What this site is
edmontonlrt.com is an independent guide to Edmonton’s light rail: the Capital, Metro and Valley lines and their 29 stations. It is not the City of Edmonton’s website and it is not affiliated with Edmonton Transit Service (ETS): we do not sell fares, we cannot load an Arc card and we cannot deal with a refund or a complaint about a trip. For any of that, ETS and the City are the people to contact.
What we do is put in one place a page for every station, each line with its first and last trains, fares and the Arc card, a trip planner and the way to the airport, written to be read on a phone on a platform. The site is funded by advertising.
What the October 2026 review found
On October 11, 2026 we checked every page against ETS’s own schedule data and the City’s fare pages, and a fair amount had to change.
Timetables. The Capital Line pages said trains came every 8 to 10 minutes in the evening and at weekends; the current ETS schedule has them every 15 minutes. The Sunday columns were a copy of Saturday’s, when Sunday service actually ends earlier. And the “last train” at each end of a line was the time the last train arrived there, not when it left: Clareview showed 1:46 am, but the last departure is at 12:55 am. All three lines are now rebuilt from the schedule feed.
Valley Line. Every Valley Line station page said that getting to Churchill downtown meant one change. It doesn’t: Mill Woods to the Churchill stop is a direct ride of about 30 minutes.
Fares. We had written that bank cards don’t get fare capping (they do, when you tap the same card every time), that youth fares go up to 24 (they are for 18 and under), that one Arc card can pay for a group (every rider over 12 needs their own payment) and that stations have no ticket machines (every LRT station has one, and they take cash). We had also left out tapping off, which ETS requires, and the $6 fare on the Route 747 airport bus.
Smaller things too: Health Sciences/Jubilee is a surface station, not an underground one; Borden Park is south-east of Coliseum, not north of it; and the network has 29 stations, not 30, as one paragraph of our home page said.
What is live and what is not
Nothing on this site is live. ETS publishes real-time positions for its buses, but not for the LRT, so there is no live source to connect to. The service status page tells you whether each line is inside its scheduled hours right now, in Edmonton time, plus any long-term works we know about. It cannot see a delay or a breakdown, and it does not pretend to.
Times on the site are ETS’s published schedule. If it says the last train leaves Century Park at 1:10 am, that is the plan, not a promise about tonight.
Where each fact comes from
Fares, passes, fare capping and the Arc card: the City of Edmonton’s fares and Arc pages, checked on October 11, 2026.
Stations, line order, first and last trains and frequencies: the ETS GTFS schedule feed valid from September 20 to November 28, 2026.
Line lengths and opening dates: the City of Edmonton and, where it is silent, Wikipedia.
What is near each station and how long it takes to walk there: our own writing, checked against the map; walking times are estimates.
Photographs: from Wikimedia Commons, with attribution where the licence requires it.
When we get it wrong
We fix it and we say what was fixed — this page is the example. Where this site and ETS disagree, ETS is right. If you spot a fare, a time or a station detail that does not add up, write to [email protected]: it is the quickest way to get it corrected.
Who is behind this site
This site is run by the team at GoRandom, a small group based in the Basque Country in Spain who do two things that go together better than they sound: travel, and build websites.
Edmonton is not yet one of the cities we have set foot in — we are up to twenty and we move slowly. We would rather say so than pretend otherwise: what you read here does not come from our memories, it comes from what the operator publishes and from checking work we can show you.
The other half of what we know how to do is web development, and this site is the excuse to put the two together. We do not leave it sitting there: every fare and every timetable carries its source and the date we checked it, and they get revised when the operator changes something. The last thorough revision was on October 11, 2026, when every timetable on the site was rebuilt from the current ETS schedule feed and every fare checked against the City of Edmonton’s own fares and Arc pages.
He decides what goes up, checks the data before it does, and answers the email. If you find a fare that has expired or a timetable that no longer holds, there is a specific person to write to.