The_Cat
Senior Member
This will be the start of the work on 102 Avenue.
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CplKlinger
Senior Member
Latest Update:
Marigold Infrastructure Partners (MIP) and the City have developed a plan to accelerate roadwork and trackwork in key areas in 2025. This work will result in significant traffic restrictions, but will reduce the overall duration of traffic impacts by more than half. The accelerated plan will also get many of the roads into their final configuration by the end of 2025. Work also continues at many other sites along the alignment, including at stops and stations, the Lewis Farms storage facility, Gerry Wright operations and maintenance facility, and the elevated guideway along 87 Avenue. MIP has achieved 37.4% progress (as of the end of March 2025) as measured by the Independent Certifier.From the Building Edmonton website.
The_Cat
Senior Member
There are about three other Marigold updates.
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thommyjo
Senior Member
Still only 37….
Barnaby
Senior Member
Atleast the trains will arrive this fall.
J_gordo
Active Member
Yeah but compared to last years 16% (21% y/y growth) I think they’re in a good spot. Should be close to 50% if not over by the end of the year. And keep in mind Q1 usually the slowest construction quarter. Q2,3,4 are the construction heavy months.
Yegpeople
New Member
No information is being provided by city about that ? Where will they be stored and who is operating this line ? Any info on that
J_gordo
Active Member
Stored in the facility B. It’s enclosed and has track laid in it. No information directly on whose operating but my guess is transdev as they operate the south line. Already have assets and personal here, would be lowest cost and smart logistic wise. Plus they seem to be doing a good job so far.
EdwardEdm
Active Member
I know it's probably just a typo, but to be clear, TransEd* operates the VLSE. Transdev being an actual company that does operate public transit world wide, but not to anywhere in the Edmonton area.
*Specifically Alstom is the operator within the TransEd consortium after it Alstom acquired Bombardier.
J_gordo
Active Member
ChazYEG
Senior Member
With how they're doing the closures for Spring and Summer, I feel like we'll likely be well over 50% by the end of the year. I would bet on 50-55% for sure.
SMayo
Active Member
I walk across the construction every day for work and almost daily there is visible progress, so it still is complete guess work to say that they could be at 50-55% by the end of the season, but the speed of work this season compared to last is noticeably faster and that doesn’t seem like an unreasonable end point.
ChazYEG
Senior Member
I will be able to better form an opinion in a couple of weeks, but from what I have seen here, and photos that friends send me, the progress is noticeably faster than it had been so far. another 17.5% over the rest of the year sounds fairly realistic, especially if they keep it up, or even ramp up throughout the year, as it was the case in the past years. I am still banking on a mid-2028 opening for this lol
thommyjo
Senior Member
One hope I have is that the accelerated constructions makes us reconsider future projects. Imagine if we spent the first 2 summers getting everything done that’s been done up to now. Instead of 3 full years of slow progress. Lots of sections saw 0 work for months of end while having restrained capacity.
Foolworm
Active Member
Encouraging!