Valley Line LRT | TransEd/Marigold | City of Edmonton

[David A]

while it’s nice to see the cars - even if it is just for testing - the lack of any meaningful activity on the street or in any of the retail spaces at 11:00 am on a weekday is shockingly depressing…View attachment 445705View attachment 445706View attachment 445707

Busier on the pedway level now, as often the case when the weather is colder. Of course, with few stores in the mall now most people just quickly go by.

What would help more than testing the trains, would be if there were actual transit users on them. Hopefully we will get there ... eventually. Sigh.

 

[The_Cat]

I think Global News said that TransEd will have an announcement tomorrow morning.

 

[thommyjo]

Listening to announcement:
- They are ready for full testing DT to millwoods in January.
- most of the work remaining is cleaning up
-scaffolding will remain while talks with city about aesthetics happen (I’d imagine some of this might be legal?)
-No mention of opening date…but maybe this summer isn’t a pipe dream?

 

[Friendmonton]

Given how close they were in the summer, I'm guessing a Spring, March/April opening. Still lots of little work to do that's been hidden by the pier issue.

 

[Avenuer]

while it’s nice to see the cars - even if it is just for testing - the lack of any meaningful activity on the street or in any of the retail spaces at 11:00 am on a weekday is shockingly depressing…

Shouldn't be that surprising considering there is no reason to walk along 102 Avenue unless you are walking to 100 St, 101 St, 102 St or beyond. There are no destinations really along those two blocks of LRT right now to visit.

 

[CplKlinger]

Valley Line back on track after repairs to cracked piers

Nearly all of the cracked Valley Line LRT piers have been repaired, the company building the project announced Tuesday.

edmontonjournal.com

 

[BASE]

Valley Line back on track after repairs to cracked piers

Nearly all of the cracked Valley Line LRT piers have been repaired, the company building the project announced Tuesday.

edmontonjournal.com

Interesting he acknowledges they considered tearing down and rebuilding elevated sections. I still don't get this design aesthetic thing, admittedly I don't have the creativity trait required, but don't see a path to them making it look all that great. Does seem promising for an opening within a couple months though.

 

[TAS]

Based on what was learned a few months ago, this is good news overall. But hopefully we are looking at early spring to open.

 

[God]

Idk I don’t like the concrete look of it. Seems bland. Looks worse after the whole repair situation. After it opens they’ll probably have a graffiti problem. What if they got a bunch of graffiti artists and paid them to spray the thing and cover it with graffiti. It would look unique and cool imo. I’d prefer it over the grey.

 

[The_Cat]

I think that frequent inspections of the piers will be a must.

 

[The_Cat]

 

[occidentalcapital]

Mr. Joncas looking much happier to give this announcement.

Let's get this thing open.

 

[Edmcowboy11]

Very good news. I will be cautiously optimistic that we may see this go into service sooner than later.

 

[MacLac]

Caisson driller and very large construction site set up next to the Gerry Wright facility. We figure out what it is again? Is it an OMF facility? Or is G.Wright already have that privilege?

 

[cliffapotamus]

Caisson driller and very large construction site set up next to the Gerry Wright facility. We figure out what it is again? Is it an OMF facility? Or is G.Wright already have that privilege?

Valley Line West includes an expansion to the existing Gerry Wright facility, which was built to accommodate expansion. Gerry Wright will be the main OMF for the whole Valley Line, with the facility out at Lewis Farms being for light maintenance and storage. I think the idea behind the phasing was that when the VLSE was awarded in 2016, there was no timeline or construction budget for VLW, so they chose to only build enough of an OMF to support the VLSE initially. here's Marigold's (rather sparse) page on that part of the project.