Page 36 - BEC / OCT / 2022

Millbourne Woodvale Stop + LRV on tracks
LRV moving through intersection
66 St and 34 Ave
36 OCT 2022 | BUSINESS ELITE CANADA
Gentile explains that the Valley Line LRT is built on
an entirely new principle—an urban-style LRT. This
means it has more frequent stops and smaller-scale
stops. “The trains run basically at community (traffic)
speeds and orient towards moving people from stop
to stop within the network, not outside the network.”
Given this philosophy, Edmonton will use the
transportation network as a way of building up
and densifying the city to prepare Edmonton for
an eventual population of 2 million people. “It goes
hand-in-hand with a changing view of what the
city was going to be and how it would function
and that's the critical importance of the line,”
says Gentile. “These criteria put greater value on
community environments than had been used
before.”