{"id":626753,"date":"2026-04-25T01:35:20","date_gmt":"2026-04-25T01:35:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/626753\/"},"modified":"2026-04-25T01:35:20","modified_gmt":"2026-04-25T01:35:20","slug":"west-edmonton-lrt-construction-update","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/626753\/","title":{"rendered":"West Edmonton LRT construction update"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">On Friday, the City of Edmonton and Marigold Construction Partners announced that 87 Avenue will soon be reduced to one lane each way between 159 Street and the access ramps onto Anthony Henday Drive. Traffic shifts will begin at the intersection of 87 Avenue and 178 Street on April 27, and then at 87 Avenue and 170 Street on May 4. The closures are needed to facilitate the ongoing construction of the Valley Line West LRT extension. The lane closures are expected to remain in place until the end of the 2026 construction season \u2014 so, when the first snow of autumn leaves white stuff on the ground.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"On Friday, the City of Edmonton and Marigold Construction Partners announced that 87 Avenue will soon be reduced&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":626754,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[194294],"tags":[234919,49,48,23752],"class_list":["post-626753","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-edmonton","tag-87th-avenue","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-edmonton"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/626753","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=626753"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/626753\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/626754"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=626753"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=626753"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=626753"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}