Canmore supports transportation plan

Canmore Leader, Canmore, AB:

"Canmore town council has agreed to support a plan that could eventually lead to a public transportation partnership being forged in the Bow Valley.

Council unanimously supported a motion Tuesday to support a provincial grant application from the Town of Banff to begin setting up a Bow Valley Transportation Authority.
By gaining the Town of Canmore’s support, the grant application is increased to $75,000 to complete the study."

At this point, the application aims to hire a consultant to see what sort of structure is needed to run a Bow Valley Transportation Authority, and how that service will be funded. The consultant will not be studying how the transportation project will run on a day to day basis, simply how it will be governed.

“This will hire a consultant to weigh the governance options… to handle transportation,” planning and engineering deputy senior manager Kevin van Vliet said. “This will look at what sort of agency can be created that can reasonably, equitably operate between the two towns. This looks at what sort of corporation can we have to make this work.”

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