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It isn't a very long line of track or the biggest stop along Edmonton's LRT network, but the new Metro Line expansion is open ahead of schedule – and on budget.
The City of Edmonton announced Tuesday that the new NAIT/Blatchford Market LRT station, part of Phase 1 of the Metro Line Northwest LRT extension, will open on Jan. 20.
The new LRT line into the Blatchford neighbourhood on the former municipal airport lands in north Edmonton is nearly complete, but one of the two new stations slated for it likely won't be open for years to come.
The city simply isn’t very good at building LRT. Period.
Crews have been quietly working on an Edmonton LRT extension to the northwest in Blatchford, even though the community is still under construction.