It comes after a day of backlash from the mayors of Edmonton and Calgary.
The province’s two largest cities were set to lose $12 million in funding from the province.
Social Services Minister Jason Nixon says it’s now clear the cities aren’t able to pay for the full program and provincial money will continue to flow.
“It is clear that the cities are not able to pay for their full programs at this time,” Nixon said. “As a result, Alberta’s government will continue to extend this funding to the cities and work with them to ensure their low-income transit program continues to be funded in the future.
In Edmonton, over 250,000 passes were sold in 2023- an increase of around 20 per cent compared with 2019. In Calgary, the low-income transit pass program was used nearly 119,000 times from January to March this year.
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