D.L. MacDonald Yard

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

Edmonton LRT
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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

• Edmonton Light Rail Transit
• Edmonton Transit System

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)