Calgary council approves Green Line, ending heated political battle with province

The City of Calgary is moving forward with a multi-billion-dollar transit project that was the centre of a months-long battle with the Alberta government.Council hit pause on the $6.5-billion Green Line project after the province said last fall it wouldn’t provide its share of the funding if the downtown section included an underground tunnel, despite committing its funding to the project a month earlier.City council voted on Tuesday night to go ahead with the new version of the transit line, but construction on the downtown section is about two years away.