Tentative deal struck on SW Ring Road project
Posted Sep 19, 2013 12:24 am.
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A missing link in Calgary’s southwest Ring Road could be closer to becoming a reality.
Alberta Transportation Minister Ric McIver confirms to 660News, a tentative agreement has been tabled between the province and the Tsuu T’ina First Nation, the landowners where the proposed road would be built.
Tsuu T’ina members still need to hold a referendum vote set for October 24th.
Details haven’t been released on what a new draft agreement would look like.
An agreement voted down in 2009 would have seen the first nation sell 400 hectares of reserve land for about 275-million-dollars and a possible extra two-thousand hectares more.
The ring road’s southeast section could fully open by the beginning of October leaving only this disputed southwest portion to be realized.
