Valley Line LRT | TransEd/Marigold | City of Edmonton

[Mo4]

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Rail getting installed along 87ave and 163rd street

That beautiful street facing infill... Who needs windows!

 

[J_gordo]

After reading and seeing footage of the Finch West LRT, my complaints about the Valley Line's speed and transit signal priority are gone. The Valley Line looks like a high speed metro in comparison.

Is there a reason why it’s going so slow? There is no way it was designed to go 20 km/h along the whole alignment

 

[Kosy123]

Is there a reason why it’s going so slow? There is no way it was designed to go 20 km/h along the whole alignment

From what I've read, apparently both this and Eglinton have conditional signal priority. The LRT line has full signal priority built in, it's just not enabled.

I'm seeing people say it stops at every red light for 2 min which is insane if that's true.

 

[J_gordo]

From what I've read, apparently both this and Eglinton have conditional signal priority. The LRT line has full signal priority built in, it's just not enabled.

I'm seeing people say it stops at every red light for 2 min which is insane if that's true.

But even along parts where there are no intersections it still is just crawling along. Are they maybe working out things still or? It just seems crazy it’s that slow.

 

[The_Cat]

Perhaps they're still working out bugs.

 

[TAS]

Perhaps they're still working out bugs.

I don't think so. Single vehicle priority.

This explains it.

46 minutes for 10km or 13km/hr for $3.7 billion.

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[thommyjo]

I don't think so. Single vehicle priority.

This explains it.

46 minutes for 10km or 13km/hr for $3.7 billion.

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Beyond stupid

 

[fromyeg]

I don't think so. Single vehicle priority.

This explains it.

46 minutes for 10km or 13km/hr for $3.7 billion.

46 minutes for 10km is really not good.

Let’s hope they makes some changes to the speed and signalling and improve it.

The runner who races the street cars will have no trouble beating the Finch West LRT.

 

[The_Cat]

 

[The_Cat]

The nice thing about Edmonton's Valley Line LRT is that the train usually gets signal priority. For the Finch line, I wonder if they could use jersey-median style curbs along some segments of the line.

 

[TAS]

A national housing commission developed a set of actions and targets that cities must meet to receive federal housing accelerator money and I think the federal government (and/or provincial) needs to also set some standards for lrt money. Can't have a system costing billions with the kind of travel time results were seeing in Toronto.

If we're not prioritizing public transportation on there routes (which seems like mostly a Canada/US issue), it's never going to have the kind of outcomes desired.

 

[The_Cat]

A lot of traffic signals going up along 104 Avenue.

 

[The_Cat]

 

[ADob]

Oooo, no left on red?! That's for chumps, for dang sure, and will not apply to me!

 

[J_gordo]

https://www.linkedin.com/posts/cald...urce=social_share_send&utm_campaign=copy_link

This seems very interesting. Maybe hoping to speed up track work next year?