Giving Edmonton a Transit Makeover
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- Опубликовано: 5 июл 2024
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Edmonton is growing fast, and the city has the bones for a true urban paradise - but what does its transit system need to do to stack up, not just with big Canadian cities, but with the best around the world? I talk about a plan for just that in my latest video!
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As an Edmontonian, I have never heard so many nice things said about our transit system.
When Reece pulls out the transit crayons you know it’s gonna be a banger
Edmonton excites me as its one of the few cities in canada (imo) thats actually trying to both implement more public transit and do something about the housing crisis, few cities seem to be willing to implement the drastic zoning reforms and invest in the necessary infrastructure for it
As someone who uses Edmonton transit almost every day, there are certainly days where i want to rip my hair out but we definitely have a good base to build off of. I hope one day this city can live up to its potential with transit, it would be amazing
As an Edmontonion, I’m happy to see some more attention brought to our rail system. It’s far from perfect but we have a good base and I’m excited for the future.
Ideas has never been Edmonton's problem. Enacting on plans is the part we suck at. Especially in a timely manner...
"Sometime between now and the heat death of the universe..." Brilliant, I'm going to be making good use of that at work.
Edmonton has a lot of potential. It's unfortunate that the province has set all municipalities in the province on the road for budgetary shortfalls and failure. A healthy relationship between the two groups would be ideal, but the province is outright antagonistic and is practicing austerity when it isn't necessary. Edmonton, Calgary and every municipality needs funding which the province has almost completely withdrawn.
The biggest problem with Edmonton transit is safety
Best update for the 747- have the first run of the day arrive BEFORE the first morning shift for staff instead of ten minutes after.
I really love that Bonny Doon -> West Edmonton Mall line. Whyte Ave is a hugely popular area, and that line could probably make the Zoo actually reasonable to get to for people without access to a vehicle. This, the airport connection, and the southern Metro line extension are easily my favourite additions to the network
Edmonton really needs that Whyte Ave to WEM line built yesterday. So much east-west traffic with not-very-good bus routes that could be massively improved by a system with priority over vehicular traffic...
Some of the corridors you mentioned for rapid bus routes are actually already used for crosstown bus routes, like the 51 (Castle Downs to Westmount segment), 52 (Westmount to Wem segment), 55 (Wem to Meadows along Whitemud via Southgate), and 56 (Meadows to Mill Woods segment). These are great routes for getting across the city in my experience, but the problem my encounter with them is that they often have half hour frequencies outside of peak hours, and also stop everywhere along the route. I think these should be supplemented by frequent limited stop express services that would greatly reduce travel time, something like what the 43 and now R4 are to the 41 in Vancouver.
Great video. I do feel like Windermere and Terwillegar were ignored for the most part though. Those are probably the largest growing areas in the city and Ellerslie Road's poor planning is absolutely facing the consequences of that mass expansion right now.
There are a lot of similarities between Edmonton and the Tyne and Wear Metro in the UK. Both started in the 1970s using existing rail lines connected to a new central tunnel, with German-based rolling stock. Both later faced financial problems being able to extend the tunnel to useful destinations (west Newcastle - still not connected, and south Edmonton). And both later had planners who wanted to turn it into urban LRT, rather than see it as the subway it is (the 2002 Project Orpheus would have made much of the TW Metro street running, but was never implemented - while Edmonton got all the problematic street running when it finally extended south and especially on the NAIT extension).
Excellent Reece. I had a year working on the Edmonton system a decade ago and I really like the city.
Not going underground at the hospital on 111 ave was idiotic planning & approval.
Wow, I remember growing up in Edmonton (1975-2000) and St. Albert was basically a whole different city... now it's barely a suburb, and soon will be nothing more than a neighborhood inside Edmonton.
The VIA rail station out in the middle of nowhere would greatly benefit from a connection to mass transit.