Gronk!
Senior Member
102 Ave is supposed to be pedestrian-only. So yeah, that driver is a jackass.
Valley Line LRT | TransEd/Marigold | City of Edmonton
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David A
Senior Member
I am getting the feeling they are not being completely forthcoming about the extent of the concrete problems, which seem to be more than just the pillars.
One would hope they will eventually run out of things to repair, but it sort of seems like they are repairing everything now.
Avenuer
Senior Member
I saw someone with a rental car do that on Monday around 11 AM, they must've thought it was like Toronto where the street car tracks are within the driving lanes lol
northlands
Senior Member
I don’t think they’ve been honest about the state of the concrete on this project for the past four years.
Seriously. Can we get a good investigative journalist on this?
BASE
Active Member
^ I bet that would be a juicy story for sure.
My biggest fear is not actually the delays thus far but if the line needs to be shut down after it opens which would be incredibly disruptive.
My biggest fear is not actually the delays thus far but if the line needs to be shut down after it opens which would be incredibly disruptive.
Not many of those left. Death of local print journalism will do that.
Stevey_G
Active Member
Everyone should be writing their local MLA and councillor on the matter and applying political pressure for an independent inspection of the line top to bottom.
occidentalcapital
Senior Member
Presumably engineers are overseeing this. They can't just say everything is fine unless it actually is. Or they could lose their license or face other sanctions.
Like being forced to ride this train.
I kid. If this is signed off on, I have complete faith in this being safe to ride. These kinds of issues cause accelerated deterioration, not sudden collapse.
David A
Senior Member
With all the large project delays, the city should be doing an audit, an investigation or a public inquiry into why these problems keep happening - or maybe all of these.
Something is clearly not right or working properly.
The_Cat
Senior Member
EdwardEdm
Active Member
They've been dicking around with that cabinet for the better part of the last 6 months or so. It's one of the cabinets which I believe they can control track switches as well as traction power from.
kcantor
Senior Member
do you mean it’s probably safe to ride this year, just maybe not next year?
Stevey_G
Active Member
There’s all sorts of little games that happen in construction projects big and small and unless engineers are grossly negligent with evidence of it, the games can continue.
Source: my civil inspection background.
Glenco
Senior Member
Never ever hire Bechtel to engineer a project in Alberta again might be a solution. As I mentioned before in the mid sixties they designed the first oil sands plant but forgot to heat trace the process lines so the first winter it froze. Brilliant.