W. P. Wagner School is close by to it, and I've seen a bunch of high schoolers by the station at school start and end times. Also, the area also has office parks (APEGA recently moved by the corner of 51 Ave and 86 St) that are a short bus ride away.
Guessing you're right, the land expropriation economics and desired route worked out that it was easiest to acquire both the Union Tractor and Osman Auction parcels to build out Davies station + use the whole site to build/pour the guideways, and rather than subdivide the parcels afterward to resell for development, they figured it was cost effective to pave it over as a park'n'ride. Kind of goofy but I guess it's an option for those in the SE who work dt to use.
So it’s an overflow lot for the school?
Admin said last year that the amount of vandalism is outpacing the budget to fix the stuff that gets damaged. They need a larger budget yesterday.
Seems very ambitious to have all track laid by the end of this year especially if they no longer pour track slab in the winter. I guess they could form and place rebar over the next couple of months to prepare for the warmer months but seems like a stretch. Maybe that cool form work traveller will be able to speed up the process.
I feel like increasing the funding does nothing other than waste money, I’d rather spend it on 1 guard / more surveillance to stop the people who keep breaking the glass.
According to Chief Bylaw Officer David Jones, during the March 19, 2025 debate about funding 30 additional TPOs:
Well one of the passengers now is myself from Davies as I live in Millwoods and it's a very quick short drive to Park at the park and ride and ride all the way to Rogers Place. I've also noticed at the hockey games that's more people have been starting to take the train, this last game the other day versus Nashville the train was pretty packed on the way home after the game. I think there's actually a lot of people that will start using the train as soon as they take the time to discover it. It seems almost every trip I overhear one person or another trying to figure out where to get off because this is the first time they've taken the train. I do hope that's more businesses or stuff gets built around Davies but I do think that things are progressing maybe a bit slower than we still would hope but at least they are progressing and more and more people are discovering the Valley Line and Davies
The only actual solution is cutting off the drug supply by properly imprisoning anyone involved with narcotics, and actual jail for criminals. The leniency of our court system is what allows this. A very small number of people cause the vast majority of disorder in our city. If those 200-300 people were all in prison for 15+ years, we’d see incredible improvements.
Why has no one ever suggested this before?! We could have had this problem solved ages ago!
Do you have a source for these stats? Otherwise, that is some serious conjecture, not to mention that disorder is a very broad concept. Given the size of Edmonton, 200-300 people seems remarkably low, as most petty crime goes unreported. Generally, 1-3% of the population commits violent crime, while higher proportions commit petty crime. Our prison system doesn't have the capacity to house that many people long-term, assuming justice reform were to enable longer prison terms. Given that we won't even commit to building more hospital capacity as a society, I doubt there would be much appetite to increase prison capacity that much, along with the associated operating costs.