New Stony Plain Road Bridge over Groat Road to open this weekend

After astir 2 years of closures owed to Valley Line LRT westbound construction, a large way betwixt westbound Edmonton and downtown volition reopen this weekend.

Stony Plain Road betwixt 129th and 139th streets, on with the caller Stony Plain Road Bridge implicit Groat Road, volition reopen to vehicles, cyclists and pedestrians connected Saturday, Nov. 30.

Stretches of the roadworthy successful the westbound extremity have been closed since December 2022, erstwhile the aged span was demolished and has since been replaced with a caller span that accommodates LRT tracks.

During the closure, eastbound and westbound postulation has been diverted southbound to 102nd Avenue and northbound to 107th Avenue.

Valley Line LRT operation connected Stony Plain Road betwixt 131st Street and 139th Street was expected to beryllium done by the opening of November 2023, but earlier this twelvemonth the contractor for the westbound limb of the LRT, Marigold Infrastructure Partners (MIP), said it ran into immoderate challenges.

Construction enactment exposed existing infrastructure that wasn’t deemed capable and MIP needed to bash unexpected work, the institution said astatine the time.

Wet upwind and a skilled labour shortage compounded the problems. The metropolis stressed that missed deadlines outgo the institution money, not the city.

Back successful the spring, a 10-block agelong of the roadworthy spanning either broadside of the span was unopen down to accommodate operation work.

The closure was initially expected to lone spell from April until August and Marigold said the enactment was completed connected schedule, however the closure was extended to the extremity of November “to accelerate further enactment and assistance minimize impacts connected Edmontonians successful 2025.”

Marigold noted portion the roadworthy is reopening, operation enactment is inactive ongoing. Work connected the OCS (Overhead Catenary System), imperishable streetlights, and the inferior analyzable volition proceed on the road.

Some important postulation changes person been made to the large roadway.

To accommodate the LRT tracks that volition let trains to question betwixt downtown and the westbound broadside of Edmonton, Stony Plain Road has been permanently reduced to a azygous lane of postulation successful either direction.

Most intersections volition beryllium permanently restricted to close in/right retired and near turns from Stony Plain Road onto astir adjacent streets volition beryllium permanently banned. Left turns onto Stony Plain Road volition beryllium maintained astatine 132 Street and 134 Street, Margold said.

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The City of Edmonton volition clasp a quality league adjacent week to larn much astir the large milestone for the Valley Line West LRT.

Construction connected the $2.6-billion occidental limb of the LRT enactment from downtown to the westbound extremity began successful 2021 and was expected to instrumentality 5 to six years to complete.

Marigold Infrastructure Partners is made up of squad members Colas, Parsons, Standard General, Francl Architecture, Fast & Epp and Stantec.

From extremity to extremity erstwhile complete, the Valley Line volition tally 27 km from Mill Woods successful the southeast to Lewis Farms successful the westbound end.

—with files from Caley Ramsay and Emily Mertz, Global News