Personally, I can't think of a better way to spend a Saturday morning than by settling in with a cup of coffee and a magazine-length investigation of what went wrong with a $1.8B public transit project.
For months, my colleagues and I have been looking into what went wrong with the Valley Line Southeast LRT.
We found lots that has never been reported before, from worker injuries to construction errors.
This week we published our investigation, in two parts... 🧵
We got thousands of pages of internal reports for the Valley LIne that describe problems the public never heard — including things that had to be demolished and rebuilt due to quality issues.
From me, Natasha Riebe and Madeleine Cummings, here's Part One.
https://www.cbc.ca/newsinteractives/features/construction-problems-edmonton-valley-line-LRT
According to Alberta OHS, TransEd's own workers had a higher rate of injury than average. TransEd says those workers are only 25% of the project workforce — but did not answer questions about those injuries.
From me and Natasha Riebe, here's Part Two.
Statistics show that TransEd’s direct employees had a higher rate of injuries than both industry and provincial averages. In addition, the Occupational Health and Safety database lists more than 25 orders against TransEd between 2017 and 2022, including some related to confined spaces, emergency preparedness, and investigating incidents of violence and harassment.
Taylor Lambert