D.L. MacDonald Yard

Coordinates: 53°35′42″N 113°25′13″W / 53.59500°N 113.42028°W / 53.59500; -113.42028

Edmonton LRT

Legend
 min. running time
Northeast LRT
to Gorman
 future
0 Clareview
 Hwy 15 (50 Street)
 137 Avenue

 D.L. MacDonald Yard
 3 Belvedere
CN Lines
 Hwy 16 (Yellowhead Trail)
 Wayne Gretzky Drive
 6 Coliseum
 118 Avenue

 CN Spur End

 8 Stadium
Northwest LRT
to St. Albert
 future
NAIT
Kingsway/Royal Alex
MacEwan

12 Churchill
 13 Central
 15 Bay/Enterprise Square
 16 Corona
 18 Grandin/Government Centre
Dudley B. Menzies Bridge over
North Saskatchewan River
 20 University
 22 Health Sciences/Jubilee
 24 McKernan/Belgravia

 Belgravia Road

 26 S. Campus/Ft. Edmonton

 111 Street southbound

 29 Southgate
 Hwy 2 (Whitemud Drive)
 33 Century Park
South LRT
to south city limits
 future

D.L. MacDonald Yard is the maintenance facility, garage and operations centre for the light rail transit system of Edmonton Transit in the city of Edmonton, Alberta, Canada. Located to the northeast in the Kennedale industrial area,[1] at 13310 - 50A Street, the facility opened in December 1983 at a cost of $28.2 million.[2]

North entrance of D.L. MacDonald Yard garage at sunset.

Expansions to the facility to accommodate additional light rail vehicles were completed as part of the South LRT Extension Project. Portions of the expansion were completed in 2008 with the remainder completed in early 2009.[3]

History

Don MacDonald was the Superintendent of the Edmonton Transit System for many years. A well known proponent of electric and light rail transit, his ideas about quality public transit were very influential in shaping the system that exists today.

Edmonton's D. L. MacDonald LRT shops in the city's east end were named after him. In the early 1960s, Don MacDonald already had ideas about the direction Edmonton should take in building a quality public transportation system and was working on them.[4]

See also

References

  1. ↑ Kennedale Industrial Area Structure Plan
  2. ↑ ETS LRT Brochure 2007
  3. ↑ Construction Update - South LRT (PDF), Edmonton, 19 February 2009, See Appendix 1 for platform length for this station.
  4. ↑ Plans for a Rail Rapid Transit System in Edmonton (1964)
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