This video should have been released in November 2023, meaning it is delayed, just like how the Valley Line was delayed as well
@morethantransitt3 ай бұрын
This comment deserves the pin!
@domomot40253 ай бұрын
maybe it was intentionally delayed to portray how delayed the opening was? 👀
@fraserfuite88163 ай бұрын
I am sad to have left this, the city of my birth, just as it's getting awesomer. I am deeply excited to visit all this soon.
@stickynorth3 ай бұрын
Well Edmonton is now the fastest growing city in Canada over the last 10 years and second in North America only to Orlando according to the last stat I saw... Growing 23% for Orlando and 22% for Edmonton over that timeframe... It still has major flaws like crap traffic but obviously more rapid transit helps especially when the WEM connection happens... About 40 years overdue...
@morethantransitt3 ай бұрын
Hope you'll have a good time when you visit!
@stickynorth3 ай бұрын
Even with its faults and flaws, I am glad they finally opened the Valley Line LRT. I personally would love to see a revival of the original Edmonton Radial Railway lines because at its peak in the 1920's it had 90+ KM of lines with a city population of around 58,000 people... And that's I guess what's in the newest vision document for Edmonton Rapid Transit... Some sort of commuter rail/express line to the airport from downtown via a new crossing near the Lower Level Bridge, up Scona Road possibly in a tunnel then crossing over to the CP ROW near Whyte Ave... And of course a revival of streetcars along critical major avenues like 118, which I fully approve of!
@morethantransitt3 ай бұрын
I'd highly appreciate an LRT line running down Whyte Ave. This corridor is an obvious gem for transit! Also, all the cities with streetcars need to make their returns to streetcars one day!
@domomot40254 ай бұрын
We need another Transit Exploration episode!
@morethantransitt3 ай бұрын
Hang in there!
@1206-octo4 ай бұрын
If you noticed he actually used the same background music as the previous video about the two other Edmonton LRT lines! Anyways: bumping the engagement here cuz I wanna see another Transit Exploration!
@morethantransitt4 ай бұрын
Actually I only used 2/5 songs tho, but good catch!
@jasperli3 ай бұрын
1:54 Bombardier Flexity* Freedom
@morethantransitt3 ай бұрын
Ah I mispronounced that! Thank you!
@ClassyWhale4 ай бұрын
Wonderful summary and tour! Very excited to see what's happening in Edmonton, and I'm impressed they kept those flexities running with all that snow. But just so you know, the thumbnail is inaccurate - Seattle /literally today/ opened North America's newest light rail, the 2 Line!
@morethantransitt4 ай бұрын
Ah congratulations Seattle! And yes I made this thumbnail almost a month ago, so I will definitely edit it!
@stickynorth3 ай бұрын
Hope to see a video from you on Edmonton and Calgary soon too! Love your channel!
@mariasun17892 ай бұрын
Hey! I really enjoy your in depth commentary regarding PT in Edmonton. Subscribed as I’m fellow enjoyer of walkable city architectural approach. Moved to Edmonton from Europe so I’m not familiar how PT works here. I’ve noticed you have some kind of app that shows buses schedules. Can you share the name of it, please?
@morethantransitt2 ай бұрын
The app is called Transit App!
@mariasun17892 ай бұрын
@@morethantransitt Perfect, thank you!
@Lamefoureyes4 ай бұрын
Commenting for the algorithm!
@morethantransitt4 ай бұрын
Yay yay thanks for the bump!!
@spartancanuck3 ай бұрын
Apparently the "Muht tart" pronunciation is correct the the "mewt tart" is a common local corruption of the namesake.
@morethantransitt3 ай бұрын
I was corrected when I went to the conservatory. The staff said it's "Mutt-tart" or "Mud-tart" so I assume the station would be pronounced the same way too!
@spartancanuck3 ай бұрын
@@morethantransitt The flat, inflectionless tone of the LRT voice doesn't exactly help matters. Just got to the potion about The Quarters (which is my stop). With regards to our Chinatown, it was originally focussed at the corner of 97 Street and Jasper, a bit to the west of the station. But in the 1960s and 1970s, there were a lot of attempts to "fix" it with the bulldozer because of too much poverty and things that attract poverty. Canada Place sits on top of what was once the focus of Chinatown. Some portion of it displaced east into Boyle Street (The Quarters), and some portion of it displaced north into McCauley. Boyle Street Chinatown initially held on because it still had some of the original Chinese-owned businesses and community (on account that some of original Chinatown spilled east of 97 and Jasper). So, various Chinese cultural and seniors facilities were built there. But Chinatown North became the focus of migration in the terminal 1970s to 1980s during the post Vietnam War refugee settlement wave (bringing a mix of various Vietnamese and also more ethnic Chinese from SE Asia to the area). And Boyle Street (The Quarters) got another 40 years of the bulldozer and largely turned into shitty surface level parking lots owned by real estate speculators. Meanwhile, a lot of the Chinese, Vietnamese and other East Asian populations have migrated away from the core to suburbia. There's still some Chinatown left here, but it's definitely not what it's used to be.
