Valley Line LRT | TransEd/Marigold | City of Edmonton

IanO said:
Appreciate that.

I guess it is more along SPR that I see amazing opportunity and little action.
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Agree 1000%. And would also love to see a few more projects like mckernan Belgravia is getting this year pop up around 156st.

The true potential is Meadowlark Mall Redevelopment (likely way off).

Jasper Gates by Riocan (8 buildings up to 30 stories I believe was the zoning a few years back? I’d imagine this is still a decade out to even start?)

Then all of Stony Plain Road (149st to 163st). But if 124th and Whyte can barely get a few mid rises…don’t see how the worst part of our city south of 118th aside from boyle street is going to get investment (in terms of drugs, homelessness, prostitution, disinvestment).

Maclab site south of Misecordia might beat all 3 of those too.
 
Lewis farms OMF:

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1 more section to go before the gantry heads back:
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positive1 said:
I took the LRT from Coliseum to Churchill. There was zero problem. Not sure the purpose of your post. It is called a connector. There is more than one door.
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I honestly forget that door facing the square exists. I always use the Valley Line facing door.
 
positive1 said:
I took the LRT from Coliseum to Churchill. There was zero problem. Not sure the purpose of your post. It is called a connector. There is more than one door.
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the purpose was to point out the connector station used to open on the north side to the Taste of Edmonton, then it has been closed, not an efficient use of the place for taste attendees...
 
Habibfazil said:
the purpose was to point out the connector station used to open on the north side to the Taste of Edmonton, then it has been closed, not an efficient use of the place for taste attendees...
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You did say "Why do they not want any LRT riders to partake in the Taste of Edmonton?". My point was that I did take the LRT and it made zero difference - if they didn't want LRT users to take part, they were incompetent in their implementation of the plan.
However, it is a very important point you make. I suggest you contact the City or LRT operators, and they will I am sure get back to you with a good reason. You can update here with the info.
 
positive1 said:
You did say "Why do they not want any LRT riders to partake in the Taste of Edmonton?". My point was that I did take the LRT and it made zero difference - if they didn't want LRT users to take part, they were incompetent in their implementation of the plan.
However, it is a very important point you make. I suggest you contact the City or LRT operators, and they will I am sure get back to you with a good reason. You can update here with the info.
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I think it was up to Taste of Edmonton. They had two entrances I think - one on each end of their 100 St. boundary. The rest of the perimeter was fenced off from what I could tell.
 
MacLac said:
Agreed......too many access points to monitor and patrol. Less is more......
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Fair and I am sure it was a logistics/flow decision, but to close the MAIN connector seems like a very Edmonton thing to do.

You would not do that for major station entrances in other cities and work them into the plan, not out of it.
 
positive1 said:
You did say "Why do they not want any LRT riders to partake in the Taste of Edmonton?". My point was that I did take the LRT and it made zero difference - if they didn't want LRT users to take part, they were incompetent in their implementation of the plan.
However, it is a very important point you make. I suggest you contact the City or LRT operators, and they will I am sure get back to you with a good reason. You can update here with the info.
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That post was indeed correct, as both LRT/tramline riders were being denied quick/easy access via the connector despite it being open and available for at least 2 earlier days (maybe longer?)
 
Habibfazil said:
That post was indeed correct, as both LRT/tramline riders were being denied quick/easy access via the connector despite it being open and available for at least 2 earlier days (maybe longer?)
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I was going to leave this discussion alone (the maps shows a total of 5 entrances to Taste of Edmonton for what it is worth). Because the "tramline" was specifically referenced I feel a clarification is required. Half of all trains are single cars. Anyone on a single car train, or the north car of a 2 car train, are dropped off closer to the 100 St entrance than if an entrance was open through the connector. The only "tramline" riders being "denied quick/easy access via the connector" are those poor souls who ended up on the second car of half the trains.
 
EdwardEdm said:
I was going to leave this discussion alone (the maps shows a total of 5 entrances to Taste of Edmonton for what it is worth). Because the "tramline" was specifically referenced I feel a clarification is required. Half of all trains are single cars. Anyone on a single car train, or the north car of a 2 car train, are dropped off closer to the 100 St entrance than if an entrance was open through the connector. The only "tramline" riders being "denied quick/easy access via the connector" are those poor souls who ended up on the second car of half the trains.
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agreed, and those regular lrt riders who chose to use the churchill connector exit vs the city hall exit
 
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