Edmonton Real Estate Blog

On July 7, 2010 City Council approved the alignment of the Northwest LRT Corridor, a route envisioned to serve the new and developing neighbourhoods in the North and Northwest of the City with a future potential extension into the City of St. Albert. The Northwest LRT will be an extension of the North LRT line that is currently under construction and expected to be completed in 2014.The NW LRT will be built northwest from NAIT across the City Centre Redevelopment, over Yellowhead Trail and the CN rail yard, north on 113 A Street, then west on 153 Avenue to a future park-and-ride site at the northwest city limits.After a complete series of technical studies and significant public involvement, the LRT planning team created the NW LRT Concept Plan which on May 1, 2013 was presented at a Non-Statutory Public Hearing of the Transportation Committee (TC).  The Concept Plan was approved by TC with two subsequent amendments which can be found in the meeting minutes. Both the Concept Plan and the meeting minutes are now posted on the NW LRT information page.

The Concept Plan will now go to City Council for final approval on May 8, 2013.  However, even if approved, there is currently no timeline for construction of the NW LRT extension, as it not a City LRT priority project, nor has funding been allocated to begin construction. The City of Edmonton’s priority LRT projects are completion of the North LRT to NAIT iby 2014 and preliminary engineering and design on the Southeast to West LRT by 2013.