North LRT - Churchill to NAIT

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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.

http://www.edmonton.ca/nlrt

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[garycalgary]

this is LONG OVERDUE.

[squee222]

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

[nadine caramell gamer]

edmonton is better than calgary!

[Hairee Stener]

This funny cause Calgary is getting their first Edmonton-style Subway tunnel section on their west LRT while Edmonton is getting their first "Calgary-like Streetcar style" section

[Oilerfan5]

since the south opened up, edmonton has been on par with calgary for ridership per km of track. While I wish edmonton had continued with building more lines, it's better late than never.

[squee222]

I take public transit 8 months a year. I hope they will install some heated shelters in these stations.

We don't have the money to complete the network underground... sorry... we just don't. We may not even have the money to complete the network above ground.

If we build underground it will take three times as long to build due to added cost and you won't see the network complete for 30-50 years (at which time the city will be three times the size). Our population grows is too fst to wastetime

[tombstonecat]

I was gonna reply squee222 but I won't ressurect a dead thread so I'll just comment. @squee you don't take public transit do you? In the winter all the above ground stations are freezing. University station is now twice as cold and windy than whatever the weather is like on any given day. This is a quick patch to a gaping wound. Even Calgarians told me above ground sucked. Trust me, the money invested in doing it right the first time is worth it.

[squee222]

Calgary has a far more centralized workforce than edmonton which is far more blue collar. There is train access to downtown and your university... the airport employs 14 000. the university employs 5 000. 100 000 (your number) is far greater than any single employer you mentioned.

Building more lines in calgary is a good idea. I never implied that it wasn't. I simply corrected your claim that calgary was car dependent (or moreso than any other canadian city)

[buynowpayl8ter]

Yes, Calgary, like most N. American cities is very car dependent. Also the C-train has the highest usage per capita in North America, not just Canada. The system has a daily ridership of over 250,000 people. Around 90,000 to 100,000 head downtown, not most people like you say (less than 1/10 of the population!) The indust, airport, universities, shopping centres ect. all employee far more than dwtn Calgary! That's why the city is building a forth line and planning a fifth and sixth!

[squee222]

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.

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