page_title: Bombardier Flexity Freedom
section_title: Edmonton
hierarchical_section_title: Bombardier Flexity Freedom / Orders / Edmonton
caption_attribution_description: English: The first Edmonton Valley Line Bombardier Flexity Freedom light rail vehicle (numbered 1001) on display at Bonnie Doon Mall during construction of the line.
context_page_description: The Bombardier Flexity Freedom is a low-floor, articulated light rail vehicle developed by Bombardier Transportation for the North American market. It is marketed as part of the Bombardier Flexity family which includes other models of trams and light metro vehicles. They are produced in facilities in Thunder Bay and Kingston, Ontario, which once produced rolling stock under the names of Canada Car and Foundry and Urban Transportation Development Corporation, respectively.
  The Flexity Freedom is used on the Ion rapid transit in Kitchener and Waterloo, Ontario. It is planned for use on two light rail systems under construction: Line 5 Eglinton in Toronto and the Valley Line in Edmonton.
  Being entirely low-floor, these vehicles directly compete with the Bombardier Flexity Swift, Alstom Citadis, Siemens S70, CAF Urbos, and Kinki Sharyo LRVs. However, as they are designed for light rail rather than streetcar applications, they also compete against, to a lesser extent, low-floor streetcars from Škoda/Inekon and Brookville Equipment Corporation, among others.
context_section_description: As part of a consortium that won the contract to build and operate the Edmonton LRT Valley Line in February 2016, Bombardier is providing Flexity Freedom vehicles for use on the new line, as opposed to Siemens LRVs (Siemens SD-160 and Siemens–Duewag U2) on the existing Capital and Metro Lines. Where the vehicles built for Ontario have five segments, the vehicles built for Edmonton will be longer, built of seven segments. The first car was shipped on June 27, 2018 (from Kingston, Ontario, on CN Rail) and went up for display at Bonnie Doon Shopping Centre (next to location of the future Valley Line Bonnie Doon stop) on July 27, 2018. The Edmonton LRVs have 82 seats each, 8 doors on each side, and each have a capacity of 275 people. A total of 26 trains are slated to be produced for the line, with 10 due in late 2018, 13 in 2019, and 3 in 2020 (the year before the line is scheduled to open).
caption: Vehicle 1001 showcased in Edmonton during Valley Line LRT construction
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