D.L. MacDonald Yard

Coordinates: 53°35′42″N 113°25′13″W / 53.595°N 113.42028°W / 53.595; -113.42028

Edmonton LRT route diagram

Legend Gorman future Clareview 0 min 50 Street (Highway 15) 137 Avenue D.L. MacDonald Yard Belvedere 3 min CN Lines Yellowhead Trail (Highway 16) Wayne Gretzky Drive (future) North LRT Coliseum 6 min (2014) NAIT 118 Avenue (2014) Kingsway CN Spur End (2014) MacEwan Stadium 8 min Churchill 12 min Central 13 min Bay/Enterprise Square 14 min Corona 15 min Grandin/Gov't Centre 16 min Dudley B. Menzies Bridge North Saskatchewan River University 19 min Health Sciences/Jubilee 20 min McKernan/Belgravia 22 min Belgravia Road South Campus 24 min 111 Street Southbound Southgate 28 min Whitemud Drive (Highway 2) Century Park 33 min 111 Street & 23 Ave Blackmud Creek A. Henday Dr. (Hwy 216) Ellerslie future South LRT 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]

References

1. ^ Kennedale Industrial Area Structure Plan
2. ^ ETS LRT Brochure 2007
3. ^ Construction Update - South LRT, Edmonton, 19 February 2009, http://www.edmonton.ca/transportation/SLRT_ConstructionUpdate_090219.pdf , See Appendix 1 for platform length for this station.
4. ^ Plans for a Rail Rapid Transit System in Edmonton (1964)

See also

• Edmonton Light Rail Transit
• Edmonton Transit System