Construction
Construction activities on the southeast part of the Valley Line started in spring 2016.
The Edmonton Arts Council and City of Edmonton announced the 14 public artworks for the Valley Line Southeast LRT at City Hall.
The artworks are commissioned through Edmonton’s Percent for Art policy. Four Edmonton artists, three additional Alberta artists, two Indigenous artists teams and one international artist were selected.
The artworks range from intimate, community-focused glass art and sculpture at neighbourhood stops to large-scale sculpture, paintings, mosaic, and glass, at the Churchill Connector, Tawatinâ Bridge, Davies Ramp, and Davies Station.
Artworks were chosen from a total of 260 proposals by a series of selection committees comprising community members, local artist representatives, City of Edmonton and project personnel.
On Friday September 15, 2017, the Government of Alberta announced that it is providing an additional $176-million grant to the City of Edmonton for construction of the southeast leg of the Valley Line LRT.
The funding was originally provided to Edmonton in 2014 as an interest-free loan. The province is now converting this loan into a grant, with funds coming from Climate Leadership Plan revenues.
The Edmonton Arts Council commissioned Canadian Métis artist David Garneau to create artwork for the pedestrian walkway on the Tawatinâ Bridge. The artwork will have more than 400 panels, each shaped and painted to refer to Indigenous aspects of the region.
- Cloverdale Footbridge removed on December 19, 2016
- Construction began on the 102 Avenue tunnel portal in The Quarters area
- Site preparation at Davies Station and Gerry Wright Operations and Maintenance Facility (75 Street and Whitemud Drive)
TransEd Partners issued a 2016 / 2017 construction schedule, as well as a lookbook of Valley Line concept renderings.
- New storm and sanitary sewers installed on Jasper Avenue around 95 and 96 Street
- Additional utility relocations along the alignment
- Construction access roads and river berms constructed on the north and south sides of the North Saskatchewan River
- Streetscaping, medians and trees along 66 Street between Whitemud Drive and 28 Avenue were removed to create detour roadways during construction
- Trees were removed on 95 Avenue, 83 Street and 75 Street along the LRT alignment
- Geo-technical testing was conducted on Connors Road, in advance of construction of retaining walls
- Site preparation at the Gerry Wright Operations and Maintenance Facility (75 Street and Whitemud Drive)
- Cranes were installed on the river berms and the Cloverdale Footbridge was removed
- Construction of caisson piers for the elevated guideways at Davies Station and the 98 Avenue pedestrian overpass
Valley Line LRT construction officially launched on April 22 with a groundbreaking ceremony at the future Muttart Stop. Mayor Don Iveson was joined by federal Minister of Infrastructure and Communities Amarjeet Sohi, Alberta Minister of Transportation and Minister of Infrastructure Brian Mason, and representatives from Edmonton’s Indigenous communities, the Valley Line Citizen Working Groups and TransEd Partners to celebrate this exciting milestone.
