The_Cat
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LRT work at 83 Street/87 Avenue: http://transedlrt.ca/updates/minor-lane-closure-83-street-at-87-avenue/
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EdwardEdm
Active Member
WOW. 2 weeks of overhead line work. I'm guessing their test runs found something, frankly no surprise to me from the other issues I've seen with the OCS construction. But, just another example of this line was not ready for a summer opening. Hell, it's probably in TransEd's best interest that it didn't open during the summer. Let's say that the piers were fine, no issue. What if now TransEd had to announce it was going to have to end service early each today to allow time to fix the overhead? Or perhaps it might have required out right shutting service down for a period and running replacement buses depending upon the problem? Right now the issue is just some minor lane closure that get hidden under the pier issue.
BASE
Active Member
Seems like there is a lot of work ongoing to finish this thing up beyond just the pier work.
Edmcowboy11
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Gronk!
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Number of Valley Line Southeast piers needing repairs jumps to 30
More piers than was first anticipated on Edmonton's Valley Line Southeast need some kind of repair work, TransEd revealed in an update Friday afternoon that did not include a new timeline for the project.
The_Cat
Senior Member
The Clash could sing about this one (Train in Vain)!
Gronk!
Senior Member
David A
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Number of Valley Line Southeast piers needing repairs jumps to 30
More piers than was first anticipated on Edmonton's Valley Line Southeast need some kind of repair work, TransEd revealed in an update Friday afternoon that did not include a new timeline for the project.edmonton.ctvnews.ca
Apparently it is 30, not 39 - here is the update
Number of Valley Line Southeast piers needing repairs jumps to 30
More piers than was first anticipated on Edmonton's Valley Line Southeast need some kind of repair work, TransEd revealed in an update Friday afternoon that did not include a new timeline for the project.
Gronk!
Senior Member
I'm surprised that they said no piers on the Tawatina Bridge were being repaired. There was one being repaired when I drove past yesterday.
Fetch
New Member
How incredibly sad it is that things like post tensioned exterior reinforcement (usually used in like older rehabilitations) are being used on brand new infrastructure. I wonder what the long term prognosis is. The design being insufficient should have been caught way before we got to this point.
BASE
Active Member
That external steel support is incredibly ugly. Is there any way the city can say no this wasn't part of the deal please do it right?
JuliallThat
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Those old steel overhead railways in New York and Chicago did always have a neat vibe. 
The_Cat
Senior Member
Having read the news story, I wonder if the piers had sufficient rebar.
_urbanite
Senior Member
So considering the known issues with the concrete on the piers for the elevated sections of the SE portion, it's reasonable to think there could be similar problems with the piers for the Tawatina bridge then right?
whatchyyc
Active Member
Not sure. The Tawatina piers are a much different design from the guideway piers