The Edmonton Transit Service Advisory Board has finally updated its website (it hasn't been consistent recently) and posted the ETS November branch highlight report.
Valley Line Southeast LRT ridership continues to grow month over month since the opening of the 13-kilometre LRT line in November 2023. Monthly ridership on the Valley Line Southeast LRT grew from approximately 138,000 in November 2023 (excluding opening day) to nearly 297,000 in November 2024. The LRT line currently represents 5% of total bus and LRT ridership in Edmonton.
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edit: Corrected to November report
 
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I emailed with the chair about the inconsistent reporting/minutes/agenda online and she told me the person who did it so consistently a year ago left and they've struggled to keep their pages up to date since then.
 
BrettB said:
I emailed with the chair about the inconsistent reporting/minutes/agenda online and she told me the person who did it so consistently a year ago left and they've struggled to keep their pages up to date since then.
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Thanks for reaching out to them, it's been bugging me for some long now. Did they send you copies of the missing documents?
 
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Rest of the wem girders are up, lots of substructure work going on as well
 
Close it up, work 24 (maybe 12-14) and get er done.
andrewknack.ca

Short Term Pain for Long Term Gain? — Andrew Knack

Road construction is exhausting. That’s not a revolutionary statement but I bring it up because I’m hearing from more and more people about the ongoing road construction every year. This is particularly relevant because we don’t just have the regular road construction, we have that combined with al
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It sometimes wonder why some roads can’t be closed for LRT construction. 95 Avenue was closed for a summer. I think 156 Street could be closed with buses detouring to 163 Street for the months of May-August.
 
The_Cat said:
It sometimes wonder why some roads can’t be closed for LRT construction. 95 Avenue was closed for a summer. I think 156 Street could be closed with buses detouring to 163 Street for the months of May-August.
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163st and 95ave are both having major projects done as part of arterial and neighbourhood renewals starting in 2025.

So idk what the solution is for the LRT. But more stuff is getting closed. Not to mention 102ave/Wellington bridge.

No easy way out.
 
IanO said:
Close it up, work 24 (maybe 12-14) and get er done.
andrewknack.ca

Short Term Pain for Long Term Gain? — Andrew Knack

Road construction is exhausting. That’s not a revolutionary statement but I bring it up because I’m hearing from more and more people about the ongoing road construction every year. This is particularly relevant because we don’t just have the regular road construction, we have that combined with al
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This article has to be a parody right?

A Sunday, and he’s complaining that no one was working? Construction workers already work 6 days a week, usually 10-12 hours per day from May to October. Why would they be working on a Sunday? Not surprised Knack, a public shrill, has no idea about this since all he’s done is work in city hall.

“Road construction is the easiest”, sure, but road construction happens after utility relocation, duct bank work, abandonments, setting forms, catch basins etc. it’s not merely paving and pouring concrete.

I don’t mind 24/7 work, but who knows if MIP / other contractors want to pay for all the overtime? Might be cheaper for them to pay the late penalties than all the OT. Just my two cents
 
Work hours outside of the 9-5 are certainly becoming more common and more attractive for some; for Councillor Knacks proposal to happen this cannot be OT money.
 
IanO said:
Work hours outside of the 9-5 are certainly becoming more common and more attractive for some; for Councillor Knacks proposal to happen this cannot be OT money.
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It would be OT money. Labour is very thin, and I believe you know this. I think closing the roads just gets cars out of the way. This needs to happen with major projects.
 
IanO said:
Work hours outside of the 9-5 are certainly becoming more common and more attractive for some; for Councillor Knacks proposal to happen this cannot be OT money.
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Okay then it’s capped at 40 hours (M-F) 7-3. So you’ll need 3 shifts total just for the weekdays. Good luck with that
 
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