Valley Line LRT | TransEd/Marigold | City of Edmonton

Taken On November 17th, 2025 West Edmonton Mall
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CplKlinger said:
The latest update on Building Edmonton came out:

Marigold Infrastructure Partners (MIP) and the City have developed a plan to accelerate roadwork and trackwork in key areas in 2025. This work will result in significant traffic restrictions, but will reduce the overall duration of traffic impacts by more than half. The accelerated plan will also get many of the roads into their final configuration by the end of 2025. Work also continues at many other sites along the alignment, including at stops and stations, the Lewis Farms storage facility, Gerry Wright operations and maintenance facility, and the elevated guideway along 87 Avenue. MIP has achieved 43.4% progress (as of the end of June 2025) as measured by the Independent Certifier. The first Light Rail Vehicle manufactured by Hyundai Rotem Company is expected to be shipped from South Korea at the end of June 2025, arriving in Edmonton at the end of July.
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The Q3, 2025 update got released today, and construction was 52.2% complete as of the end of September.

It includes an update on the LRVs: "The first LRV arrived in Edmonton in July, was successfully powered, and underwent a water tightness and functional test in August. The second and third LRVs were shipped on Sept 22; the second is expected to arrive in October. Thirteen LRVs have completed their assembly, with 12th-13th undergoing complete car testing as of September." They forecast that the first eight LRVs will be delivered by year end.
 
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CplKlinger said:
The Q3, 2025 update got released today, and construction was 52.2% complete as of the end of September.

It includes an update on the LRVs: "The first LRV arrived in Edmonton in July, was successfully powered, and underwent a water tightness and functional test in August. The second and third LRVs were shipped on Sept 22; the second is expected to arrive in October. Thirteen LRVs have completed their assembly, with 12th-13th undergoing complete car testing as of September." They forecast that the first eight LRVs will be delivered by year end.
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Amazing to see the progress. A good 20% this last year. Also sad to imagine 3 more years till completion, and likely longer till opening after testing (assuming no delays).
 
^ Good news that this has been one of the worst years for construction pain and the next few years shouldn't be nearly as miserable. A lot of the road re-alignments and track bed is poured on numerous spreads (i.e. 104 ave and east SPR in particular) which are some of the worst impeding construction zones.

Next summer a lot of 87 ave and hopefully 156 st should all be fully open to traffic in its new alignment as well. Then it is just 102 ave, waiting for stations to be built and all the finishing touches.

Definitely been a blessed year this year though. Relatively mild and early spring and now we're just over a week away from December and heavy civil is still full speed ahead. Gotta love it.
 
thommyjo said:
Amazing to see the progress. A good 20% this last year. Also sad to imagine 3 more years till completion, and likely longer till opening after testing (assuming no delays).
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At the pace it went through 3 quarters of 2025, it's probably another 2 years of construction and then testing-ops. To be more specific, another 7 quarters at the current pace, so we could be looking at late summer 2027 for testing to start.
 
Like the article said, the connection from Bonnie Doon to Whyte Avenue routes takes some navigation. Routes like 500X are direct from downtown to 17 Street. Also, the Valley Line doesn’t reach MacEwan yet and I’m sure that there could be more students riding the Valley Line once the west leg opens.
 
The_Cat said:
Like the article said, the connection from Bonnie Doon to Whyte Avenue routes takes some navigation. Routes like 500X are direct from downtown to 17 Street. Also, the Valley Line doesn’t reach MacEwan yet and I’m sure that there could be more students riding the Valley Line once the west leg opens.
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I am hopeful that once the WLRT is open they will turn the 500x into a shuttle between Meadows and Davies. That would had 3000+ daily trips to the Valley Line.
 
EdwardEdm said:
I am hopeful that once the WLRT is open they will turn the 500x into a shuttle between Meadows and Davies. That would had 3000+ daily trips to the Valley Line.
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I asked a guy I know who works for ETS (he's in charge of the team that plans detours and stop closures for construction and events) about why they didn't terminate route 500x at Davies when VLSE opened. He said there was a lot of pushback from local residents about losing the two 500x stops on Conners Road. I dunno how accurate that is though, since he's just one guy going off memory.
 
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