Regarding the Kerby Station (the source of the road closures noted above), there will be some changes to existing LRT service before the station and the rest of the West LRT can open.
The existing 10th Street West Station, where the Northeast line train route 202 currently ends will be demolished (I've heard September), but the new station a block west (Kerby Station) will not open right away. Due to how the tracks and station currently sit at 10th Street West, the tracks and catenary (overhead power wires and poles) will need to be re-aligned and signals tied-in to the next block heading to the new West LRT line. Between the time of the old station being shut down and demolished and the new line opening up, passengers from the northeast will use 7th Street and 8th Street Stations as a terminus. The trains will then continue to where they do now and (the station platform no longer being there), operators will switch ends by using the stairs on the train cars and the train will head back to the northeast.
Things will operate like this for a few months. The new Kerby Station and West LRT will then open together.
I've also heard rumours that the line will open as originally planned in December.
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