You can now tap your credit card, debit card, or digital wallet to ride transit. Additionally, we'll discuss updates to the capital and operating budgets, and progress towards the city's tree-planting goal.

Here are the relevant links for this episode:

Extreme weather

• News Release: Extreme weather response activated today
• Extreme Weather Response for Winter

Tap-to-pay

• News Release: Arc tap to pay launches in Edmonton region
• Want to pay for Edmonton transit using your credit card? Now you can

Traffic safety

• Opinion: Edmonton's traffic safety unit could make things worse

Budget updates

• Report: Operating Financial Update - Sept. 30, 2025
• Report: Capital Financial Update - Sept. 30, 2025
• March 2025: Edmonton 'still not ready' as 2024 population growth exceeded even breakneck forecast: Knack
• Edmonton - Housing Starts

Council budgets

• Report: Council Services Committee - Dec. 12, 2025

Tree planting

• News Release: City reaches another milestone towards tree planting goal
• Edmonton nearly halfway to tree goal, with slight extension

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