From our families to yours, with love and fellowship, we wish you peace, respite, rejuvenation, and all the best in 2025.

In lieu of mailing traditional holiday cards, we’ve opted to donate to several notable local charities. This season, our focus is on supporting four organizations doing deeply meaningful and important work to care for our 2SLGBTQIA+ neighbours.

Happy Holidays!

Bridgeland Elves are back again this season, spreading holiday cheer to neighbours that could use a helping hand.

Sign up today to help support this wonderful initiative. There are multiple ways and a variety of cost and time commitments available - from volunteering your time or baking skills, to making a stocking for a senior or sponsoring a family.

In 2024, we completed the streetscape improvements and infrastructure upgrades: on the north side of 1 Avenue N.E. between 6 Street to 7A Street N.E. and from 8A Street to 11 Street N.E.; also, improvements were made on the south side of 1 Ave NE between 7A Street to 9A Street N.E. Additionally, five intersections along 2 Avenue N.E. were upgraded in 2024 as part of the Bridgeland Main Street project. This included widening sidewalks and upgrading streetlighting to improve pedestrian safety, providing street furniture to enhance pedestrian comfort, beautifying the area with the addition of new naturalized turfs, decorative grasses, and new trees.

The 4th Avenue Flyover continue to undergo rehabilitation work that begin in Apriil 2024. This work is planned to carry through winter and will be completed in the Fall of 2025 . The flyover was constructed in 1982 and at an overall 430-meter span, the structure crosses over the Bow River and is Calgary's longest bridge. The flyover carries two lanes of traffic towards 3rd Street SE and is one of the primary routes into downtown. The 4th Avenue Flyover Rehabilitation Project is part of our normal rehabilitation program as this bridge was identified as a candidate for repair.

It was a busy summer for crews working on the 4th Ave Flyover Rehabilitation project.

Since our last update, crews have:

• Removed the existing curb and deck concrete overlay; 

• Completed pours of the new curb and deck on the left-hand lane; and

• Replaced the cast to finish the roadway barrier sections.

Please be prepared for upcoming overnight closures rotating between Riverfront Avenue and Memorial Drive/Edmonton Trail NE beginning on September 23rd, 2024. The closures are anticipated to occur overnight (9:00 pm to 5:00 am) and last approximately four weeks.

This construction season, as part of the Bridgeland Main Street Project, The City is completing sidewalk and streetscape improvements along 1 Avenue NE between 11 Street to 6 Street NE. Crews are finishing construction on the south side of 1 Avenue between 7A Street to 8A Street NE and we are targeting completion by the end of August 2024.

In order to accommodate CTrain maintenance work. Beginning Saturday, July 27 at the start of service until Sunday, July 28 at the end of service, there will be no Blue Line CTrain service between City Hall/Bow Valley College and Marlborough Stations. There will be various replacement shuttles to help support the closure.

This year’s HMCS Barn Burner was a wild success!

Councillors Kourtney Penner and Gian-Carlo Carra along with the Friends of HMCS Calgary Committee welcomed nearly 600 friends, family, community organizations. and service members to this year’s event! All to help raise funds for the Foothills Burn Treatment Centre and The Veterans Food Bank of Calgary on behalf of HMCS Calgary, our city’s namesake Navy ship.

The City of Calgary requires ENMAX Power to relocate existing electrical infrastructure to accommodate the Bridgeland Main Streets project.

Modifications will include burying overhead power lines and installing associated utility equipment along 1 Avenue Between 4 Street to 6 Street NE. Please refer to the below map for more information.

Currently, this work is anticipated to commence in July 2024, and last approximately 8 weeks. ENMAX has already begun sharing notices and having conversations with affected businesses and properties in advance of this work.

If you’ve traveled through Bridgeland lately, you may have noticed a few different varieties of protected cycling infrastructure popping up.

The City of Calgary is currently piloting four different types of wheeling lane separators along the north side of McDougall Road from 6 Street to 9 Street NE. Separators provide a highly visible barrier along a bike lane used to separate between people driving and people wheeling.