A mock-up of the Urbos 100, Calgary Transit's Green Line low floor light rail Vehicle. Jim Wells/Postmedia file

Varcoe: Green Line dream 'not dead yet' as business leaders hold out hope for a compromise

Head of the Calgary Construction Association certainly hoping death isn't the fate of Calgary's long-awaited LRT development after the Green Line was declared DOA by city council last week

by · Calgary Herald

Bill Black shared a video clip from Monty Python and the Holy Grail with his colleagues on Friday morning.

Varcoe: Green Line dream 'not dead yet' as business leaders hold out hope for a compromise Back to video

In the scene, an ailing man is dropped into a cart full of corpses while insisting he’s not dead yet.

Today, that might be the mantra of Calgary’s Green Line LRT project by some of its most dedicated business supporters, such as Black.

“It’s a therapeutic way to maybe take the edge off of it, and this idea that the Green Line wasn’t dead yet,” the president of the Calgary Construction Association said about the video.