Valley Line LRT | TransEd/Marigold | City of Edmonton

Good afternoon,

Thank you for your patience as we gathered further information about the upcoming 102 Avenue bike lane relocation in downtown for Valley Line West construction.
In order for LRT construction to occur on 102 Avenue, the 102 Avenue bike lanes, from 103 Street to Railtown Park Trail (110 Street), will need to be temporarily relocated to 103 Avenue. Bike lane installation on 103 Avenue is anticipated to begin on/around October 8, 2025. Installation is expected to take approximately three weeks. Once installation is complete, the 102 Avenue bike lanes will close and the 103 Avenue bike lanes will open. Please refer to the construction notice from Marigold Infrastructure Partners (MIP) for more information and maps.
  • Details:
    • The 103 Avenue bike lanes are anticipated to be in place until the end of 2027.
    • The relocated bike lanes will connect to the existing bike network and will include wayfinding signage, bike signals, medians and pavement markings.
    • To connect to the 103 Avenue bike lanes, cyclists will be able to use the existing north-south bike infrastructure along Railtown Park Trail (110 Street), 106 Street and 103 Street.
    • As part of Valley Line West, new permanent bike lanes will be built on 102 Avenue.
The City and MIP appreciate the patience of cyclists and others who will have to shift their route from 102 Avenue to 103 Avenue during Valley Line West construction in downtown.

If you have any questions or concerns, please contact LRTprojects@edmonton.ca

Sincerely,
Valley Line West Communications and External Relations Team
 
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The_Cat said:
I wonder if 103 Avenue might be a better road for bikes, given the presence of the 104 Street Market and the parks on 105-107 Street. This would free up an extra lane for 102 Avenue and pedestrian markets.
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I would agree with you if the bike line didn't need to be on 102 Ave going west through Wikhwentowin, Glenora and beyond.
 
Some other construction (no pics):
(1) Preparation of track beds at 107 Street and middle of 109 Street.
(2) Early stages of station construction at 112, 116 and 120 Street.
(3) Median largely dug out between 124 Street and Groat Road.
(4) Track beds largely complete up to 142 Street except switch tracks.
(5) 149 Street intersection paved.
(6) 156 Street median mostly done.
(7) 165 Street intersection curbs closer to pouring.
(8) 87 Avenue EB west of 189 Street paved.
(9) AHD intersection closer to being located to original intersection.
 
Well I just passed by the new west end Rec Center site and now even more than before I say ETS HAS to extend the Valley Line to this area next to the Rec Center. I can't believe the short sightedness of our city planners. Not only is there the Rec Center but at least 6 of the medium density residential buildings right across the street from the Rec Center with room for maybe two or 3 more to be built plus at least 2 more of these buildings a couple blocks away already built and also a block or so away a grocery store and a couple smaller power centers. This area just needs a train to get there and it is an automatic TOD. Instead the valley line ends about 6 to 7 blocks away with a small park n ride lot a bus terminal, and only low density housing nearby. One more stop from Lewis Estates station to the Rec Center will potentially add a ton of LRT riders living in all those residential buildings.
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I think the trouble with planning any kind of LRT is the lag between development and transit. When the LRT was extended to 23 Avenue, there wasn’t significant development south of AHD. I think it’s sometimes difficult to think 5-10 years ahead, but it’s safe to assume residential expansion will be near major nodes of employment, recreation and shopping.
 
Edmcowboy11 said:
Well I just passed by the new west end Rec Center site and now even more than before I say ETS HAS to extend the Valley Line to this area next to the Rec Center. I can't believe the short sightedness of our city planners. Not only is there the Rec Center but at least 6 of the medium density residential buildings right across the street from the Rec Center with room for maybe two or 3 more to be built plus at least 2 more of these buildings a couple blocks away already built and also a block or so away a grocery store and a couple smaller power centers. This area just needs a train to get there and it is an automatic TOD. Instead the valley line ends about 6 to 7 blocks away with a small park n ride lot a bus terminal, and only low density housing nearby. One more stop from Lewis Estates station to the Rec Center will potentially add a ton of LRT riders living in all those residential buildings.
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Pretty sure that the NEW Rec Center was approved AFTER the West Line was set.....so it would have been foolhardy to presume that a magical rec center would appear out of nowhere - yet somehow plan for it? They can do an expansion one day....we've got bigger fish to fry for LRT expansion than this...let's move on
 
The_Cat said:
I think the trouble with planning any kind of LRT is the lag between development and transit. When the LRT was extended to 23 Avenue, there wasn’t significant development south of AHD. I think it’s sometimes difficult to think 5-10 years ahead, but it’s safe to assume residential expansion will be near major nodes of employment, recreation and shopping.
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Isn't part of the idea of city planning that you don't just plop down transit and "hope" that's where development happens, but instead you create zoning and incentives to cluster development around mass transit. Lots of other cities have it figured out.

We're still stuck in the era of shoe-horning transit into existing car-dependent areas and trying to tie everything together. Vs building transit first and tying the major employment/education/health/retail hubs to the transit.
 
MacLac said:
Pretty sure that the NEW Rec Center was approved AFTER the West Line was set.....so it would have been foolhardy to presume that a magical rec center would appear out of nowhere - yet somehow plan for it? They can do an expansion one day....we've got bigger fish to fry for LRT expansion than this...let's move on
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in 2004 they released this master-plan identifying the approximate west end rec facility (pg 12-15): https://www.edmonton.ca/public-file...DF/RecFacilityMasterPlanAugust2004FullDoc.pdf

2010 the Valley Line was approved.

2014 the final lewis farms rec centre planning was finished.

So idk....seems like there was a window to coordinate some of it.
 
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