Posts by Graeme McElheran

Graeme McElheran is a Communications Officer with the City of Edmonton's LRT Design & Construction Branch. He creates and coordinates communications for LRT projects

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Another One Rides the Bus

by Graeme McElheran on 02/03/2012

It would be difficult to nail down exactly which initiative contributed most to the 5.2 percent increase in ridership the Edmonton Transit System (ETS) experienced in 2011. It must be part of the overall increasing trend that’s been ongoing since 2002, when Edmontonians were taking almost 300,000 bus and LRT trips every weekday. In 2011, [...]

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Tagged as: Edmonton Transit System, ets, LRT, Ridership, Transportation

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Edmonton’s Cutting Edge Traffic Management

by Graeme McElheran on 11/16/2011

The task was two-fold: create a video promoting Edmonton to an international audience of thousands, while at the same time explaining the most cutting-edge aspect of the City’s Intelligent Transportation System (ITS), to play repeatedly on a big screen at the 2011 ITS World Congress held in Orlando, Florida in September 2011. The first part [...]

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Tagged as: Edmonton, smart roads, Transportation, video

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Kingsway Before & After North LRT

by Graeme McElheran on 04/13/2011

What a whirlwind the 2011 construction season is going to be for the North LRT to NAIT. It’s not like the project has been invisible to date. There’s lots of construction activity happening, especially on and around the North LRT right-of-way on 105 Ave, 105 Street, 104 Street and Kingsway. EPCOR, ATCO and other companies [...]

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Tagged as: City of Edmonton, development, Livability, LRT, sustainable transportation, The Way Ahead, the way we move, Transportation

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Minimizing Tree Removals for LRT

by Graeme McElheran on 03/15/2011

Some residents of Central McDougall and other Edmonton neighbourhoods are understandably upset by the removal of several mature elm trees from the future North LRT to NAIT right-of-way around 105 Street and 108 Avenue. Removing trees for any reason is an unfortunate necessity that no one takes lightly. The City has a mandate to remove [...]

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Tagged as: Environment, LRT, sustainable transportation, the way we move, Transportation

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North LRT Video Animation Online

by Graeme McElheran on 12/16/2010

Detailed design of the North LRT to NAIT is 95 percent complete, which means all aspects of Edmonton’s next shift in transportation mode are being finalized. Using engineering analysis the North LRT design team has synthesized over the last 15 months, one of the City’s consultants, ISL Engineering & Land Services Ltd., created a video [...]

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Tagged as: animation, Churchill Station to NAIT, ets, ISL Engineering, Livability, LRT, North LRT, the way we move, Transportation, Urban Form, urban landscape

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