THE WAY WE MOVE LRT FOR EVERYONE 2 LRT for Everyone LRT FOR EVERYONE Light rail is about more than transit; it’s about transforming Edmonton. As the city grows, so do its transportation needs. LRT is an investment in Edmonton’s future: the development of a modern, globally competitive city with a transportation system that meets the needs of a diverse, dynamic and growing population. LRT is reliable, accessible and frequent. LRT is a preferred choice that gets people where they need to go. THE WAY WE MOVE The Way We Move is the City’s 30-year transportation master plan to help Edmonton: GO GROW THRIVE Create sustainable transportation Accommodate a growing city by Develop a city that is economically, options, such as public transit, that providing transportation alternatives socially and environmentally make getting around reliable and designed and built for generations of sustainable with an integrated accessible. Edmontonians. transportation system that creates links throughout the city. High-Floor light rail vehicles are used on Low-Floor light rail vehicles adopt a more Edmonton’s existing LRT system and will be urban style that does not require a station used on future extensions of the Capital and with a raised platform but only a raised curb. Metro lines. Low-Floor vehicles will be used on the Valley Line LRT. 3 LRT NETWORK PLAN AND PROJECTS Edmonton’s LRT Network Plan is a • most tracks at street level. LRT in Edmonton will always have long-term vision to expand the City’s • stations built closer together. dedicated right-of-way but the Valley LRT to five lines by 2040. Expansion Line LRT will have some reduced some connections between of the LRT network involves changes • requirements for crossing arms, different LRT lines, especially at from the existing suburban-style lights, bells, gates and barriers: Churchill Station. system to a more urban style, Extensions of Edmonton’s reduced speeds through residential • regardless of high-floor or low-floor • existing LRT system will pre-empt areas. vehicles. Changes include: traffic. LRT has priority at every intersection and requires standard bells, lights, gates, etc. • The Valley Line LRT will have traffic priority. Sometimes LRVs will stop at red lights, with fewer bells, lights, gates, etc. The Valley Line LRT will communicate with light signals at some intersections to maximize efficiency of traffic flow and LRT. LRT SYSTEM MAP Existing LRT Line Route approved by City Council Corridor for Future Study PROJECT Corridor Alignment Preliminary Detailed Construction Service STAGES Definition Definition Engineering Engineering Complete Opening Metro Line (Between Downtown & NAIT) ✔ ✔ ✔ ✔ 2014 2015 Capital Line (Between Century Park & Ellerslie ✔ ✔ ✔ Road) Capital Line (Between Clareview & Gorman) ✔ ✔ ✔ Valley Line (Between Downtown & Mill Woods) ✔ ✔ ✔ Valley Line (Between Downtown & Lewis Farms) ✔ ✔ ✔ Metro Line (Between NAIT & Northwest ✔ ✔ Edmonton) Central Area Circulator TBD TBD East LRT (Between Downtown & Sherwood TBD TBD Park) Edmonton’s Existing LRT 4 LRT for Everyone CLAREVIEW PARK & RIDE CAPITAL LINE LRT FACILITY N BELVEDERE PARK & RIDE FACILITY CAPITAL LINE COLISEUM Capital LRT Line HISTORY PARK & RIDE STADIUM FACILITY 1978 Edmonton opens its new LRT NORTH SASKATCHEWAN line for the Commonwealth Games. RIVER The line runs between Belvedere Station to Central Station. JASPER AVENUE CHURCHILL GRANDIN/ 1981 Clareview Station opens. GOVERNMENT CENTRAL CENTRE BAY/ENTERPRISE SQUARE CORONA 1983 Bay and Corona stations open. UNIVERSITY 1989 Grandin/Government Centre HEALTH SCIENCES/JUBILEE Station opens. MCKERNAN/BELGRAVIA 1992 University Station opens. It SOUTH CAMPUS/ includes a North Saskatchewan River FORT EDMONTON PARK bridge crossing. 2006 Health Sciences Station opens. SOUTHGATE T 2009 McKernan/Belgravia and South E E Campus/Fort Edmonton Park stations R T S open. 1 1 1 TEMPORARY 2010 Southgate and Century Park CENTURY PARK PARK & RIDE stations open. FACILITY FAST FACTS • 21 km long. • Operates at a maximum speed of 70 km/hr. • Frequency: peak-hour service • 15 stations. every five minutes, 10 – 15 minutes • Integrates with buses (transit • Trains run between 5 a.m. and off-peak. centres), cyclists (shared-use 1:45 a.m. • Capacity: 9,600 people per hour per paths), pedestrians (downtown • Fully accessible to people with direction using four-car trains on pedway and sidewalks) and mobility challenges. five-minute service. motorists (park-and-ride). • Ridership: 98,144 boardings per • Park-and-ride available at weekday. Clareview, Belvedere, Stadium and Century Park stations. 