Valley Line LRT | TransEd/Marigold | City of Edmonton

[Gronk!]

I was talking to the guy at milwoods last week who works in training he said they are looking to start operations anytime between April to June if everything goes right so maybe next month

I hope this happens although I won't be holding my breath.

 

[The_Cat]

Make sure you send that feedback. I think they got a lot of feedback about the light sequencing at the top of Connors and it eventually did get sorted.

I did contact Valley Line LRT on the Facebook page.

 

[fungus_eater]

between April to June if everything goes right so maybe next month

April fools?

 

[The_Cat]

It looks like frequency is less than 10 minutes (more like 7 or 8). Or approaching five min

 

[The_Cat]

Looks like the EB track may be the only landing track (off-peak).

 

[EdwardEdm]

Looks like the EB track may be the only landing track (off-peak).

There's usually a preferred routing at terminus stations, and as you have observed, that preferred routing is to crossover to the outbound track in advance of arrival at the terminus.

 

[Gronk!]

https://twitter.com/x/status/1633940441954492421

 

[EdwardEdm]

Seemed to be no trains on line today? Figures, the day that I kind of/ sort of headed out to see what the testing was looking like rather than my usual spotting's around MWTC on my commute.
I did find that derails, grounding cables, and barricades were in place at the north end of the guideway. Not sure what the reason was for the guideway being shut down. Did spot a few other TransEd/ WPE crews working with in the RoW. Perhaps today was just a maintenance day after a few days of simulated ops.

 

[The_Cat]

I wonder if it's related to this:

https://twitter.com/x/status/1631786574668259328

 

[The_Cat]

https://twitter.com/x/status/1634278044298002432

 

[cliffapotamus]

https://twitter.com/x/status/1634278044298002432

from the website linked in the tweet: "System Demonstration is expected to start later this month". beyond that, there appears to be several phases of service-level testing, frequencies, and more training. the webpage is otherwise pretty scant on figures, just the usual content about testing and safety. looking at the little 'project trackmap' thing they have posted, we have a couple months of testing to go, at least.

 

[The_Cat]

I think I'm cautiously optimistic about the LRT.

 

[Glenco]

I think I'm cautiously optimistic about the LRT.

That would make one of you.

 

[The_Cat]

Cautiously optimistic in the sense that if there’s testing going on, the LRT is closer to opening (Captain Oblivious quote). I’ve seen the LRT testing at higher frequencies .

 

[awstott]

Well it was a day of grounding cables and derails on my way home today. Western Pacific working at Bonnie Doon north of the crossover yet again - something must really be screwed up there as they seem to always be there. Grounding cables and derails at the north end of the elevated guideway into Davies as well. Western Pacific truck on the rails with grounding cables just north of 36A Ave as well - they were messing with one of the boxes at the top of one of the poles - hopefully to fix light timings (hahahah!)