{"id":523462,"date":"2026-03-09T00:00:14","date_gmt":"2026-03-09T00:00:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/523462\/"},"modified":"2026-03-09T00:00:14","modified_gmt":"2026-03-09T00:00:14","slug":"alberta-transportation-minister-says-passenger-rail-plan-coming-within-weeks","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/523462\/","title":{"rendered":"Alberta transportation minister says passenger rail plan coming within weeks"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.cbc.ca\/a\/assets\/texttospeech.svg\" alt=\"Text to Speech Icon\" width=\"44\" height=\"44\"\/><\/p>\n<p>Listen to this article<\/p>\n<p>Estimated 1 minute<\/p>\n<p>The audio version of this article is generated by AI-based technology. Mispronunciations can occur. We are working with our partners to continually review and improve the results.<\/p>\n<p>Alberta&#8217;s government says a long-awaited passenger rail master plan is expected to be made public within weeks.<\/p>\n<p>Transportation Minister Devin Dreeshen says with the plan complete, he&#8217;s hoping to announce it next month.<\/p>\n<p>Dreeshen says it aims to include proponents for a high-speed rail line between Edmonton and Calgary, and to connect the two cities and their international airports.<\/p>\n<p>Dreeshen says 80 per cent of the province&#8217;s population lives in the corridor connecting Edmonton and Calgary, and adds that private sector investment will be &#8220;very important.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>The rail connections have been talked about for more than a decade and could take even longer to develop.<\/p>\n<p>Premier Danielle Smith&#8217;s United Conservative government first announced its intention to create a new Crown corporation to oversee rail development almost two years ago, citing record population growth and congested highways. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Listen to this article Estimated 1 minute The audio version of this article is generated by AI-based technology.&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":523463,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[194293],"tags":[49,2798,48],"class_list":{"0":"post-523462","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-calgary","8":"tag-ca","9":"tag-calgary","10":"tag-canada"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/523462","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=523462"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/523462\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/523463"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=523462"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=523462"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=523462"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}