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Proposed regional rail service could link Lethbridge with other Alberta cities

ST. ALBERT, AB – An Airdrie-based company is proposing a new regional passenger rail service linking a number of Alberta communities.

An article published in the St. Albert Gazette, says Alberta Regional Rail Inc. indicates it envisions linking Edmonton and Calgary along with other municipalities including Lethbridge, Medicine Hat, Grande Prairie, and Fort McMurray.

The article also quotes a news release from Alberta Regional Rail stating that a rail system incorporating passenger rail removes cars and congestion along the QE2 freeway.

The company feels this rail service could be up and running in as little as three years time with funding through a public-private partnership.

You can read more about Alberta Regional Rail Inc. here: Alberta Regional Rail

 

Patrick Siedlecki
Patrick Siedlecki
Pat has been a mainstay in the CJOC News department from the time the station launched in 2007. He's been in the position of News Director since then and has been anchoring daily news casts as well as reporting and working behind the scenes. Community is important to him and keeping CJOC listeners and readers informed about what's happening across southern Alberta and beyond. Pat has been in radio broadcasting for the past 24 years, starting in Port Alberni on Vancouver Island in 1997 and then moving up island to Nanaimo for another few years before heading to Lethbridge in 2007. Pat grew up in the small Saskatchewan farming town of Foam Lake. After high school, he went to Western Academy Broadcasting College (WABC) in Saskatoon prior to moving to the island. Pat also spent several years broadcasting hockey in the BCHL as well as seven years as the radio voice of the Lethbridge Hurricanes in the WHL. Pat has been working at Cornerstone Funeral Home in Lethbridge as a Certified Life Celebrant and Funeral Assistant since 2016. News and sports have always been Pat's passion from the time he was a teenager and he's always been grateful to have had the opportunity to make that part of what's been a fun and long radio career!
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