D.L. MacDonald Yard (ETS)

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 [ [http://www.edmonton.ca/InfraPlan/Consolidations/PDF%20Consolidations/Kennedale%20Industrial%20ASP%20Consolidation.pdf Kennedale Industrial Area Structure Plan] ] , at 13310 - 50A Street, the facility opened in December, 1983 at a cost of $28.2 million. [ [http://www.edmonton.ca/transit/whats_new/LRT_Brochure_2007.pdf ETS LRT Brochure 2007] ]

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 we have today.

Edmonton's D. L. MacDonald LRT shops in the city's east end were named after him. In the early 1960's, Don MacDonald already had ideas about the direction Edmonton should take in building a quality public transportation system and was working on them. [ [http://www.bettertransit.ab.ca/dlm.htm Plans for a Rail Rapid Transit System in Edmonton (1964)] ]

References

ee also

* Edmonton Light Rail Transit
* Edmonton Transit System