The 55 has been on detour via 122 St when westbound, although, I thought that detour was ending. The 31 does use Fox Drive/ Whitemud when southbound.

Not according to: https://www.edmonton.ca/sites/default/files/public-files/assets/RoadsTraffic/R-R-R_ValleyLinePA_Schedule16_PaymentMechanism.pdf?cb=1692340258 They should be getting monthly payments seemingly based upon project completion, which, has been somewhat stagnant for the last year or...

Didn't see a single LRV moving south of Whitemud today. I guess they ran a car for a trip or two to take a photo so they could claim they were back to testing. Granted, I did see TransEd crews doing something along the RoW south of the Whitemud which could explain why there were no trains. I...

Original plan was south of Whitemud once the line opened, as I mentioned last week in a post as well. https://edmontonjournal.com/news/local-news/edmontons-valley-line-lrt-needs-cable-replacements-no-opening-date-set "Cables south of Whitemud Drive to Mill Woods will be swapped out after the...

The bridge back ups are more so to do with Metro line trains turning back at HSS. Prior to the Metro line operating to HSS trains would only ever back up onto the bridge if there were late trains and/ or heavy loads slowing trains at University.

Who says there's no signal priority? This is such a persistent myth. It might be implied by phrases like "runs with traffic" that there isn't signal priority, but, you can bet your ass there is. And it's covered in the project agreement. This link should work...

They didn't. They started up north and then they have on and off been working south of the Whitemud. The amount of work I have seen in Mill Woods doesn't seem to be the same amount as up north. Maybe less issues in Mill Woods? They previously spent a lot of time in Mill Woods on other cable...

Why? You're basically proposing to extend the 505 through a very lightly developed area. There are other much better places to spend money on Transit. A better use of money would be to expand On Demand to the industrial areas north of the Whitemud and south of 76 Ave, or at least a portion of...

Additionally, when you consider riders per kilometer or per capita, we easily surpass Seattle, San Diego, and Atlanta.

Except that BRT is planned along Whyte Ave and LRT seems to all but dead in that corridor.

Re: 73 speculation. The 73 exists as is for the Fall board period, but, 73 shifts are not a part of the main sign up. Rather, 73 shifts are being signed during what are know as small signups. This allows them to cancel the route at almost anytime rather than having to wait until the Winter...

Once paper tickets are eliminated, I would expect ticket validator locations would receive Arc card readers. If they had co-located the validators with card readers, extra wiring would have been needed, which would have cost extra and would only end up being used for a few years when both fare...

Various crews along 66 St last night. Possibly TransEd, certainly Western Pacific Enterprises. They seemed to be stationed at every manhole from just north of 28 Ave to at least just south of 34 Ave, but, I also heard a report that they were at 34 Ave. In particular, the manholes at 28 Ave and...

Why does anyone need to fall on their swords? From my observations, it seems like a lot of due diligence went into selecting a P3 contractor. Granted, I can't say much about which ever group evaluated the proposals, however, we had the LRT Goverence Committee involved, along with a Fairness...

A 3rd track in the Downtown core would be priceless at the height of the peak hour if you have a disabled train and need somewhere to put it.

It theoretically does already. The majority of the intersections with the VLSE include signal preemption for the trains. There are a few locations where trains so not get signal preemption. There's a lot of location in the VLSE Agreement on the City's website. Certainly, I have seen signal...

What an interesting 18 hours or so. It all started for me last night, after only spotting a single train all weekend. At least 1 was better than none as on the previous weekends. I found TransEd crews north and south of 28 Ave. I was going by on the bus so I didn't have long to observe, but, I...

Nothing on the south side on Sunday as well. Not sure about further north. I assume nothing though, like last weekend.

Depends upon how their pay is structured. Generally ETS drivers make the same regardless if it is weekdays, weekends, nights, early morning etc. I can only imagine TransEd would be similar, therefore no OT on weekends unless it's a holiday.

Given nothing ran all weekend, I don't think we're into the late stages yet.