99 Street - Streetscape And Library Parkade Waterproofing
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Image: Overhead map of project area on 99 Street, from Jasper Avenue (left) to 102 Avenue (right)
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Plans to revitalize 99 Street between 102 Avenue and Jasper Avenue are underway!
The design for this portion of 99 Street will improve active transportation in the area, encourage walkability and support downtown vibrancy. The aged waterproofing membrane on the Stanley A. Milner Library parkade under 99 Street will also be replaced. The project supports the vision for a green, walkable downtown and includes adequate space for comfortable pedestrian movements and a two-way bike lane connecting Jasper Avenue and 102 Avenue. Two-way vehicle traffic, on-street parking and access to the area’s various parking facilities will be maintained.
In addition to the information on this page, please view the 99 Street concept design booklet.
Image: looking northward up 99 Street from Jasper Avenue (renderings are subject to change)
The 99 Street concept design complements other ongoing or completed City projects in the area including the Valley Line LRT, Jasper Avenue New Vision, Centennial Plaza and Judy Padua Way.
Image: looking southward down 99 Street from Shoctor Alley (renderings are subject to change)
Please view the detailed 99 Street concept design booklet, and then share your thoughts below.
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Why do we need cars here? What's with the city's obsession with putting cars on every single road. This is a great candidate for a pedestrianized road. Also, it looks like these renders are very ugly...if we removed the car lanes, we could put more trees in there and make the area more desireable. Let's not continue building 90s style infrastructure...
PLEASE DELAY THIS PROJECT BECAUSE THE NOISE HAS MADE DT CORE UNLIVABLE ALREADY FOR YEARS. I'm begging you! I live in the McLeod Building, my neighbors and the thousands living in the area have had to deal with CONSTANT noise pollution from "revitalization" to the point people are moving out of downtown. I hoped you had run out of concrete to break, but WE need a break! This REEKS of corruption!
The black colour of the light poles seems inconsistent with the rest of the downtown (ie. light poles on adjacent Jasper Avenue renewal, Ice District, new LRT). Suggest making them the same light grey colour to avoid a visual mish-mash and to make downtown feel more cohesive.
Feels a bit uninspiring. Please reduce car lane to 1 and design space for people (benches, tables, trees, playspace, colourful elevated crosswalk). Please add bike parking, use trees instead of planters for Citadel and Library area because it needs more shade, limit speed to 30 and add elevated crosswalks as this is a pedestrian zone, and add concrete barricades or bollards for ped/cyclist safety
Feels a bit uninspiring. Please reduce car lane to 1 and design space for people (benches, tables, trees, playspace, colourful elevated crosswalk). Please add bike parking, use trees instead of planters for Citadel and Library area because it needs more shade, limit speed to 30 and add elevated crosswalks as this is a pedestrian zone, and add concrete barricades or bollards for ped/cyclist safety
Feels uninspiring. Maybe reduce car lane to 1 and design space for people (benches, tables, trees, playspace, colourful elevated crosswalk). Please add bike parking, use trees instead of planters for Citadel and Library area because it needs more shade, limit speed to 30 and add elevated crosswalks as this is a pedestrian zone, and add concrete barricades or bollards for pedestrian/cyclist safety
Feels uninspiring. Maybe reduce car lane to 1 and design space for people (benches, tables, trees, playspace, colourful elevated crosswalk). Please add bike parking, use trees instead of planters for Citadel and Library area because it needs more shade, limit speed to 30 and add elevated crosswalks as this is a pedestrian zone, and add concrete barricades or bollards for pedestrian/cyclist safety
Please add bollards or barriers to separate the bike lanes from the cars. Or, close it to cars like west of 101 street! Add lots of big trees. The area is a real heat dome. Good, secure bike lock ups would be appreciated.
Please add bollards or concrete barriers to separate the bike lane- paint is not infrastructure... Also need trees big enough to shade the bike and pedestrian areas— cool down the city! Secure bike parking ( dare we dream for an indoor supervised bikelot one day?) is also essential!!
I was there on my bike just this weekend, but didn't feel confident in leaving my bike to actually enter any building. Bike cages would be a welcome addition
Where are the wheeling and biking lanes
Bike lanes need to be protected physically or they do not protect cyclists. Do we even need cars on this street? We have lived without car traffic on this street a long time and gotten along just fine. Close it to cars completely or at least protect the bike lanes
Dullsville. As has most of the planning in Edmonton been for the last 20 years....do better.
Concrete overkill. Would like to see less concrete through downtown and more green. More of 97st and Jasper ave. What was done there was beautiful, Id rather something similar be done here. Planters aren't enough.
A few items to incorporate:
- The materials used for the sidewalk and protected bike lanes need to be different or a significantly different tone. What was done in Garneau along 88 Ave is not good enough and people walk in the bikeway. Asphalt for bikeway, concrete for sidewalk.
- Can accesses to Impark be closed/consolidated to reduce conflicts?
- How do people biking turn onto Shoctor Alley?
My bike was stolen on that part of 99 St. I hope there will be video surveillance of the new bike racks.
I like that trees and ground-level plantings are planned.
Overall, this looks very utilitarian and uninspired, save for the home-depot inspired twinkle lights that cross 102 ave. I think the world has lots to offer in terms of great lighting installations. Go seek them out.
Given that the city is grey/while/brown for much of the year, are evergreen trees an option? Trees in large above ground planters?
Be more creative. You can do better.
Good plan, but what’s the point. I live downtown and get accosted every time I go out. I can’t even walk down 101 street anymore due to the homeless people on both sides of the street by City Centre. They yell, spit and threaten me. I had my phone taken and thrown in the fountain in Beaver Hills Park. I now take an Uber to go from my home on 104 st to the Citadel. This project is a waste
It looks really exciting! And the visuals are helpful to get a idea of how things could look.
I recently travelled to Minneapolis and their downtown bike lanes were aligned beside the pedestrian sidewalks. The pedestrian and bike lanes were running alongside one another without poles and flower pots between them. It felt more open to walkable along the street. the bike lane and sidewalk were at the same level so it also transitions well between walking and bike lane surface.