North LRT - Churchill to NAIT

The City of Edmonton is building a 3.3 km LRT extension northwest from Churchill Station in downtown Edmonton to new LRT stations at Grant MacEwan University, the Royal Alexandra Hospital and NAIT. The North LRT to NAIT is expected to open to public service in 2014.

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[garycalgary]

this is LONG OVERDUE.

[squee222]

@tombstonecat To go underground would cost far more than you could find by cutting funding to other programs.

If people get hit by the train, jumping the tracks, darwin would be proud. We can't plan the city for the dumbest citizens. we can't start wrapping the city in bubble wrap. using your logic all roadways should be underground due to the danger of jaywalkers

[squee222]

@buynowpayl8ter car dependent calgary?

calgary has the highest transit users per capita in canada. Get your facts straight. Most people in calgary work dwntwn

The "train to no where" was adequate when we built it. Edmonton was much smaller at the time. We have since boomed, and are now playing catch up. Edmonton has tripled it's population in 35 years. This line will eventually extend to st albert. The East-West line from louise estates to millwoods begins construction in 2015.

[Chamath5B]

extend the LRT to leduc

[buynowpayl8ter]

Wow, a 3.3km extension! Good for you Deadmonton. After almost 20 years of a train line to nowhere. That city gets basically a spur line! It's been 33 years since this toy train opened and has a whole 15 stations on the system! Cities like Seattle, Phoenix, Denver, Vancouver and Calgary have train systems that have been around a shorter period of time, but are all much bigger! Hell, even car depended Calgary has more than twice the track and by 2012 three times the stations than Edmonton!!!

[highway2heaven91]

@thebuffalodude 2 reasons:

1. It would take too long

2. Vancouver's Sky Train is not an LRT system. It was designed to travel above ground. Most LRT systems are designed to travel in the middle of the street. They can go above or below ground but they are mostly supposed to travel on the surface and sometimes in the middle of the street.

[garycalgary]

@DavidSkrzypniak here in Calgary the lrt in the n.w. goes right past an apartment and when the blinds are open you can see right into the apartment so it could be closer. Don't hate me because I am from Calgary. I used to live in Edmonton for 2 years hahaha

[garycalgary]

@squee222 wow i hope something bad happens to you so i can stand and snicker at you like you do to other people...