Who To Contact

Who To Contact:

Share Your Concerns

With Decision Makers

The recommendation for the 87^th Avenue alignment is going before the City of Edmonton Transportation and Public Works Committee on September 9th. The Committee is chaired by Councillor Bryan Anderson. The other Committee members are Mayor Mandel, Councillor Kim Krushell, Councillor Ben Henderson and Councillor Ed Gibbons. This Committee will then be making a recommendation to City Council for a final recommendation.

Ways To Register Your Concerns and Provide Input:

1) It is critical that you express your concerns in writing to City Council in advance of the meeting. Your letters and phone calls could focus both on concerns regarding the City’s process in putting forward this recommendation and the merits of the recommendation itself.

2) You can also share your views to members of the media, such as through Letters to the Editor

3) You can attend the September 9th meeting of the Transportation Committee. While all citizens are given the opportunity to speak for 5 minutes at the meeting, we are trying to coordinate a small group of people to each speak to an issue as part of a larger presentation. We have been counseled several times that while having lots of citizens show up to hear the presentations on September 9th is a good thing, having hundreds of five minute individual presentations is not.

4) If you would like to provide some input to the small group doing the presentation, please contact us at westlrtconcerns@shaw.ca . You can also go to the YOUR INPUT section of this website and send us your views.

Possible Areas of Comment are:

Lack of Consultation and Public Awareness: The City of Edmonton could have done a great deal more to make sure the West LRT proposal was more widely known and discussed. Many affected residents either still do not know of the recommendation or are only just finding out about it.
Short Time Frames for Reaction: Short time frames for affected neighbourhoods to react and respond to the recommendation – the Open Houses were only one month before the scheduled hearing date.
Lack of study of impacts on affected neighbourhoods: The City has not answered questions as to how access across 87 Avenue will be impacted nor about traffic flows at the already congested intersections of 87 Avenue and 149 Street, and 87th Avenue and 170th Street. There is also the question of rezoning and the development of these residential neighborhoods into a high density traffic corridor.
Limited Opportunity for Increased Ridership: Under current zoning rules, there is limited opportunity for transit oriented development and higher density development. Without the opportunity for higher density development it is difficult to justify an expenditure of the magnitude of what is proposed.
Impact on the River Valley: The recommended alignment goes right through a pristine area of the River Valley. The City has adopted policies all designed to preserve and protect the River Valley. This recommendation completely ignores those policies.
Lack of Study of Alternate Routes: Given that the City is planning to spend nearly $2 billion (in today’s dollars), all potential alignments should be fully studied and considered.

Address Letters to:

Letters should be written and copied to the following political representatives:

1. Mayor of Edmonton

2. City Officials

3. City Councillors

Letters may also be written to the following media:

1. Edmonton and area Newspapers

2. Edmonton and area Radio Stations

3. Edmonton and area Television News Channels

City of Edmonton Mayor
Mayor Stephen Mandel 2nd Floor, City Hall 1 Sir Winston Churchill Square Edmonton, AB TSJ 2R7 Phone: (780) 496-8100 Fax: (780) 496-8292
City of Edmonton Officials
Bob Boutilier, General Manager City of Edmonton Transportation Department 15^th Floor, Century Place 9803 -102A Avenue Edmonton, AB T5J 3A3 Phone: (780) 496-2808 Fax: (780) 496-2803 Email: transportation@edmonton.ca
Email comments to lrtplan@edmonton.ca Phone: Ryan Betker, City of Edmonton Transportation, 496-1792

City of Edmonton Councilors
WARD 1
Councillor Karen Leibovici 2nd Floor, City Hall 1 Sir Winston Churchill Square Edmonton, AB T5J 2R7 Phone: (780) 496-8120 Fax: (780) 496-8113	Councillor Linda Sloan 2nd Floor, City Hall 1 Sir Winston Churchill Square Edmonton. AB T5J 2R7 Phone: (780) 496-8122

