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Where are all the poeple??

Very little foot traffic for 100,000 people compared to Europe, despite not looking problematic. And no bike infrastructure at all; the (even fewer) cyclists use the empty sidewalks…

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Thanks for covering Edmonton when other creators are ignoring our city.

6:38 Correction, the 302 currently terminates at South Health Campus, NOT douglas glen. Otherwise good video! I'm a transit fan myself and like to keep up with the changes and new routee.

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It’s called Mobi (pronounced Mo-Bee) use to be owned by Shaw now Roger’s and the fleet is moving towards electric assist bikes. Oddly enough the city is also finally looking into letting LIME Uber into the area as cities in Metro like Richmond and the Tri Cities have the system in place but, Surrey has BIRD Canada. Unlike Toronto or other cities due to the nature of Metro being 21 municipalities and cities working together we have multiple systems around different cities. Come back to Vancouver soon and check out the Canada Line and ride a Lime scooter around Richmond or take the EXPO Line to Surrey and ride around the intensive segregated bike highways/Hydropaths around the city of Surrey!

Are you planning on coming back to Vancouver to ride our mass transit agency TransLink? I’ve seen you’ve done Calgary, Edmonton and so on but have yet to see any other videos of Vancouver. Regardless please come by and visit the city again and ride the lovely trolleybuses or take a ride on a double decker or even visit the mountains then head to the beach and finish in downtown all on one system!

all station names should be one word, not twin names. btw south campus/ft edmt park is nowhere near ft edmt pk.

It's pronounced Moo-tart.

I I personally can't wait for this extension to be completed, more transit alternatives to driving the better

"A developed country is not where the poor can afford a car, it's where the rich also take public transit."

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?

ETS is hot garbage.

It cost more money to elevate a train line.

2:35 the scrambled crosswalk: it would only be a good idea if they are timed perfectly with when the train is stopping at the station, as this will reduce the time spent on stopping for traffic and more time spent at the station!

anything brt in calgary is kind of just not. you can take any other bus in calgary and you will wait the same amount of time, the service will be about the same, sometimes you'll get the longer buses on the max, but i've also gotten just standard buses. it's really just infrastructure and not much else.

The door sound is honestly too loud

The big yellow machine sitting atop the viaduct is called a gantry crane. :)

Obesity crisis

There is a TON of utilities that need to be moved in order to build something like this, that’s why there is so much prep work prior to building the stops and lines

Maybe the Valley Line MacEwan stop should be named MacEwan West since it's located on the west end of the university campus, while the Metro Line station could be MacEwan East since it's located right next to the east end of campus

The crane is called a gantry crane

Great video as always! Edmonton really needs to close the existing underground downtown high floor LRT loop by infilling the Railtown and MacEwan University stations as well as like you mentioned, rename the existing Macewan Station to ICE District especially since to the north will be the second phase of the venture with almost a dozen high rise residential towers marketed as ICE District North. Ironically, if you research the story back long enough was in the late 70's going to be a downtown mega development called "Downtown North" which was later pitched in the 2000's as a skyscraper apartment district known as "Aurora: City of Light" and an LRT station of some sort was always planned for the site however when Rogers Place was built it really over-loaded what was meant to be a very small quiet station... If I could suggest anything? That would be to add a second Northern platform open on game days like the Stadium station was redesigned to add capacity for large events by closing the overcrowded tunnel and adding a larger, wider standing area at grade instead...

8:38 construction vehicles have huge blindspots (operators may also have hearing protection, further lowering perception) and can kill or maim at any speed

This segment of the line is going to be amazing. While there are obvious downsides to being a streetcar instead of an actual LRT or Metro, the upside is that the line runs through the areas of the city with the most potential for transit orientated development. If you follow the alignment on google maps, you'll see that 80% of the areas that it runs through are grid-based streets, which definitely isn't an accident. Compare this to Ottawa's O-Train, Calgary's C-Train, or even the old Capital line in Edmonton. They all, for the most part, run alongside or through huge Stroads, Highways, and industrial areas with very lackluster potential for transit orientated development and walkability.

The progress in Edmonton is very impressive. I hope you continue to cover the new LRT

You should apply for a job with Calgary Tourism.

We hope you got permission from the City of Calgary City Hall for these videos. 🤔 Good summary. 😊 You did missed some points only Calgarians know. Check them out. 😊🚐🚎🚌

ETS IS FUCKING GARBAGE!!!!!!!

The card validator was for an older presold ticket book where the tickets were printed on a poster board, inserting the cardboard ticket into the validator would stamp the ticket with the location, time and date as well as punch out a notch. The notch was because originally multi-ride tickets were also sold so each validation would be a separate line on the punched card. Yes, it was very old school, no scanning involved but that was the latest in the early 79's and 80's. You can still purchase the prepaid tickets at convenience stores in packs of ten but each card are single ride only though I believe they do forever tickets instead of set fare prices now. Calgarians are basically ROTFL when you tried to punch your paper receipt thinking it was a scanner...

The original Blue Arrow program (a precursor to a BRT program) to evaluate the market for the first LRT line now known as the red line, included an on demand minibus service using Flxible minibuses serving six bedroom communities out of Heritage and Southland stations. The passengers would call a dispatch number with their address and destination and a minibus would pick them up in ten minutes. This was to avoid having to increase the scheduled routes to those neighborhoods just to properly evaluate LRT demand. I feel that in keeping with this concept, select neighborhoods could have autonomous vehicles serving as a form of PRT service as feeders to the LRT/BRT services as basically a manual version was used in the pilot program which justified the LRT in the first place...

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Thanks for your videos! A few observations to share: • Summer tends to be a lighter season for Calgary Transit ridership, with more users geared to destinations/events - Stampede, CFL football, some festivals, Bowness Park on weekends. You'll even see riders use buses as a multi-modal option when going upstream before/after recreational floating down the Bow River. (They bring their deflated rafts on the bus!) • The airport bus no longer charges a special rate at YYC. It now accepts a standard fare there. • Max Orange continues to blossom, with the introduction of high-frequency daytime service on weekdays in Fall 2023, with a respectable 20-minute service in the evening. • Introduction of a Primary Transit Network is expected in Fall 2024.

The Valley Line is too slow. Might as well take the car to the concert...

If they biked to school & home again, 10 minutes each way, that would be 20 minutes right there. They need safe independent transit infrastructure. Less chauffeuring.

2:09 As a calgarian who doesn't have a car and needs to use transit, i can tell you that i have never seen more than 5 people on max teal.

2:42 Let me explain the ticket validator, so you can buy a ticket book with 10 tickets and they need to be given to a bus driver or put in the validator, if you put a ticket from the ticket book in to the validator, it will give you a paper ticket like the one you just got.

just booked a round trip yeg to yyc for 2.50$... thank you venture capitalists

Ha! Spending $9M on MORE feasibility studies without building anything is hardly progress... Those UCP scum baggers have been tangling fast trains between Edmonton and Calgary since I was born... Either sh*t or get off the pot!

I look forward to Calgary extending the Red Line of the C-Train to YYC itself, so you can hop on light rail directly there instead of taking a bus to the nearest LRT station.

Finally! The Albertans can escape

Red arrow already did this.

Nice video!

1:54 Bombardier Flexity* Freedom

This video should have been released in November 2023, meaning it is delayed, just like how the Valley Line was delayed as well

Apparently the "Muht tart" pronunciation is correct the the "mewt tart" is a common local corruption of the namesake.

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!