A day after city councillors were accused of making a deal to add private funding to the southeast leg of the LRT – council voted in favour of moving forward with building the LRT.

On Wednesday, all but three city councillors voted in favour of moving forward with this part of the project.

The cost of this leg has been slated to cost $1.8 billion – with the city covering a $800 million portion, and then asking other levels of government to cover the rest.

At least one counciller tried to put forward a motion to split the cost of the project three ways evenly, however that motion was defeated.

The news came the same day, a video rendering of what the south east leg of the LRT could look like was released.

On Wednesday, officials released a six-minute video rendering of the project.

The video shows the possible south-east LRT line, which will be 13.1 kilometres long, with eight stops.

The line starts at Mill Woods Town Centre and ends in west downtown – throughout the line the track runs at ground level, underground and in a raised portion that will allow the track to run over 75 Street.

It also requires the addition of a new bridge over the river – joining the other LRT lines at Churchill Square.

That line could also connect to the possible line into the west end, the total cost of a line from the south east to the west end of Edmonton will cost about $3.3 billion.

The release came a day after it was revealed that the new LRT line could include a private partner – that section of line alone has a current pricetag of $1.8 billion.

City councillors were in a closed-door meeting for much of the morning, discussing funding options, some councillors have said they are interested in a four-way split funding option, with money coming from the municipal, provincial and federal governments – with the chance the fourth partner could be a private company.

On Tuesday, Public Service Alberta and unions representing transit workers said councillors made a backroom deal to add a private company to the line – accusing the federal government of threatening to withhold $300 million if a public-private partnership (P3) wasn’t agreed to.

Councillors told CTV News they have had private meetings on the subject, but that’s standard procedure – and no deal has been settled on.

Construction is slated to start in 2017.

With files from Sean Amato