North end of that station? The south end where bus connections are made, there is certainly a validator right near the ramp onto the platform as can be seen here...

My non-professional opinion is the same. You have the rails gauged before the concrete is even poured. I strongly believe that TransEd had to bring in that milling machine because the rail wasn't quite properly gauged at locations on the SE line. This was track laying near Grey Nuns. While...

Well that's interesting. They're doing embedded track with the rail in place when they pour the concrete, as opposed to the method used on the VLSE where they poured the concrete, left a trough, and then installed the rail in the trough, securing it in place with an elastomeric grout. That...

Have you tap the card/ phone you paid with on a handheld validator, just like they do with an Arc card.

Theoretically. I live a few minutes walk from a station and the value of my property went down with the last assessment. Ok, sure a lot goes into the City determining property values, but was shocked to see it go down. It went down enough that it offset the tax increase.

The MUP in the northeast runs from 95 St to 66 St. From 66 St to Clareview the ROW is narrower (only 1 set of CN track vs formerly 4 or more between 95 St and 66 St) and it is still in use. Fort Road parallels the ROW a block or so away.

Do you have a source for that? The report to Council on the WEM Transit Centre building was expecting construction within 10-15 years, which in 2015 would have meant construction by 2030, and would have meant funding in place before that. Right now that timeline is right on. "The current...

Elaborating more on WEM: Originally planned as a rebuild in 2014 for the 2015-2018 Capital Budget cycle, but while approved, it was only on the condition that admin had to come back with other options in light of future LRT in 2015. Admin came back recommending saving $1.4 million by...

It might serve Edmonton, but it's bringing people to spend money in Leduc County, or supplying workers to jobs in Leduc County which boosts the local economy. Additionally, Leduc Transit only provides service during peak hours. With the Leduc route 10 Leduc riders can pretty much reach Edmonton...

https://edmontonjournal.com/news/local-news/edmonton-explores-sign-and-signal-changes-on-valley-line-lrt-for-safety Similar information as the CBC link above, but also some coverage of the broken shelter door problem, and recent removal of doors.

For posterities sake I went and dug up the relevant details from the VLSE and VLW Project Agreements. VLSE- Called for TransEd to do a Hazard Analysis of each grade crossing in accordance with the Safety and Security Certification Program and Good Industry Practice and to provide "automatic...

There are federal standards that determine how much times gates have to be active before the arrival of a train, but I don't believe they would apply for Valley Line. Again, as I noted earlier we have once example in Edmonton where a gates operates this way, but for a bus only road. I do believe...

This set up is actually used at Southgate for the buses exiting from Southgate on the southside. Not exactly the same thing, but the gates are always down protecting the tracks, except when the buses have a green light. Granted, they aren't lit up at all in fact. No flashing red lights, just the...

As far as I know TransEd isn't unionized. I believe ATU was able to get On Demand unionized however.

Advocacy, not advisory.

Came across this rather nicely done page on Edmonton's Siemens fleet: https://www.mobility.siemens.com/us/en/portfolio/references/innovative-light-rail-vehicles-making-transformative-change-in-edmonton.html Their note of the U2's interior refurbishment is a bit off. It was much more than an...

I don't think I would call it a mainline. I meant to respond to another posting where someone called the CN line into Downtown Edmonton something like a "heavy freight line". It wasn't. As much as I would LOVE to learn more about the history of the actual operations into and out of City Yard, my...

Kinki Sharyo also comes to mind. Not sure is Hitachi is still doing LRV's, but they acquired AnsaldoBreda who had built cars for more recently Los Angeles, but also for San Francisco and the MBTA to replace their Boeing's. Well, I guess replacing Boeing LRV's isn't terribly recent now, that was...

Right now ETS runs at peak 16 Capital Line trains x 4 cars for 64 cars and 5 Metro Line trains X3 for 15 cars for a total of 79 cars out of the 94 car fleet. That means ETS is running with a spare ratio of about 16%. This is pretty good considering the age of the U2 fleet. Increasing the Metro...

APC= Automatic Passenger Counter APC is agnostic to the fare media used. There are sensors above doors on the Flexity's, and on buses they are seperate modules at the top of the doors. They are standard now and are included on all new buses. I believe all XD's, Vicinity's, and Proterra's have...