Valley Line West LRT

Rank 2025

32

Image Credit: City of Edmonton

Industry Sector: Transit

Project Type: LRT

Project Value: $2.63 billion

Funding Source: Public

Federal Funding: $948.56 million

Provincial Funding: $1.04 billion

Municipal Funding: $637 million

Province: Alberta

City / Region: Edmonton

Estimated End Date of Substantial Completion: 2028

The Valley Line West LRT project is the next phase of Edmonton’s light rail transit expansion. This project represents a 14-kilometre extension from downtown Edmonton to Lewis Farms in west Edmonton. The low-floor, community-integrated, urban-style LRT will help move more people along key corridors as Edmonton grows into a city of two million over the coming decades. In 2024, work continued on two new bridges. The Anthony Henday Drive LRT bridge will connect West Edmonton to Lewis Farms, and other bridge will cross Groat Road at Stony Plain Road. Light rail vehicles (LRVs) will share the Stony Plain Road Bridge with motorists, pedestrians and cyclists. The new bridge over Anthony Henday Drive will be dedicated solely to Valley Line LRVs.

Project Owner: City of Edmonton

Engineer: Owner’s Engineer: connectEd Transit Partnership: AECOM (owner); Hatch; Mott MacDonald; DIALOG; ISL Engineering and Land Services; SMA Consulting; reVerb Communications; Hanscomb; Associated Engineering (consulting)

P3 Team Members/Project Team: DB(F) Team: Marigold Infrastructure Partners—Colas, Parsons, Standard General, Francl Architecture, Fast & Epp, Stantec

Other Key Players: EY (financial advisor); Aon, INTECH (risk advisor); Golder (WSP) (geotechnical studies); Stantec, A.W. Hooker Associates Ltd. (independent certifier); CIMA+; Northstar Consultancy; INFRATA; Wood (WSP) (geotechnical studies/materials tester); Englobe; McElhanney (site surveyor); Turner & Townsend; Montrose Environmental (environmental specialists); AGAT Labs

Road or Transit Length (km): 14

2024 Rank: 31

2023 Rank: 28

2022 Rank: 30

2021 Rank: 26

2020 Rank: 24