of course if you haven't already click the subscribe button and hit the bell icon so you don't miss my future videos it helps a ton also consider joining the community discord server for great conversations about transit behind the scenes and more edmonton's existing light rail network is more of a light rail line with a branch that carried a little over a hundred thousand daily writers pre-pandemic which is a respectable number much like the systems in calgary st louis and los angeles edmonton uses high floor german style trains the system first opened in NUMBER_TOKEN as the first modern light rail system in north america and has grown reliably ever since with regular short extensions the current system consists of two lines the capital line a NUMBER_TOKEN kilometer NUMBER_TOKEN stop service from south edmonton to northeast edmonton and the metro line an NUMBER_TOKEN kilometer NUMBER_TOKEN-stop urban service from north the city center to south of the city center at the university of alberta the edmonton lrt system features a shared fully grade separated subway section from just north of churchill station to university station on the south side of the north saskatchewan river linked up by the dudley d menzies bridge this section is a big differentiator between the edmonton system and the c train in calgary which runs through the downtown core at grade and will allow for way more capacity in the future especially since edmonton's lrt system is built for NUMBER_TOKEN unit NUMBER_TOKEN meter trains which are larger than virtually any other light rail system in north america the capital line is the original lrt line in edmonton and runs in a fully dedicated right-of-way when not in the central grade separated section the northeast section of the line runs in a railway rate of way adjacent to a cn freight line akin to calgary's south lrt line with fairly substantial grade separation high speeds and wide station spacing the cell section of the line from the university of alberta largely runs in heavily separated roadside and median locations with crossing gates with the newest stations at century park and southgate providing fully grade crossing free access via pedestrian over bridges the metro line by comparison is much newer opening in NUMBER_TOKEN. this line features full interlining with the capital line north from health sciences jubilee station at the south end of the university of alberta campus up to churchill station north of churchill an underground junction box connects to metro and capitol lines the metro line turns west and emerges adjacent to the very nice new rogers place arena at mcewen station the line then continues north to kingsway mall and royal alex hospital before terminating at the northern alberta institute of technology the metro line has been dogged with issues over the years both because it initially featured a poorly suited cbtc signaling system and because the line features almost no great separation which seems to be the hallmark of what city planners called urban lrt that said this style of operation is really wacky trains don't get grade separated crossings between side median running that the capital line south has but they also don't respect the street grid like a true urban tram not exactly my idea of integrating into the urban environment this has left the section north from downtown with a number of long and convoluted
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