NAIT station is an Edmonton Light Rail Transit station in Edmonton, Alberta. It serves the Metro Line. The station will be temporarily located north of Princess Elizabeth Avenue, on the south side of the Northern Alberta Institute of Technology's swimming pool and hockey arena wing, before a permanent station is ultimately built after a long-term comprehensive land use plan of the Edmonton City Centre Airport lands are finalized.[4][5][6] NAIT station is the northern terminus of the Metro Line.[6]

NAIT
Edmonton LRT station
General information
Coordinates	53°33′58″N 113°30′21″W
Owned by	City of Edmonton
Platforms	Centre
Tracks	2
Construction
Structure type	Surface
Platform levels	1
Bicycle facilities	Yes
Disabled access	Yes
History
Opened	September 6, 2015[1]
Rebuilt	2020 to TBD
Electrified	600 V DC[2]
Passengers
2019 (typical weekday)	2,931 board 2,864 alight 5,795 Total[3]
Services
Preceding station Edmonton LRT Following station Terminus Metro Line Kingsway/Royal Alex toward Health Sciences/Jubilee
Route map Legend 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 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 This diagram: view talk edit

The station was closed for four months from April 28 to August 30, 2019 due to construction on the Capital Line which shares track with southern sections of the Metro Line.[7] Because of delays that the construction is expected to cause, Edmonton Transit operated five car trains on the Metro Line.[7] Since the NAIT station island platform is only 3 cars long, these larger trains were unable to fit alongside the platform, hence the temporary closure.

The station is currently being replaced by two different stations; NAIT and Blatchford Market, which construction was started on in 2020, which is located on the Blatchford lands.[8]

History

Preliminary engineering of the line was completed July 2009 and construction of the phase from the MacEwan station to NAIT began in the summer of 2011. The station was supposed to open in 2014.[9] However, due to delays it opened on September 6, 2015.[1]

Station layout

NAIT Station is an at-grade station with a centre platform. Unlike the other LRT stations in Edmonton, the current platform at NAIT Station will only accommodate three-car trains. This is because it is a temporary station.

Around the station

• Northern Alberta Institute of Technology
• Alberta Aviation Museum
• Kingsway Mall
• Spruce Avenue
• Westwood

References