“The Edmonton Arts Council, on behalf of the City of Edmonton, is seeking artists to create canopy artwork at six Valley Line West Stops: Glenora, Grovenor/142 Street, Jasper Place, Meadowlark, Aldergrove/Belmead, and Lewis Farms, all of which are “neighbourhood” style stops. Submissions will be considered for all six stops, and a different artist or artist team will be selected to create artwork for each canopy.”
 
That seems right, you don’t really need art work at Wem, miz, or lewis farms. Hopefully it’s better than the reindeer
 
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thommyjo said:
Exactly. We have 3+ years till the trains running. So how about they time it for the current state.

Everyone please email Marigold and cc your councillor. It can change things.
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Trains are desired by MIP to be running this fall btw.

In my opinion (not representative of MIP), it'll be fully possible for the western portions of the line.
 
Barnaby said:
Trains are desired by MIP to be running this fall btw.

In my opinion (not representative of MIP), it'll be fully possible for the western portions of the line.
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Would love to see it, but I doubt any testing beyond a few short blocks is possible in 2026. The majority of the line doesn’t even have continuous track bed, let alone track in it, let alone overhead wire connected yet.

They also said the gantry crane would be finished fall 2024. They were a year off that one.

Guess we’ll see. But until trains are on 104ave (all of 124-130st is still a dirt hole, and 102ave isn’t even demolished, so I don’t see trains in this section especially anytime soon), they should fix the lights to help vehicles and pedestrians flow smoothly. I got off the #7 early yesterday cause I was so tired of the red lights and just walked down to 103ave and beat it to Churchill…
 
I'm not privy to the testing plans, but I'm expecting LRV testing to be conducted on the VLSE tracks.

I think 1-2 LRVs could be trucked to Lewis Farms OMF in order to allow for testing of the west portions of VLW.

I'll be quite surprised if Lewis Farms to Jasper place isn't operation ready by fall.
 
So I wonder if they are going to be able to do anything better with the new stations on the west line. Perhaps normal doors instead of the sliding doors that kept on being busted. Also I think there definitely has to be an improvement on security and loitering.
 
I often like to transfer to the Valley Line at Churchill to do my absurdly short hop to 102 St stop if the timing is right. This morning was bizarre, it took three green light cycles for the train to get the vertical line crossing 100 St, a brief stop at 100A St but we got the vertical line right away, then two green light cycles at 101 St.
 
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