Valley Line West LRT

Alignment

Valley Line West extends Edmonton’s low-floor Valley Line 14 km west from its current downtown terminus at 102 Street to Lewis Farms, near Anthony Henday Drive. Together with the existing Valley Line Southeast to Mill Woods, it will complete a 27 km line. From 102 Street the route runs west on 102 Avenue, north on 107 Street, and west along 104 Avenue and Stony Plain Road through Glenora and Jasper Place, then south on 156 Street to 87 Avenue. A 2 km elevated guideway carries it along 87 Avenue between 163 and 182 Street, and a new LRT bridge crosses Anthony Henday Drive.

There are 14 street-level stops and two elevated stations: Alex Decoteau, NorQuest, MacEwan Arts/112 Street, Wîhkwêntôwin (The Yards)/116 Street, Brewery/120 Street, 124 Street, Glenora, Grovenor/142 Street, Stony Plain Road/149 Street, Jasper Place, Glenwood/Sherwood, Meadowlark, Misericordia (elevated), West Edmonton Mall (elevated), Aldergrove/Belmead, and Lewis Farms. The project also includes a light rail vehicle storage facility at Lewis Farms, a new building (OMF-B) at the Gerry Wright Operations and Maintenance Facility, and new vehicles built by Hyundai Rotem.

The City of Edmonton owns the project. Marigold Infrastructure Partners, a consortium whose members include Colas and Parsons, holds the design-build-partially-finance contract. Funding comes from the federal government (C$948.56M), the Province of Alberta (C$1.04B), and the city (C$637M). Edmonton Transit Service will operate the full Valley Line once the west leg opens.

Updates

2026-06 — City to bring Valley Line operations in-house

Edmonton announced that Edmonton Transit Service will take over operation of the Valley Line from TransEd, the private consortium that built and runs Valley Line Southeast, over the next one to two years. TransEd’s contract ran to 2050. Valley Line Southeast opened on November 4, 2023, about three years late, after problems including cracked concrete piers and oxidized underground cables that had to be replaced. The city said Valley Line West construction is still expected to finish in 2028, with an opening date to follow testing.

2026-03 — Construction reaches 64.4%

The city’s Q1 2026 report put construction at 64.4% complete, as measured by the independent certifier, and said the project remained on budget. A full traffic closure of 102 Avenue began in March for work at the downtown end. Structural steel work continued at the Misericordia and West Edmonton Mall stations, while delivery of vehicles from Korea was on hold because of transport issues.

2025-10 — Elevated guideway structure complete

Marigold finished placing all 224 precast concrete segments for the roughly 2 km elevated section along 87 Avenue, from 163 Street to 182 Street, in just under 180 days. The overhead power system, walkways, and both elevated stations were still to be built. The city targeted completion of construction for 2028 but would not give a passenger-service date, which will depend on testing and commissioning.

2025-08 — First light rail vehicle arrives

The first Valley Line West light rail vehicle arrived in Edmonton from South Korea.

2022-05 — Formal groundbreaking

Formal construction began with a groundbreaking on May 27, 2022, after early works started in 2021.

2020-10 — Marigold selected to build the line

The city named Marigold Infrastructure Partners, whose members included Colas, Parsons, Standard General, and Stantec, as preferred proponent to design, build, and partially finance the C$2.6B, 14 km line. Construction was to start in 2021 and take five to six years.