APRIL 2019 | BUSINESS ELITE CANADA 3
By Anna Guy
I
t was an important day for not
only Calgary, but all of Canada:
onMarch 12, 2019, North Ameri-
ca’s largest indoor Compressed
Natural Gas (CNG) bus facility offi-
cially opened. The City of Calgary’s
Stoney Compressed Natural Gas
Bus Storage and Transit Facility—a
$174 million, 44,300-square-metre
facility (the equivalent of 27 NHL
rinks) will provide storage and main-
tenance space for 470 of Calgary’s
city buses, with detail cleaning bays,
and, most notably, and on-site CNG
gas fuelling infrastructure.
“Our government has a strong
record of investing in a sustainable
transportation network for Calgary,
supporting both vehicle and public
infrastructure,” said the Honour-
“Investments in
transit are among the
best investments any
city can make—they
are investments in
the environment,
reducing congestion
and improving
mobility.”
Calgary Mayor Naheed Nenshi.
