Valley Line LRT | TransEd/Marigold | City of Edmonton

thommyjo said:
It’ll take 20 years for the LRTs to really get there. That’s why TOD is so key. When those hubs get built up around stations, the line is more valuable.

Many Edmontonians have their dentist, barber, friends, daycares, restaurants, etc all spread out across the city or at least a “quadrant”. Whereas in places like Vancouver, more of my friends there live “along the skytrain” and have many of their local service/retail/leisure locations at stops along the train (if not walkable in their community already).

Projects like west block help though, and obviously all the big employment hubs of malls, hospitals, and unis are the biggest generators.

Transit is also cost prohibitive though vs a car if you don’t use it frequently and already own/insure a vehicle. That’s my biggest barrier to using more. Makes way more sense to drive (even with paid parking often) or to bike.
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Since South Valley has opened, I have slowly made the lrt more and more a part of our life. Soon there will be a superstore (no frills! on the line too. In Mill woods. When west opens you will have a city market, the groc store at jasper gates and the T&T in west ed.

LRT stands to totally remake Jasper Place.
 
Not sure if this is used elsewhere in Toronto, but I scanned my credit card directly for the Union Pearson Express which was great. It will be good for occasional users here too when we get it.
 
The_Cat said:
Vancouver has the Waterfront and only one other major downtown stop (Burrard)
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And Granville and Vancouver City Centre.

David A said:
Yes, years ago I went on a trip to Vancouver with a friend who wanted to stay close to UBC because he had friends there. It was very eye opening how challenging it was to go there and also go downtown. We are not perfect, but Edmonton's Universities are well located and have good LRT access already, which will be even better soon. Vancouver not so much.
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Yea the direct 44 bus is oddly not that frequent. The 99 is by far the busiest route to/from UBC.

realkevbo said:
I disagree, there are 5 major stops
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Stadium-Chinatown is a bit of an outlier, like Corona meets MacEwan. It's on the outskirts of downtown and doesn't serve as many places of employment, but about a million of the boardings each year is probably due to Canucks/Lions/Whitecaps games and other events at Rogers Arena and BC Place.
 
I noticed today that these homes are gone and the land is up for sale for medium density. Should be another TOD close to the Grovenor stop (west block)

Btw, no changes on the west block apartment we are waiting to see started north of the current.

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Edmcowboy11 said:
So could we have open sidewalks actually sooner than later?
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I thought they would be, but I double checked the December 3 line-wide notice about upcoming changes, and realized that the work area shading covers the whole roadway, not just the west side they'll be moving to. Perhaps that was an oversight, but maybe they'll actually be closing both sides. There should be a site-specific notice before anything changes though, which will have more details.
 
Seamusmuldrew said:
Having used that drive through a few times, people will most certainly find a way. One of the busiest yet most efficient I’ve ever seen
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Yes, it will be a hassle but it is their only drive through in the area. If it was a slow location, this could hurt it, but it is far from that.
 
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