Valley Line LRT | TransEd/Marigold | City of Edmonton

fromtraintotower said:
Depending how the rest of the construction goes, I feel that Valley Line West should be required studying for anyone wanting to know how to have a successful and productive project - and maybe even contrast that with Valley Line Southeast on what NOT to do!

(Yes I know about the infamous concrete mass but the fact that they removed the opening date after too many delays proves the issues during the southeast construction ran pretty deep.)
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If anything I think it shows how much better things go the second time around. Like mentioned before, lots of people at MIP worked at transed, so they took the lessons learned and have clearly made improvements.
 
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The progress they are making so far in January is quite impressive, usually the slowest construction month has seen lots of work progress. I’m optimistic
 
J_gordo said:
If anything I think it shows how much better things go the second time around. Like mentioned before, lots of people at MIP worked at transed, so they took the lessons learned and have clearly made improvements.
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Indeed. There was a recent article that discussed how it would be beneficial to have other downstream LRT projects to retain all the talent and expertise we have built, so future LRT projects don't have to reinvent the wheel - can add the metro and capital extensions into the mix too, as expertise we have gained locally.
 
I'm perfectly okay with doing that which of course means plenty more LRT Construction in the future. There is enough plans for the high floor lines the last easily another 20 years and low floor trams there's definitely potential for more work to spend that line via older plans such as the circle line
 
inclusion said:
Indeed. There was a recent article that discussed how it would be beneficial to have other downstream LRT projects to retain all the talent and expertise we have built, so future LRT projects don't have to reinvent the wheel - can add the metro and capital extensions into the mix too, as expertise we have gained locally.
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Then I certainly hope we can get another LRT extension lined up before this one is finished.
Edmcowboy11 said:
I'm perfectly okay with doing that which of course means plenty more LRT Construction in the future. There is enough plans for the high floor lines the last easily another 20 years and low floor trams there's definitely potential for more work to spend that line via older plans such as the circle line
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I'm not particularly confident about that. The BRT plans to Castle Downs make the next priority section (LRT to Castle Downs) rather unattractive for the price. Maybe we can get the next south extension moving but Castle Downs leap frogged it officially some time ago.
 
inclusion said:
Indeed. There was a recent article that discussed how it would be beneficial to have other downstream LRT projects to retain all the talent and expertise we have built, so future LRT projects don't have to reinvent the wheel - can add the metro and capital extensions into the mix too, as expertise we have gained locally.
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Only makes sense if you have the money to do it. Otherwise, you're another Harcourt, who said let's build it all at once, and dollars be damned. Thank heavens he said that after being in office.
 
J_gordo said:
Metro to St. Albert isn’t happening for another decade +
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Wouldn't it be nice though if St. Albert announced their extension somewhere during the early stages of construction of our northwest construction. Or better yet, the announce at the same time as Edmonton with just a later completion date.
 
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