One southeast city alderman says a report coming to transit on Wednesday is way-off base when it comes to the new proposed leg of the LRT.

Ward 12′s Shane Keating says he doesn’t agree with a new price tag that pegs the total cost for the project at 2.7 Billion with a timeline of 27 years.

He tells 660News downtown and northern portions were added in the figures and he plans to go over the math with a fine-tooth comb.

Officials have set aside 10 Million for a detailed study that Keating says will plan the rail line down to the millimetre.

He’s calling for the project to be completed in phases in hopes of coming up with a quicker solution.

“If we took every penny that came into the city, we still wouldn’t have enough to do it,” he says. “I need to convince council and administration, that’s the way to go.”

Keating’s hoping to start downtown and build the overpass over the river at 9th Avenue so buses can use it and begin to speed up traffic.

The Ward 12 politician says his ward alone has grown by 25,000 people in just three years.

He calls it an issue the city “can’t afford to wait on” and is hoping for help and the cooperation from the two other levels of government.

“The quicker we start the stages, the better things will be,” Keating says.

He’s hoping for a maximum of ten years before we get a partial LRT but adds Calgary needs a true Bus Rapid Transit system to speed things up in the interim.