Valley Line LRT/ Valley Line West | ?m | ?s | City of Edmonton
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Kaizen
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^ dang, that could have been nice...
JuliallThat
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Let's just build that concept literally as-is. A little 70s throwback brutalist revival let's go
archited
Senior Member
except for the freestanding parking structure -- needs to go underground... it is a large lot and the parking revenue could be substantial at event times. As Katz did with downtown ICE district parking, an underground lot that handles enough parking for the towers AND an additional 1000 cars could serve in multiple directions. Parking could be minimal for the towers (maybe averaging 0.5 cars per unit, allowing for adjacency to LRT); parking otherwise could support events and provide collector parking for LRT with convenient access to all quarters of the City. Parking alone could be a significant profit centre for a developer. The towers are close enough to downtown to be sustainable and would add to the node on the other side of the LRT tracks that seems to be blossoming. Also a hotel as part of a development here would work and be an excellent generator for retail and hospitality that could end up servicing the developing area as whole.
David A
Senior Member
Yeah, but it sounds like they are not the ones that need the help.
A lot of the negativity here would go away if the politicians and the other people running this gong show had the courage to come out with a realistic deadline and stick to it.
Instead they are spineless incompetent dummies.
Seamusmuldrew
Active Member
I’m entertained by the notion that they put a pedestrian overpass for the convenience of transit users rather than to get them out of the way of the 6-lane expressway that lies between the stadium and the stationI’m not surprised. And on May 27 2023 while on Edmonton LRT trainto CFL Edmonton Elks football
game vs Winnipeg Blue Bombers I overheard 2 Edmonton football fans talking about how Calgary built their LRT system/ park & ride lots way better than Edmonton & I do agree with them.
As on Monday May 22,I went down to the Calgary Stampeders Football
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whatchyyc
Active Member
As long as a large parking structure is included whether it be above or underground it probably won't ever happen. Same case down here, the "need" to replace the surface P&R capacity with a parkade makes it so expensive that it just never gets built
Seamusmuldrew
Active Member
Can see Tawatinâ bridge all the way from Kaffa cafe (88 Av, second floor above redbike), trains zipping over every 5 mins each way. If I didn't know better I'd think the slope above the tunnel entrance was burnt or something, in my dream world that'd all be wildflowers
Avenuer
Senior Member
The City owns it and the lot is highly contaminated with pollutants, which has been the main reason why it has not been developed and sold yet.
JuliallThat
Active Member
How did it end up contaminated? What was there before?
yeggator
Active Member
An old rail yard and presumably some industrial land uses.
EdwardEdm
Active Member
A railway yard no, industrial yes. It looks like a good portion of the site in 1965 was a lumber company of some sort. Not sure if it was related to Muttatt's or not, who as far as I know was on the other side of the tracks and further south.
Avenuer
Senior Member
Originally that lot was where Rat Creek used to run west from the modern day Kinnaird Ravine along the alignment of Norwood Boulevard. The creek and ravine was filled in during the 1920s and 30s, which included the area where Commonwealth Stadium and the parking lot are now, conceivably with dirty fill. Back then, it could’ve easily been trash that they just through into the ravine to fill it.
EdwardEdm
Active Member
Indeed, it was used as a dump. The building I thought might have been a lumber yard, according to this text might have been a brick company.
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citymuseumedmonton.ca
On topic, no trains out today yet. Maintenance crews blowing out flangeways Downtown. Perhaps a maintenance blitz day. I thought we might have been into the simulated service period, but perhaps not if they didn't send trains out today.
Kaizen
Senior Member
This past Thursday afternoon, Tawatinâ Bridge was active
(as was the beach)
(as was the beach)