Man, Marigold seems to be making such a better job than TransEd, at least up to this point, that it makes me wonder how much earlier we would've had the VLSE running if they had been in charge of construction of the whole line.
I was driving down the alignment of the line west of 142 st the other day and man, especially the elevated section is taking shape SO QUICKLY! I will not be shocked if we start seeing the elevated stations taking shape by springtime.
 
Glenco said:
Judging by the cost per kilometre of track for other LRT projects around the country Valley Line West is pretty good value for money.
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It does, but before we pat ourselves on the back too much, it seems to me there are at least two other important factors. First, our LRT expansion happened/was planned before some others and costs have gone up since then.

Second, our lines are mostly going through less built up, not as dense areas than in some older and larger cities, so less need for tunnels and elevated tracks, etc...
 
^What one has to do and wha one chooses to do are two different things. Ottawa is building a substantial amount of the line extension in the middle of a highway median and yet at the same time they want to build metro style stations for their low floor LRT. They want to make it a commuter system which will have little appeal of peak hours. Not good value for money. The town down south has decided to tunnel their low floor urban vehicle into a commuter system at enormous cost. In my humble opinion Edmonton has chosen the right tool for the job which makes it good value for the outlay no accident.
 
ChazYEG said:
Man, Marigold seems to be making such a better job than TransEd, at least up to this point, that it makes me wonder how much earlier we would've had the VLSE running if they had been in charge of construction of the whole line.
I was driving down the alignment of the line west of 142 st the other day and man, especially the elevated section is taking shape SO QUICKLY! I will not be shocked if we start seeing the elevated stations taking shape by springtime.
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Probably because half of Marigold’s workforce and project team have a convenient 5-6 years of previous local LRT construction experience… lol
 
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I couldn’t get very close to the actual lift. They were staging the girders on the sidewalk and were turning pedestrians away.
 
Rough day for TransEd and the Valley Line SE.
Through this morning trains were terminating at Grey Nuns due to switch issues Mill Woods.

By this afternoon for the peak hour, trains from Mill Woods were terminating at Muttart with a shuttle train running between Muttart and 102 St due to apparently an issue in the SB tunnel. I was at the Churchill Connection. There was misleading messages on the signs Downtown indicating that the NB platform was closed and SB and NB trains were using the SB platform. Problem was the shuttle train was actually on the NB track. To their credit, TransEd was making audio announcements to use the NB platform, but, with wrong messages on the signs, passengers were frequently going between both platforms, and naturally when the train actually showed up, there was then a mass rush to the platform with the train.
 
There was also a lot of confusion over whether Churchill was shut down because of what happened at City Hall.

I was wondering if VLSE issues were going to make the news (I think it was the most severe since opening) but obviously it's overshadowed now.
 
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