WARD 2
Councillor Ron Hayter 2nd Floor, City Hall 1 Sir Winston Churchill Square Edmonton, AB T5J 2R7 Phone: (780) 496-8128	Councillor Kim Krushell 2nd Floor, City Hall 1 Sir Winston Churchill Square Edmonton, AB TSJ 2R7 Phone: (780) 496-8136
WARD 3
Councillor Ed Gibbons 2nd Floor, City Hall 1 Sir Winston Churchill Square Edmonton, AB TSJ 2R7 Phone: (780) 496-8138	Councillor Tony Caterina 2nd Floor, City Hall 1 Sir Winston Churchill Square Edmonton, AB T5J 2R7 Phone: (780) 496-8333 Fax: (780) 496-8113

WARD 4
Councillor Jane Batty 2nd Floor, City Hall 1 Sir Winston Churchill Square Edmonton, AB T5J 2R7 Phone: (780) 496-8140	Councillor Ben Henderson 2nd Floor, City Hall 1 Sir Winston Churchill Square Edmonton, AB T5J 2R7 Phone: (780) 496-8146 Fax: (780) 496-8113

WARD 5
Councillor Bryan Anderson 2nd Floor City Hall 1 Sir Winston Churchill Square Edmonton, AB T5J 2R7 Phone: (780) 496-8130	Councillor Don lveson 2nd Floor, City Hall 1 Sir Winston Churchill Square Edmonton, AB T5J 2R7 Phone: (780) 496-8132 Fax: (780) 496-8113

WARD 6
Councillor Amarjeet Sohi 2nd Floor, City Hall 1 Sir Winston Churchill Square Edmonton, AB T5J 2R7 Phone: (780) 496-8148 Fax: (780) 496-8113	Councillor Dave Thiele 2nd Floor, City Hall 1 Sir Winston Churchill Square Edmonton, AB T5J 2R7 Phone: (780) 496-8142 Fax: (780) 496-8113 Email: dave.thiele@edmonton.ca
For more information contact: Office of the Councillors 2nd Floor, City Hall 1 Sir Winston Churchill Square Edmonton, AB T5J 2R7 Phone: (780)496-8110 Fax: (780) 496-8113 E-mail: City Councillors (entire group)

Also call : City of Edmonton Citizens Action Line Phone: (780)496-8200



Edmonton Newspapers
Edmonton Journal Roy Cook, Editor Box 2421 Edmonton, Alberta T5J 2S6 Phone: (780)429-5100 Fax: (780)498-5677 Email: letters@the journal.canwest.com	Edmonton Sun Graham Dalziel, Editor-in-Chief Suite 250, 4990 – 92 Street Edmonton, Alberta T6B 3A1 Phone: (780)468-0100 Fax: (780)468-0139 Email: mailbag@admsun.com

Edmonton Radio Stations
CHED Radio Syd Smith, Program Director News 5204 — 84 Street N.W. Edmonton, Alberta T6E 5N8 Phone: (780) 440-6300 Fax: (780) 469-5937 E-mail: chednews@63oched.com	CFCW Suite 2394, 8882 - 170 Street NW. Edmonton, Alberta T5T 4M2 Phone: (780) 437-4996 Website: www.cbc.ca
CISN FM 103.9 Chris Scheetz, Program Director 5204 - 84 Street NW. Edmonton, Alberta T6E 5N8 Phone: (780) 469-6397 Fax: (780) 469-6937 E-mail: ClSNFM@corusent.com	Cool 880 AM 5204 - 84 Street N.W. Edmonton, Alberta T6E 5N8 Phone: (780) 424-8800 Website: www.inews880.com
Magic 99 Kurt Leavins, Station Manager Suite 700, 5241 Calgary Trail Edmonton, Alberta T6H 5G8 Phone: (780) 433-7877 Fax: (780) 438-8484 E-mail: magic99news@rawIco.com Website: www.rawlco.com	CBC Radio P.O. Box 555 Edmonton, Alberta T5J 2P4 Phone: (780) 468-7500 Regional Director - Radio/TV Phone: (780) 468-7505 Managing Editor - Radio/TV Phone: (780) 468-7526
Shine 105.9 FM 5316 Calgary Trail NW. Edmonton, Alberta T6H 4J8 Phone: (780) 446-4930 Fax: (780) 469-5335