@morethantransitt3 ай бұрын
Fascinating! It's so sad to see the decline and neglect towards Chinatown, both the North part and the South part!
@spartancanuck3 ай бұрын
@@morethantransitt Chinatown North does manage a certain vibrance, even if it looks shabby in places. It managed to move into a bunch of ex railroad industrial land and that created opportunities. But over time it's become not so much strictly the focus of the Chinese community, it's become a focus of them alongside Vietnamese, Korean Philippine, Salvadoran, Laotian, and Somali and other diasporas. But, despite being a highly productive neighbourhood, it's been treated for decades as somewhere for suburbanites to drive through on their way to downtown. It gets to be clogged with traffic, but almost none of it stops there. Periodically, some cosmetic bandaid is applied, but not much is really given back for what is taken. Still, it persists.
@Papa-ur3ju3 ай бұрын
14:26 Or ☠️Station.
@nose106204 ай бұрын
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@aadd743 ай бұрын
LRT. Is. Not. A. StreetCar. A streetcar runs in mixed traffic. Any proper decisions will have LRT running on its own Right of Way. While you can run a train in mixed traffic that is an extremely poor decision.
@1206-octo3 ай бұрын
Streetcar is a form of light rail. While the Valley Line here is running with the traffic at some segments, it still has its own right of way. I think the major difference between them would just be streetcar running in mixed traffic, while low-floor LRT has more priorities and separation.
@aadd743 ай бұрын
Crossing traffic (used to be a gate coming down, but now it's done with light signals) is NOT running with traffic. It has its own right of way which traffic does not enter unless it has a light. Would you say a freight train runs in traffic? No you would not. The valley line is not a streetcar because it does not run in traffic. Yes you can do pretty much anything with a train/LRT *car*. Yes you can run it in mixed traffic like a streetcar, which is a horrible decision, and makes it a streetcar. Or you can run in in its own right of way (not in mixed traffic), which is a much better way, what the Valley Line does, and what makes it a LRT. Its own right of way is a LRT because streetcar is entirely different. Saying everything done with a LRT is a streetcar is frankly wrong. Would you say Clareview to Century Park and the entire underground section is a streetcar? No you would not.
@HELLH0WND2 ай бұрын
Tom8to / Tom@to. It's a streetcar.
@aadd742 ай бұрын
@@HELLH0WND In the same way that a Metro Line or a Subway is a streetcar.
@ibrahimm2012Ай бұрын
We have the cargo train tracks parallel to yellow head why not put a lrt on that track
@HELLH0WND2 ай бұрын
It's pronounced Moo-tart.
@dxd31544 ай бұрын
the future "every edmonton lrt video" won't just be 2 hours or less, it might take you 3 hours now!
@morethantransitt3 ай бұрын
It might use a different route for the LRTs too! But we need the video to bump up first!
@amo_res92662 ай бұрын
The door sound is honestly too loud
@morethantransitt2 ай бұрын
Yeah, but it gets the job done!
@justaguy68623 ай бұрын
The Valley Line is too slow. Might as well take the car to the concert...
@1206-octo3 ай бұрын
I mean it's still easier to take the train than finding parking spots around Rogers Place. Those oilers games were crazy
@Rick-C-117Ай бұрын
After a few beers at the concert I celebrate the completion of this project.
@claytonbaker5858Ай бұрын
Ad= thumbs down.. nub
@Papa-ur3ju3 ай бұрын
I stoped riding it, I can not handle smelling meth all time, plue 73 use to take similar time to reach downtown, now I take 523, why a ground level train which took precious car lanes.
@stickynorth3 ай бұрын
Nobody cares... Bye!
@1206-octo3 ай бұрын
*stopped
@Papa-ur3ju3 ай бұрын
Fun fact after 2 decade Edmonton transit has same numbers of commuter even though population has increased rapidlly, because Cars are better and always will be.
@stickynorth3 ай бұрын
Not even remotely true. Troll elsewhere, CHUD!
@Papa-ur3ju3 ай бұрын
@@stickynorthImagine using transit in -45☠️.
@andrewolf98653 ай бұрын
@@Papa-ur3ju Just wait until what diesel owners need to do in -45 weather. Hope your vehicle doesn't get stolen overnight
@Papa-ur3ju3 ай бұрын
@@andrewolf9865 Do not worry dump poor with astma
@andrewolf98653 ай бұрын
@@Papa-ur3ju LMFAO in that weather you can't turn off a diesel because it won't start again in such low temperatures