Shovels are in the ground on the southeast leg of Calgary’s Green Line LRT project, but how the tracks will get through the city’s downtown remains a contentious debate.

Construction began on the $6.2-billion project back in June, with work set to take place between Shepard and Calgary’s new event centre in Victoria Park. That section of the line is scheduled to be operational by 2031.

“Finally seeing construction, dust fly, things moving around, it’s great to see,” said Alberta’s Minister of Transportation and Economic Corridors, Devin Dreeshen.

But uncertainty remains for the segment through the downtown core.

Original plans had the Green Line tunnelling under the downtown core, but those were scrapped after the province threatened to pull its $1.5 billion share of funding after si

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