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Two city councillors have different opinions on the latest debate on Edmonton’s LRT network — the proposed Centre LRT route that would take riders down Whyte Avenue.

“Administration is confident the preferred east/west connection of the route will be located on Whyte Avenue and not on 76 Avenue,” said a report that will be brought to council’s executive committee on Monday.

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Coun. Ben Henderson’s ward sits to the north of Whyte Avenue.

“(It’s) where the ridership is, we’ve already got a very heavy bus presence going along there,” he said Saturday, adding the alternative proposal to put the Centre LRT along 76 Avenue didn’t make sense. “It took us way further south than you needed to go.”

He doesn’t foresee street width or flow of traffic as barriers to developing the LRT along the road. But he’s concerned about the capacity of intersections for traffic, including where Whyte Avenue connects to Gateway Boulevard and Calgary Trail.