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Hotellier and pro muni candidate Don Koziak proposes halting LRT construction is favor of highways and interchanges
Koziak calls for halt to Edmonton LRT expansion
Mayoral candidate wants wider roads, more bus lanes
EDMONTON — Don Koziak kicked off his mayoral campaign Thursday by calling for construction of more freeway interchanges and a halt to LRT expansion.
“There is no silver bullet to cure us of our dependency on cars. Expansive LRT is certainly not the cure,” he told a news conference.
“We need clean, safe, well-maintained roads that allow our buses, taxis, cars and trucks to move goods and people, and that is my priority.”
The city is on track to complete a $725-million extension of the LRT from downtown to NAIT by 2014, with most of the money coming from the provincial Green Trip program. City council has also approved lines to the west end and Mill Woods worth a total of about $2 billion, along with routes to St. Albert and through downtown.
But Koziak, part owner of his family’s Chateau Louis Hotel and Conference Centre, said he wants this work stopped if possible because the city can’t afford it. Instead, his transportation priorities are interchanges on Whitemud Drive at 17th Street and on Yellowhead Trail at 66th Street and 149th Street, he said.
“LRT is one of those topics that suburban people really like, not because they will ever use it, but because they feel good about it,” he said. “What we have done is create an impediment to good traffic flow. That money could be spent on interchanges, wider roads and bus lanes.”
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http://www.edmontonjournal.com/news/...#ixzz0vlQsMu8M
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