Windermere
Active Member
Just remove the Twin Brooks station, they don't even want it anyway.
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Capital Line LRT
- Thread starter Daveography
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111 St is the only way in and out of Twin Brooks. Unless the LRT line is moved to the East side of 111 (how?), that would essentially be locking them into a suburban fortress and not providing an alternative.
BASE
Active Member
Indeed it could be added later on if there was a need for it and budget allowed. Ellerslie is a important and busy road.
Sure for a local roads I can process at grade crossings to an extent but how are we really preparing to become a city of 2 million if we can't even have a grade separated crossing at a pretty major arterial road with a transit hub, park and ride, and new hospital in the near future.
yeggator
Active Member
Maybe the city could get away with keeping the Heritage Valley Station at-grade, but if they want to mitigate a traffic disaster, they need to trench Ellerslie Road under the tracks when they extend the line south to the hospital (which likely won't happen for another decade at least). To be honest, while it'll be sad to not get an elevated high-floor station, this might be a good option. Trenching the road will be a significantly cheaper way to add grade separation.
husky
Active Member
I like your line of thought here. Doing a shallow cut and cover like they're doing at 23 Avenue (could even be less involved here because it's relatively greenfield) might even work better for the LRT line itself though since it would be a smaller ROW of disturbance required.
BrettB
Active Member
Good points. The key would be to remember (lots of) space for pedestrians and bicycles -- underpasses are often uncomfortable if you're not in a vehicle and non-motorized people are often overlooked in these types of projects.
Reecemartin
Active Member
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fromyeg
Active Member
The CoE needs to listen to Reece.
TravellingChris
Active Member
Extremely disappointing. Once again the City is cheaping out on a major infrastructure project. It's like they learned nothing from the mess of at-grade crossings on the Metro Line at 111 Avenue and Princess Elizabeth Avenue. Instead of building something whose design will be sustainable as the area grows and Ellerslie Road traffic volume increases, they go for the el cheapo option.
The_Cat
Senior Member
Edmonton sure likes cheaping out on projects.
TAS
Senior Member
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Will be interesting to see where city council falls on this when the recommendation gets to them.
Gronk!
Senior Member
Edmonton Capital Line LRT extension will be scaled back or cost more
Stretching Edmonton's Capital Line LRT south to Ellerslie Road will cost more money than expected unless the city scales back the plan.
edmontonjournal.com
What Janz says makes sense, although I don't know how much of a tax increase this will cost.
bodsbods9090
Active Member
Don't go at-grade at Ellerslie. Do it (elevated) now because the pain it may cause later will be an issue.
Scale back on the cars and park and ride for now for sure. That makes sense to me.
Scale back on the cars and park and ride for now for sure. That makes sense to me.
Edmcowboy11
Senior Member
Agree that the station should be elevated or worst case scenario they should build the current track offset to where a final elevated track would be. This way at least the elevated track and station can be built at a later date with much less difficulty.
As for the park n ride stalls there are already plenty already built.
As for the park n ride stalls there are already plenty already built.
The_Cat
Senior Member
I’d also eliminate the Twin Brooks Station. It would like serve very few riders.