5 METRO LINE • Street-level, except for 700 m tunnel between Churchill and MacEwan METRO LINE LRT FINANCING stations. • Cost: $655 million (includes land • Shared-use path parallel to the LRT. purchases and 20 new LRVs). • Service opening in 2015. • Financing from three orders of government: City of Edmonton, Government of Alberta and STATIONS Government of Canada. MacEwan • Surrounded by an outdoor plaza, landscaped green space and FAST FACTS intersecting pedestrian walkways. • 3.3 km extension from Churchill Station to NAIT Station. • New downtown connection to LRT network. • Will ultimately operate between NAIT Station and Health Catalyst for Downtown North Edge • Sciences Station. development. Expected ridership: 13,200 Convenient access to MacEwan • • additional weekday boardings University and Rogers Place. with capacity for growth with Kingsway/Royal Alexandra Hospital extension to St. Albert. Easy access to Royal Alexandra • Travel time between NAIT and Hospital and Kingsway Mall. • Downtown: 9 minutes. Transit centre, opened in 2014, will • Passengers can change trains help create a major transit hub for • downtown to travel northeast northwest Edmonton. to Clareview Station or south to Northern Alberta Institute of Century Park Station. Technology (NAIT) • Easy access to NAIT and Kingsway Mall. • Adjacent to Blatchford redevelopment. METRO LINE LRT TO ST. ALBERT METRO LINE TO ST. ALBERT The Metro Line LRT to city limits is currently in the concept planning phase. The extension is an integral part of the transit-oriented community planned for the Blatchford redevelopment. It will travel across Blatchford and over Yellowhead Trail towards a future park-and-ride at the northwest city limits. 6 LRT for Everyone VALLEY LINE LRT N Existing LRT SE-W LRT MILLBOURNE FAST FACTS • The Valley Line LRT is Edmonton’s • Funding has been secured for the • Approximately 100,000 daily next LRT priority and is expected first phase from all three orders of boardings expected. to be completed in phases starting government: the City of Edmonton, • Will have 25 street-level stops and with the southeast portion of the Government of Alberta and the three elevated stations at Wagner, the line. Government of Canada. the Misericordia Hospital and West • Construction on the first phase • Will feature new operations and Edmonton Mall. between Downtown and Mill Woods maintenance facility on southeast • Passengers will be able to transfer is expected to begin in 2016 and be portion. to the existing LRT at Churchill complete by the end of 2020. • Will travel 27 km between Mill Station. Woods Town Centre and the Lewis • Preliminary engineering was Farms Transit Centre. completed in late 2013. 7 Multi-level view of current underground Churchill Station with future Valley Line Churchill stop at street level. WHY IS LRT FOR HOW LRT IS FOR EVERYONE • Increases the availability, reliability, speed and comfort EVERYONE? of travel. As Edmonton grows our transportation needs are • Links communities and frees people from dependence outpacing infrastructure capacity. LRT provides a proven, on single-occupant vehicles. high-quality, high-capacity, efficient and environmentally- Reduces citizen costs for gas and vehicle maintenance. friendly means to move people. • • Environmentally friendly and sustainable. 8 LRT for Everyone TRANSPORTATION: FROM ROADS TO RAILS 660 people (based on existing LRT system design guidelines) =10 people = 600 cars (based on 1.1 person per vehicle occupancy during peak periods) = 10 cars = One 4-car train FOR FURTHER INFORMATION OR TO COMMENT, PLEASE CONTACT: LRT Projects Information Line LRT Projects Website 780.496.4874 www.edmonton.ca/lrtprojects LRT Projects Email Edmonton Transit [email protected] www.takeets.com.