The_Cat
Senior Member
It will be difficult, but I think the city would do well with an alternative route marked along 95 or 107 Avenue
Valley Line LRT | TransEd/Marigold | City of Edmonton
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Gronk!
Senior Member
The LRT to WEM should have been built 40 YEARS AGO!!! That's how long it took a fair number of municipal, provincial and federal governments to dither over this.
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IanO
Superstar
Very much so. Straight down Jasper, across 102 with a museum stop and over to WEM. Alas.
Airboy
Senior Member
I bike but 105 ave is a mess now to. Plus 99st is still not fully open for easy riding. I have to jump onto sidewalks a few times.Bike and drop into the ravine/valley
Airboy
Senior Member
well if one council didn't stop it, the LRT would have been the full length of Jasper Ave by now.
thommyjo
Senior Member
97ave to 142street, then through glenora to 102ave is the bike route I use. It’s supper fast. 15-20mins to downtown from west of 149. Then 107ave for driving is great too. But yeah, traffic will be rough for a while. I don’t mind the bridge bottlenecks though. Encourages alternative modes.
cliffapotamus
Active Member
speaking of bike routes... 102 AVE IS FINALLY OPEN!!!!!
fences are moved over from the sidewalk, so they now just block off the tracks (where they ought to have been all winter, but i digress) so you can move laterally from sidewalk to bike lane to car lane. there's construction barriers at the ends, which look new, but access is completely clear mid-block so i figured it was open enough to use.
It's nice to get this one little bit of infra back. I just hope we get a bit of time with the new lane open and continuous with the old lane, before it turns into a construction zone too.
fences are moved over from the sidewalk, so they now just block off the tracks (where they ought to have been all winter, but i digress) so you can move laterally from sidewalk to bike lane to car lane. there's construction barriers at the ends, which look new, but access is completely clear mid-block so i figured it was open enough to use.
It's nice to get this one little bit of infra back. I just hope we get a bit of time with the new lane open and continuous with the old lane, before it turns into a construction zone too.
IanO
Superstar
Airboy
Senior Member
Train testing as well today. But lest put bets down on who catches the first driver down the bike path.
IanO
Superstar
Yup. Needs bright green paint or bollards at the beginning and end of each block.
David A
Senior Member
Yes, it looks very nice being all open, but you need something big at the ends so people don't drive there.
I have seen several people recently drive down the bike lane on 106 St and Jasper. It does have the green paint and sticks, but the problem is people are used to turning into the right most lane and it is wide enough for a vehicle.
I think people get confused and don't process the signage - especially people who are not used to driving downtown or maybe from out of town.
Aaron_Lloyd
Active Member
From this weekend, a shot of the utility building above the LRT tunnel. The wood fencing in front of those ugly ducts improves the aesthetics quite a bit, still hoping we get a lot of trees planted in front of the whole thing though.
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Platinum107
Senior Member
My new wheels 
The_Cat
Senior Member
Looks like they're doing LRT testing from Strathearn to Muttart today.
Gronk!
Senior Member
Saw one LRT train near Whitemud and another LRT station parked at the Strathearn station this afternoon. Speaking of, the Strathearn station has been partially boarded up for many months - just wondering if this will be completed soon?