Valley Line West LRT construction advancing, all elevated concrete segments done

While it will still be several more years until trains begin running along the western leg of the Valley Line LRT , a major part of the construction is complete.

A stretch of the line includes a two-kilometre long elevated section along 87 Avenue from 163 Street to 182 Street, which includes two stations at West Edmonton Mall and Misericordia Hospital.

The contractor building the western leg, Marigold Infrastructure Partners, says all of the concrete segments are now in place for the raised tracks — thanks to a specialized crane brought in from the other side of the world.

Marigold said the massive, 400-tonne gantry crane has been instrumental in completing that section of the LRT line.

Through modular construction, the gantry crane hoisted 60-tonne pre-cast concrete segments into pl