Friendmonton
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Read in the Sun about rumours from City admin about a 2 year (!) delay. Anyone else hearing something similar?
Valley Line LRT | TransEd/Marigold | City of Edmonton
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MacLac
Senior Member
Well if the Sun said it, especially if it came from the conspiracy theorist extraordinnaire Gunther, then it must be TRUE! 
TAS
Senior Member
For the record, this is what Gunter said:
"Sources inside city hall have told me that administration will admit to council this fall that the western leg will not be completed by 2028, as planned, but rather 2030 at the earliest."
"Sources inside city hall have told me that administration will admit to council this fall that the western leg will not be completed by 2028, as planned, but rather 2030 at the earliest."
Glenco
Senior Member
J_gordo
Active Member
I’m curious to see if they release some sort of rationale behind this estimate. From my perspective progress seems to be moving along somewhat on schedule. Even Transed, with all their construction delays, still managed to finish the actual construction of the valley line by the end of 2021 (5 years of construction). If I look at the west line, track is already being laid on multiple parts of the project (stony plain road and 182-189 street on 87 ave). Perhaps they believe commissioning and integration with the southeast leg will take longer than 1 year? But then again who knows if Lorne Gunter is actually being truthful
Gronk!
Senior Member
Gunter is an idiot, and I take anything he says with a grain of salt.
J_gordo
Active Member
This is the appropriate response imo
SMayo
Active Member
I haven’t heard much in a while, but last I had heard they were at or ahead of schedule, the weather the last year has also been as relatively ideal as it could for construction in Edmonton. It would be pretty shocking if all of a sudden there was a 2 year delay. The only thing I could think of would be structural issues on one of the bridges or elevated sections again.
thommyjo
Senior Member
Please also remember that I said this…as a member of the citizen working group for the project who has access to the comms leads for the project…Well if the Sun said it, especially if it came from the conspiracy theorist extraordinnaire Gunther, then it must be TRUE!
They won’t disclose details. But I mentioned a few months back that there were major delays and a bunch of people on here laughed at it.
Guess we’ll keep waiting and seeing. But they’re behind for sure. Gunther is happy to share it I’m sure, but doesn’t mean he’s lying.
David A
Senior Member
Perhaps his sources know more about this, but they may be hesitant to say more for obvious reasons. Despite his consistent anti transit agenda, I don't think Gunther would be making this up . Presumably he feels his sources are reliable enough to put this out there.
It doesn't say good things if the administration is keeping council in the dark on this, but this seems to be typical in how they manage their bosses rather than how it should be the other way around.
If they have not been informed, I suspect councillors will not be pleased to find out by reading this and it may prompt some uncomfortable questions and conversations back to the administration, which they may deserve.
It doesn't say good things if the administration is keeping council in the dark on this, but this seems to be typical in how they manage their bosses rather than how it should be the other way around.
If they have not been informed, I suspect councillors will not be pleased to find out by reading this and it may prompt some uncomfortable questions and conversations back to the administration, which they may deserve.
The_Cat
Senior Member
Gunter has always been negative about Edmonton. At this point, I'm sure that any delay would be noted by Marigold.
J_gordo
Active Member
I’m just curious as to what the “major delays are”?
Even the cracked piers didn’t set back the valley line by over 2 years, so I don’t understand what it could be?
MacLac
Senior Member
Appears to be on track with progress made so far……
TAS
Senior Member
I had also heard from somebody within the city who I thought is in the know that the Coronation rec centre was going to be well over budget. But a few months after that and more recently, I saw city admin update council on various projects where Coronation was said to be on budget. That was good news to me and I just thought the person I heard that from probably didn't know. Now I'm wondering.
northlands
Senior Member
Just going by the Q1 2024 progress update saying construction progress is only 16.2% after over 27 months of construction, that does track that they're definitely running severely behind if this is supposed to be five years of construction. Between Q1 2023 and Q1 2024, they only made 10.2% construction progress.
Pretty ugly stuff to read when typically this is the time where most construction progress is made (mid project) as you're fully staffed up, pre-lim work largely done, but before the slow fine detail stuff comes in later.
Pretty ugly stuff to read when typically this is the time where most construction progress is made (mid project) as you're fully staffed up, pre-lim work largely done, but before the slow fine detail stuff comes in later.