A collision occurred Tuesday morning when a semi tractor trailer turned against a red light and was hit by an oncoming Valley Line LRT train, Edmonton police said.
The crash happened just before 10:30 a.m. on 66/75th Street at the Whitemud Drive overpass.
While the southbound LRT was approaching the Whitemud off ramp, police said the semi turned right against the red light to head north on 75th Street and was hit by the LRT.
The train went off the tracks due to the collision. One person on the LRT was taken to hospital by EMS with non-life-threatening injuries, police said.
As a result of the crash investigation, the off ramp from Whitemud Drive westbound onto 66/75 Street is currently closed.
This story will be updated when the intersections reopens.
The crash came less than a day after another collision involving the same Edmonton LRT line.
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Police said on Monday just after 5:30 p.m., there was a crash between a cyclist and the Valley Line at the 82 Avenue/Whyte Avenue crossing.
Police said the LRT was travelling south when a a 49-year-old man on a bicycle going west proceeded against the red light and “made contact” with the driver’s side of the LRT.
EMS took the man to hospital with non-life-threatening injuries.
The 13-kilometre Valley Line southeast from Mill Woods to downtown is different from the city’s original high-floor LRT system that the Edmonton Transit Service operates.
The line features low-floor, urban-styled trains that provide more pedestrian-friendly access with street-level stops.
In residential and commercial areas, embedded tracks are integrated into the established design and traffic flow of the area — but that integration with existing infrastructure has come with growing pains for drivers.
There have been more than a dozen crashes involving the Valley Line since it opened 10 months ago.
“Since operations began on November 4, 2023, and to date, there have been 18 collisions between a vehicle and a train and five collisions between a pedestrian/cyclist and a train across the entire Valley Line Southeast line,” Ryan Birch, director of bus & security operations at the Edmonton Transit Service, said in a statement Tuesday afternoon.
There were also several crashes before the line opened, when testing trains ran for months along the line.
There have been calls to add crossing arms but the city and TransEd have said several times that drivers need to get used to not having crossing gates and audible bells in order to stay safe.
That message was reiterated on Tuesday, when the city said it and the Edmonton Police Service have been collaborating on additional road-rail safety initiatives surrounding the LRT.
“This style of low-floor LRT is common in many other cities. The city is confident people will continue to effectively and safely adjust to the new system if they obey the rules of the road, as well as all posted signs and signals, particularly those at intersections,” Birch said.
“It’s important for everyone to remember — if you see tracks, expect a train from either direction— and remember to wait for a green light before you turn right across the tracks.”
The line is built by public-private partnership contractor TransEd, a consortium made up of four companies: engineering firm Bechtel, construction company EllisDon, train builder Alstom (which acquired former builder Bombardier in 2021) and Fengate Asset Management.
TransEd is responsible for designing, constructing, operating and maintaining the line for the next 30 years.
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