$9.2B can only fulfil so many wishes

The Alberta government is set to put $9.2 billion into construction, repairs and infrastructure upgrades in the coming year.

It’s a record amount of capital spending, but not everything made the cut. Budget 2017 includes a list of 109 projects deferred to another budget cycle.

“Keep swinging,” said Infrastructure Minister Brian Mason, when asked what people pitching those projects should take from that. “It’s not like we don’t like these projects. It’s just that we only have so much money . ... I hope we will get to you sometime.”

Here are a few key funded and unfunded projects for Edmonton and northern Alberta:

FUNDED

New south Edmonton hospital

Edmonton’s Valley Line LRT

Upgrades to the Misericordia Hospital’s emergency department

New stand-alone building for child and adolescent mental health and the Norwood Long Term Care facility at Edmonton’s Royal Alexandra Hospital

Fort Saskatchewan’s

Highway 15 bridge twinning

Athabasca’s Highway 813 bridge replacement

Four new schools in Edmonton, 26 provincewide

Energy-efficient LED lighting for highways

Caribou rearing facility near Grande Cache

Fixing Edmonton’s atgrade rail crossing at 50 Street is identified as a priority, pending an agreement for matching federal dollars

UNFUNDED

Telus World of Science expansion, Aurora Project

Expansion to Edmonton’s Winspear Centre

Edmonton’s Boyle Street

Community Services redevelopment

Edmonton southwest

Anthony Henday upgrades including adding extra lanes and widening bridges, safety upgrades at 119 and 127 streets

Highway 881 passing lanes and rest areas

Permanent supportive housing for chronically homeless in Grande Prairie

Purchasing land for an Edmonton law courts expansion