Notice of motion to kill Southwest BRT

Today, Ward 11 Councillor Jeromy Farkas and Ward 13 Councillor Diane Colley-Urquhart announced plans for a notice of motion they will be bringing to the next City Council meeting. The motion revives the anti-transit agenda of failed mayoral candidate Bill Smith and is aimed squarely at delaying, stopping and ultimately killing the Southwest BRT, which is currently under construction to bring rapid transit to transit-starved communities in southwest and southeast Calgary.

Special interests opposing Southwest BRT

The opposition to the Southwest BRT is driven by the same small special interest group, Ready2Engage that brought us Bill Smith’s failed mayoral anti-transit platform to cancel the Green Line LRT (http://www.metronews.ca/news/calgary/2017/10/05/bill-smith-wants-to-axe-calgary-green-line-tunnel-in-favour-of-longer-line.html) and the Southwest BRT (http://calgaryherald.com/news/local-news/bill-smith-joins-with-citizen-group-in-opposition-to-current-southwest-bus-rapid-transit-plans). Calgarians flatly rejected these policies, however, Councillor Farkas and Councillor Colley-Urquhart are now trying to bring them back from the dead, despite 62% of the Ward 11 vote that went to candidates that supported the Southwest BRT route (http://www.yyc4brt.ca/proven_brt_support_2017). Calgarians rejected Bill Smith’s anti-transit platform to kill the Southwest BRT and the Green Line in the recent municipal election

Calgary’s anti-transit special interest group behind the push to kill the Southwest BRT

Ready2Engage is an anti-transit special interest group run by a small number of individuals out of an exclusive southwest community. This group has spread false information about the Southwest BRT (http://www.yyc4brt.ca/pamphlet_fact_check) over the last year.



WE NEED YOUR HELP: Tell City Council not to let special interest groups kill rapid transit projects for ordinary Calgarians.

You can help save citywide rapid transit in Calgary in two easy steps:

1. Email City Council asking them not to cave to special interests and to support the Southwest BRT.

Killing the Southwest BRT would leave southwest communities and important destinations in southwest Calgary out in the cold without much needed rapid transit access. It would also jeopardize the South-Crosstown BRT that would provide rapid transit from southeast Calgary to Rockyview Hospital, Mount Royal University and more.



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