a figure higher than initial estimates for the entire line.

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Conservative Calgary MPs Michelle Rempel and Tom Kmiec, and Ward 4 Coun. Sean Chu said in a news release Sunday that they’re frustrated that the city’s latest Green Line plan excludes “a wide swath of suburban communities.”

“I think a lot of taxpayers will be asking themselves how this happened,” said Rempel.

“I suspect many suburban Calgarians who are desperate for access to the LRT are going to be asking some pretty tough questions about why they should accept such a massive reduction in scope while the price tag for this project has ballooned.”