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While the city isn’t ready to go full steam ahead on an LRT link to the airport, the issue is at least back on the agenda.

A report destined for Wednesday’s transportation and transit committee meeting specifically mentions plans to extend the city’s CTrain network to the Calgary International Airport, but councillors aren’t prepared to call it a response to increased momentum for a 2026 Winter Olympics bid.

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“Definitely, if the Olympic bid did work out, then this might be a possibility,” said Coun. Shane Keating, chair of the transportation and transit committee.

“But this isn’t a ‘because-of.’

“Vancouver never got their spur to the airport until they actually got the Olympics.”

The report updates the second stage of 2012’s Airport Trail Functional Planning Study by recommending widening Airport Trail to accommodate an LRT connection to the airport.

Stage 2 includes a full road interchange between Airport Trail and 19th Street N.E. and a partial cloverleaf farther east at Barlow Trail, with completion anticipated around 2029.