The entirety of 104th ave between 109 and 124 needs to be rebuilt into a fully urbanized main street style corridor. Remove the big box, parking in the front outlets. New main floor retail spaces, fronting the street, with residences above. On/ off street parking should be included. Calgary's University District is an example to copy (in Edmonton's case, there would be the train)
 
CplKlinger said:
The latest update on Building Edmonton came out:

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 43.4% progress (as of the end of June 2025) as measured by the Independent Certifier. The first Light Rail Vehicle manufactured by Hyundai Rotem Company is expected to be shipped from South Korea at the end of June 2025, arriving in Edmonton at the end of July.
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The actual Q2 2025 report was published today. No updated progress figure since it's the same time period, but there's new details about specific segments.
 
This seems incredibly quick, they already have asphalt down in the south side of 104ave in the section between 109 and 110st. I swear they only switched traffic from south to the north side a few weeks ago?
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cloney said:
This seems incredibly quick, they already have asphalt down in the south side of 104ave in the section between 109 and 110st. I swear they only switched traffic from south to the north side a few weeks ago? View attachment 683137
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Great pic - some of downtown Edmonton's most modern, interesting buildings, especially when business wing is done.

Hopefully that parking lot fills in with something suitable to contribute greater to this area.
 
cloney said:
This seems incredibly quick, they already have asphalt down in the south side of 104ave in the section between 109 and 110st. I swear they only switched traffic from south to the north side a few weeks ago? View attachment 683137
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PME had been working almost 24/7 in that area for the last couple of weeks. Seems like they made a big push to get it done
 
TAS said:
Great pic - some of downtown Edmonton's most modern, interesting buildings, especially when business wing is done.

Hopefully that parking lot fills in with something suitable to contribute greater to this area.
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yessir and allard hall just out of frame. Its been awesome seeing the business building go up. Between macewan, the LRT and the MUP it couldnt be a better area to be completely pedestrianized. (but not without 109st losing a few lbs)
 
In addition to the station cleaning, I observed turnout maintenance Downtown. There were some new switch points on a trailer, presumably for installation. They were doing something at the top old Connors Hill that I never did figure out what it was an.
Ultrasonic rail testing was completed on the whole line.
Some work associated with replacing curb ramps, so jackhammering out more concrete, was done as part of a group of miscellaneous projects related to fencing and curb ramp replacement that the City tendered for earlier this year.
Given that it was nearly 2 years until the first planned shutdown, that's not bad. Ottawa has seen many more in the same timeframe.
 
EdwardEdm said:
In addition to the station cleaning, I observed turnout maintenance Downtown. There were some new switch points on a trailer, presumably for installation. They were doing something at the top old Connors Hill that I never did figure out what it was an.
Ultrasonic rail testing was completed on the whole line.
Some work associated with replacing curb ramps, so jackhammering out more concrete, was done as part of a group of miscellaneous projects related to fencing and curb ramp replacement that the City tendered for earlier this year.
Given that it was nearly 2 years until the first planned shutdown, that's not bad. Ottawa has seen many more in the same timeframe.
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I don't suppose TransEd did anything about their downtown landscaping/planters along the route - like putting some plants in them.?
 
TAS said:
I don't suppose TransEd did anything about their downtown landscaping/planters along the route - like putting some plants in them.?
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I've said it before and it still holds true. Every weekday, even now in late September, that I ride the Valley Line I see crews working on landscaping. For whatever reason it seems the Downtown landscaping doesn't fall under TransEd at this point, unless there is perhaps some sort of dispute.
The landscaping Downtown has been done in past years. Given complaints of other planters that fall clearly under the City's responsibility, like LRT station entrances, that haven't been planted either this year, it seems it is more so a City problem and not a TransEd problem.
 
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