The_Cat
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Lots of paving west of 127 Street. The section west of St. Albert Trail is getting closer to being completed.
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yeggator
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Building Edmonton website says completion of the 156th Street to St. Albert Trail section has been pushed back from August to October 
The_Cat
Senior Member
As long as it’s done before winter.
Habibfazil
Active Member
Looks better built than most tip up style buildings, I'm thinking government/city?
TAS
Senior Member
If what I read on the Yellowhead Trail freeway conversion is still accurate, it's about a $1B project and Edmonton is paying about $500 million (the other half split between feds/prov - $242million each).
Contrast that with Calgary's current Deerfoot Trail project at $615 million - and their city is paying $0. The province is covering it all. No wonder that city has money for downtown building incentives and all their other mega projects.
The province took over all costs for maintenance and future upgrades of Deerfoot in 2000 - a nice gift from Premier Ralph Klein that took those costs out of the hands of Calgary's municipal government. No luck with such a designation for Yellowhead Trail or Whitemud Drive still to this day.
Deerfoot wasn't a freeway yet in 2000 when the province took over, but with upgrades became one in 2005. For 20 plus years, Calgary hasn't had to pay for it's maintenance costs and snow removal etc while Edmonton has for Yellowhead/Whitemud - adding up to 100s of millions more in funding for Calgary versus Edmonton. So not only are we paying $500 million for Yellowhead versus $0 by Calgary for Deerfoot, we've paid $100milllions more in annual costs.
In 2016, the NDP began the process of trying to offload Deerfoot back to Calgary for ownership. However, that never happened and then there was a government change.
Edmonton is not being treated fairly. Huge cost.
Contrast that with Calgary's current Deerfoot Trail project at $615 million - and their city is paying $0. The province is covering it all. No wonder that city has money for downtown building incentives and all their other mega projects.
The province took over all costs for maintenance and future upgrades of Deerfoot in 2000 - a nice gift from Premier Ralph Klein that took those costs out of the hands of Calgary's municipal government. No luck with such a designation for Yellowhead Trail or Whitemud Drive still to this day.
Deerfoot wasn't a freeway yet in 2000 when the province took over, but with upgrades became one in 2005. For 20 plus years, Calgary hasn't had to pay for it's maintenance costs and snow removal etc while Edmonton has for Yellowhead/Whitemud - adding up to 100s of millions more in funding for Calgary versus Edmonton. So not only are we paying $500 million for Yellowhead versus $0 by Calgary for Deerfoot, we've paid $100milllions more in annual costs.
In 2016, the NDP began the process of trying to offload Deerfoot back to Calgary for ownership. However, that never happened and then there was a government change.
Edmonton is not being treated fairly. Huge cost.
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thommyjo
Senior Member
What’s the squiggly sidewalk about?
Gronk!
Senior Member
Packingtown Park, according to Google Maps.
Let's see what they plan to do with this park.
Habibfazil
Active Member
It's a nice little walk thru park that is a tribute to the former meat packing district,
They used crushed rubber tires with a concrete pathway zig/zaging between little displays with photo's and descriptive plaques.
Walkway is equipped with night time lighting along the pathway too.
Walking or biking access along fort road and the pathway beside the LRT tracks BUT don't walk thru the ETS parking lot. If you are driving, no parking, although I've never had a problem parking close to it.
Here's a few pics from May of 2022 (there are many more, and please excuse the quick and sloppy editing job)
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Out of Towner
Active Member
Looks good. Cleaned up nicely. Power plant is next.
Habibfazil
Active Member
Oh Agreed, there are more displays that what I posted, alas 'tis a bit sad about the access, as I believe they shut the gates at night
Gronk!
Senior Member
Grow some grass, plant some trees and shrubs and call it a day.
Habibfazil
Active Member
why do I think of monty python and the knights of ni???
But grass/plants/trees all need upkeep, maintenance, so they went with the crushed tires (just like around the neighbouring transit garage), easy peasy, done deal...
Out of Towner
Active Member
Perhaps the rubber could be painted green to give it the look of grass or if the rubber is fastened to the ground, some local artists could do up a mosaic. Regardless though, the eyesore is gone.
HappyJazzz
Active Member
Am I the only one who's surprised that a weed shop didn't buy this site to use for their flagship store? 
Pretty low effort as a park, even by Edmonton standards.. Can't see it getting much use.
Pretty low effort as a park, even by Edmonton standards.. Can't see it getting much use.
MacLac
Senior Member
Wait what?! You're got it all wrong. Who said anything about a "park?" Not as in "where you take your dog to run around or fly a kite or throw a frisbee. This is loose term for a park, as in a memorial to meat packing industry of the area. Btw, it's been around for at least 5 years as it was built at the same time as the new Andrews transit garage. So to me, it is a pretty unique and special "park" to have in our city.Am I the only one who's surprised that a weed shop didn't buy this site to use for their flagship store?
Pretty low effort as a park, even by Edmonton standards.. Can't see it getting much use.