Edmcowboy11
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Location is because the Armoury wasn't going away as far as I knew.
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realkevbo
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As a former NAIT student who used the temp platform the new location looks a bit crap for ease of access to the campus. Do you enter through the back of the arena now or walk all the way to the old entrance at Building X? Really just seems like they could have held off opening this station as well.
rmp
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This is my point, exactly. Not only do students and staff have to walk around the armoury, but there is no proper entrance to NAIT, either. Seems like the location was poorly chosen, imo.
Even the new campus development master plan seems to ignore the armoury. Either they know something the public (i.e. me) doesn't or they designed it with blinders on.
Edmcowboy11
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Makes you wonder a bit. Personally I'd prefer the armoury to be moved. It could go on the other side of Blathford near the new overpass where they could easily access yellowhead. Then NAIT could proceed with this proposed plan.
As for the other station, a nice mixed use development with a couple residential towers of about 10 and 15 storeys respectively would be nice to see.
As for the other station, a nice mixed use development with a couple residential towers of about 10 and 15 storeys respectively would be nice to see.
fjordgard
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If you download the PDF linked on that website, it appears to be saying that they have purchased the land that the armoury is currently on and that land will become a plaza which is the "public face" of campus. Not sure if they actually bought the land or if that is just a pipe dream for them...This is my point, exactly. Not only do students and staff have to walk around the armoury, but there is no proper entrance to NAIT, either. Seems like the location was poorly chosen, imo.
Even the new campus development master plan seems to ignore the armoury. Either they know something the public (i.e. me) doesn't or they designed it with blinders on.
EdwardEdm
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The old NAIT station is been stripped of all fixtures expect for lights and the shelter structure.
Foolworm
Active Member
It seems strange that there was no ribbon cutting for the new station (or Valley Line for that matter).
EdwardEdm
Active Member
Maybe in time when the full extension if open. Frankly, what is in operation is underwhelming. They said it was a 300m extension, which it is, but that is to the north end of the platform so 100m of the extension includes the station.
The_Cat
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Gronk!
Senior Member
An old NAIT LRT Station update:
NateTheUrbanist
Active Member
With the expansion of the Metro Line LRT, to St Albert and a likely extension to the south of the line afterwards, what is the likelihood that the line gets expanded to two lines the whole way?
EdwardEdm
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I assume you're suggesting they run the Metro Line to the southern terminus of the Capital Line? They don't want to run trains more frequently than 5 minutes through University Ave. So until they do something about that, not likely.
Having said that, when the Metro Line ends up with 5 minute frequencies, having just a single track to turn back at HSS won't do. That is probably at least 10 years out.
dunno
Active Member
Which is prob how far any expansion past Blatchford is at this point at minimum.
Aaron_Lloyd
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dkazzed
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It's going to take far more than the build out of Blatchford to increase Metro Line frequencies. The trains are primarily packed with NAIT students.