Valley Line LRT | TransEd/Marigold | City of Edmonton

At least there are road allowances (e.g., 111 Street) to allow for LRT. Most of the past LRT construction has been in older residential neighborhoods, with the relocation and installation of utilities.
 
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thommyjo said:
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.
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The City planned Heritage Valley Towne Centre with LRT in mind. There are thousands of apartment units already constructed, and easily another thousand under construction right now within walking distance. You can't blame the City that the Province killed the south hospital. However now that the project is dead Heritage Valley will have a massive doughnut of nothing that a future LRT line will have to go past to get to Town Centre and beyond to Desrochers.
 
thommyjo said:
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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I wonder if the whole Valley Line is approved (around 2010), that it would be difficult to make modifications later on, given the bids.
 
The_Cat said:
I wonder if the whole Valley Line is approved (around 2010), that it would be difficult to make modifications later on, given the bids.
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I think the frustration is knowing you want 1) a west end LRT, 2) a west end Rec centre 3) some medium density housing, 4) commercial, 5) high schools…. Why not try to set aside land and collaborate the planning of each of these together? The ideas were discussed for years before any final designs or funding. It’s just poor planning .

The most Edmonton thing you can do…

For reference, terwillegar rec Centre, 2 massive high schools, and a bus terminal were all planned years before this and coordinated to be together. Not the most urban in their design. But at least relatively close.
 
The toughest part of the LRT planning (or other transportation planning) is that residential and commercial development may explode after completion. I’m guessing that Summerside, Ellerslie and Windermere have added 100,000 residents, the Meadows and.Maple 20,000 and Edgemont-Lewis Estates 50,000.

Edmonton will need schools, fire halls, transit and other public infrastructure. At least LRT will encourage renewal in more central parts of the city.
 
I'm not sure how easy it would be to change order a Lewis Farms Rec Centre expansion at this point especially considering the IPD nature of the project. Seems like an important town centre to serve not far away from the originally planned terminus.
 
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