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frinkprof · 07-11-2011, 08:04 PM

Couple news and notes items.

Construction at Canyon Meadows Station has commenced for 4-car extension work. A closure here won't be needed, and the work should actually be fairly quick. The station and existing platform is 10 years old and there were footings set during the original construction where the extended platform will be.

Construction is ongoing at Whitehorn Station, but it is on the station head building itself, since the platform is done. It is scheduled to be open at the end of August. Construction at Southland Station should be wrapping up soon if it hasn't already. Construction at Brentwood Station started up in June. There will be no closure at Brentwood either.

Erlton/Stampede will likely start up after this year's Stampede, with Anderson, Sunnyside and Chinook stations the next ones on tap, not necessarily in that order. As previously discussed, a closure of Chinook Station will be needed to complete the platform extension work.

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This is actually old news, but I think it missed getting posted here at the time.

In May, Council voted to allocate some of the Green TRIP (Province of Alberta grant) funds, $200M toward the purchase of 50 new LRVs, which will primarily be used to systematically replace the oldest and/or least reliable of the old U2 LRVs. Not sure what the timeline is, because it would depend on the outlay of the Green TRIP funds as determined by the Province.

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frinkprof First Line Centre Join Date: Dec 2009 Exp:	Couple news and notes items. Construction at Canyon Meadows Station has commenced for 4-car extension work. A closure here won't be needed, and the work should actually be fairly quick. The station and existing platform is 10 years old and there were footings set during the original construction where the extended platform will be. Construction is ongoing at Whitehorn Station, but it is on the station head building itself, since the platform is done. It is scheduled to be open at the end of August. Construction at Southland Station should be wrapping up soon if it hasn't already. Construction at Brentwood Station started up in June. There will be no closure at Brentwood either. Erlton/Stampede will likely start up after this year's Stampede, with Anderson, Sunnyside and Chinook stations the next ones on tap, not necessarily in that order. As previously discussed, a closure of Chinook Station will be needed to complete the platform extension work. ---------------- This is actually old news, but I think it missed getting posted here at the time. In May, Council voted to allocate some of the Green TRIP (Province of Alberta grant) funds, $200M toward the purchase of 50 new LRVs, which will primarily be used to systematically replace the oldest and/or least reliable of the old U2 LRVs. Not sure what the timeline is, because it would depend on the outlay of the Green TRIP funds as determined by the Province. Last edited by frinkprof; 07-11-2011 at 08:07 PM.