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40 Years LRT Timeline LIGHT RAIL TRANSIT IN EDMONTON 1981 2001 2004 2008 A 2.2 kilometre LRT extension to Customer service further improves The ETS Trip Planner becomes available. Innovative customer service starts up Clareview station opens. The City partners with Telus and installs public The City of Edmonton starts 311, a service that lets TTY payphones in all LRT stations. 2005 residents access information on city programs and 1983 More inclusive and customer focused services, including transit information. All riders’ needs considered 2001 The Mobility Card for persons with disabilities is The Bay and Corona LRT stations LRT gets a fresh, new look improved. A subsidized monthly transit pass for 2009 Edmonton AISH recipients becomes a regular, open up. For the first time, The new updated Clareview LRT Station opens. The Bay LRT station is re-named Bay/Enterprise accessibility features are added, ongoing program. Square and the Health Sciences LRT station is re- 1951 1961 such as elevators. 2003 named Health Sciences/Jubilee. New LRT stations The vision for a more Superintendent D.L. (Don) MacDonald submits the first 2006 open at South Campus and McKernan/Belgravia. efficient, environmentally- report to city council on the benefits of LRT. 1989 LRT is 25 years old LRT continues to grow Council accepts LRT Network Plan. friendly public transit, Edmonton’s LRT system celebrates 25 years of Grandin Station opens at the The Health Sciences LRT Station opens making the 2010 including Light Rail Transit 1960s Government Centre, near Alberta’s service. Monthly pass for seniors introduced. track 12.9 kilometres long. (LRT), begins. Edmonton’s oil prosperity brings growth Legislature. LRT reaches more Edmontonians The city grows to just under 270,000 people. LRT service to Southgate and Century Park begins. 1951 1961 1971 1981 1991 2001 2011 2018 1970s 1992 1996 2011 anniversary providing service from 2015 Clareview to Century Park and 13 More people call Edmonton home LRT moves south and across the Internet and culture meet the LRT Accessibility increases other LRT stations. A digital television The Metro Line LRT from Churchill More than 400,000 people live in river Edmontonians can now find transit The City launches its text messaging network is added to LRT stations, downtown station to Grant MacEwan Edmonton. Despite some debate and information via the Internet. The service. Riders receive schedule giving announcements about working and to NAIT starts up. Expected ridership is 13,200. Edmonton becomes the first city controversy of whether the Churchill LRT station has a sculpture, information through texts. The escalators and elevators, weather and news. in North America with fewer than LRT needed to cross the river, ‘Ridden Down’ by Alberta artist Clay Paid Park & Ride project starts at 2016 one million people to start the construction and extension to the Ellis, installed. Clareview, Belvedere, Stadium and South Campus Station is renamed construction of a Light Rail Transit University LRT station proceeds Century Park LRT parking lots. South Campus/Fort Edmonton Park Valley Line begins (LRT) line. The line is 7.2 kilometres and the LRT grows from 9.9 to 12.3 1998 Station. Construction on the first phase of the and costs $65 million. kilometres. Celebration and renewal 2012 Valley Line LRT, from downtown to Mill Aboriginal art panels are added along 2014 Woods, began in the spring. 1995 LRT’s 20th anniversary. The 1978 following year, Central LRT Station the South LRT line. On the Capital Line, between Stadium Accessibility becomes a key service and Churchill stations, the LRT carries 2017 The LRT begins in Edmonton receives a mural commemorating 20 2013 Edmonton’s first LRT system starts Accessibility becomes a big focus of years of LRT service in Edmonton. more than 15,000 passengers on Edmonton Transit System (ETS) weekdays. For the Capital Line, operation... from Belvedere to the Edmonton’s public transportation The newly updated Belvedere LRT LRT lines receive official name status publicly announces its new name, between McKernan/Belgravia and Coliseum and Stadium Stations, then system. Mobility Choices give Station starts operation. Edmonton Transit Service. The existing and future LRT lines Health Sciences stations, the most to the Churchill and Central Stations. customers different travel options. A are named - Capital Line, Metro pilot project to test accessible ramps heavily travelled section, the LRT Line, Energy Line, Valley Line and carries more than 22,000 passengers. on LRT cars begins. Festival Line. LRT celebrates its 35th .
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