Page 5 - Edmonton’s Valley Line Southeast LRT

Millbourne Woodvale Stop + LRV on tracks

Chris Gentile (Valley Line Technical Manager, LRT Projects, Integrated Infrastructure Services) & Quinn Nicholson
(Discipline Lead for Communications and Public Relations)

Gentile explains that the Valley Line LRT is built on The LRT line is being built in multiple stages, with
an entirely new principle—an urban-style LRT. This this Southeast stage being built first due to the fact

means it has more frequent stops and smaller-scale that the Valley Line will need its own maintenance

stops. “The trains run basically at community (traffic) facility, says Quinn Nicholson, Discipline Lead for
speeds and orient towards moving people from stop Communications and Public Relations. “This stage

to stop within the network, not outside the network.” will have 11 street-level stops, a new bridge spanning

the North Saskatchewan River, and an interchange
LRV moving through intersection Given this philosophy, Edmonton will use the linking to the Capital Line and Metro Line.”
66 St and 34 Ave
transportation network as a way of building up

and densifying the city to prepare Edmonton for An LRT is kind of a Goldilocks happy medium
an eventual population of 2 million people. “It goes scenario in terms of building cost and ridership,

hand-in-hand with a changing view of what the says Nicholson. “Cities get the slightly lower
city was going to be and how it would function capital cost compared to an underground metro,

and that's the critical importance of the line,” but you get a higher frequency of usage and lower

says Gentile. “These criteria put greater value on maintenance and operations costs than you would
community environments than had been used with bus rapid transit.”

before.”

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