[Edmcowboy11]

Correct me if I'm wrong but I think the armoury has historical protection.

I don't think so. I've been in there and it is as far as I can tell a facility built in the past 10 to 20 years. Very modern.

 

[cliffapotamus]

@Gronk! I bet you're thinking of the Prince of Wales Armoury further south, Next to Vic and the RAH, currently used as the CoE archives. the Armoury near NAIT is a new building, in active use by the military. different places.

 

[The_Cat]

LRT simulator:

 

[Gronk!]

My renaming of LRT stations along the Metro Line expansion

 

[Cumberland]

slight quibble

There is no 'h' in Carlton.
(And I'd be fine with whatever you call my local stop. As long as it gets built sometime before I croak). lol

 

[David A]

My renaming of LRT stations along the Metro Line expansion

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Oh what a concept - using the names of neighbourhoods the line goes through, like Rosslyn and Griesbach. Far too logical for whomever in the city comes up with these things.

 

[Windermere]

On that note:

Originally, the proposed name for the station was the 76 Avenue Station; however both the Belgravia Community League and the McKernan Community League wanted the name to reflect their communities. After much discussion by the McKernan Community League Historian, Ed Stover, City Council voted to change the name to McKernan/Belgravia in October 2006.

McKernan/Belgravia station - Wikipedia

en.wikipedia.org

 

[roe_]

Oh what a concept - using the names of neighbourhoods the line goes through, like Rosslyn and Griesbach. Far too logical for whomever in the city comes up with these things.

What seems to be forgotten is the fact that some of the people in those neighbourhoods might also want to go to Fort Edmonton. The stop names really should be Rosslyn-Fort Edmonton and Griesbach-Fort Edmonton.

Rookie mistake.

 

[CplKlinger]

What seems to be forgotten is the fact that some of the people in those neighbourhoods might also want to go to Fort Edmonton. The stop names really should be Rosslyn-Fort Edmonton and Griesbach-Fort Edmonton.

Rookie mistake.

And don't forget our premier entertainment district's station: Fort Edmonton on Ice!

 

[Edmcowboy11]

Taken December 29, 2021

Future NAIT station taken from Kingsway mall parking lot.

 

[The_Cat]

Edmonton's new 15-year mass transit plan reneges on long-awaited northwest LRT extension

A long-awaited LRT expansion to Edmonton's northwest isn't recommended in the city's new mass transit plan to serve a population of 1.25-million people within the next 15 years.

edmontonjournal.com

 

[The_Cat]

I think the northwest area of Edmonton has not seen growth like the far south of Edmonton. While there is a business case for building out northwest and to St. Albert, I think a collaborative proposal with Edmonton and St. Albert would drive the NW expansion forward. North Edmonton would do well with express/BRT bus service. Here's a map of the proposed transit network.

https://pub-edmonton.escribemeetings.com/filestream.ashx?DocumentId=128734

 

[TAS]

Will the Blatchford station, the one further north of the two in the area currently under construction, be the quietest station in the entire LRT network for the next 20+ years? Or will it be a transit centre for buses in the northwest and St. Albert?

 

[soupcrate]

I can see the Blatchford station, the one further north of the two in the area currently under construction, being the quietest station in the entire LRT network for the next 20+ years.

Definitely. If Council does decide to push the northwest expansion behind south and it ends up having trouble getting funded, there will be a lot of folks complaining about the "train to nowhere", which I think will hurt sentiment towards both the LRT and Blatchford.

With the northwest expansion you could atleast say it's only for a while as we expand the train up to existing populated communities.

 

[The_Cat]

One possibility for the Blatchford station could be bus links to Spruce Grove and possibly Sherwood Park/Bremner.