Upcoming Street Labs Engagement
September 16-October 7, 2025: Eaux Claires and Belle Rive, Falconer Heights, Fulton Place, Greenfield and McQueen.
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Vision Zero Street Labs are a great way to work with the City to bring traffic safety improvements to your neighbourhood using adaptable traffic calming measures.
September 16-October 7, 2025: Eaux Claires and Belle Rive, Falconer Heights, Fulton Place, Greenfield and McQueen.
Each Street Lab project is tailored to the unique needs of the community to creatively address neighbourhood traffic safety concerns such as speeding, short-cutting and other unsafe driving behaviours.
Note: Street Labs before 2023 were primarily community-led with the process varying across neighbourhoods. As a result, the life cycles of these Street Labs did not follow the current steps or the documentation available to the public.
Neighbourhood | Step | Documents | Lifecycle | ||
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Allard | Street Lab in Place |
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Ambleside | Street Lab in Place | Ambleside Street Lab Plan: Phases One and Two |
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Avonmore | Street Lab in Place | Avonmore Street Lab Plan |
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Avonmore (Community Led) | Street Lab in Place |
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Balwin (Community Led) | Street Lab in Place |
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Blackmud Creek | Engagement |
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Beverly Heights | Install |
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Beverly Heights (Community Led) | Street Lab in Place |
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Blue Quill/Sweet Grass (Community Led) | Street Lab in Place |
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Bonnie Doon | Street Lab in Place |
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Brander Gardens (Community Led) | Street Lab in Place |
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Britannia Youngstown | Install |
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Callingwood North | Install | Callingwood North Engagement Public Notice |
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Carlton | Evaluate |
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Carter Crest (Community Led) | Street Lab in Place |
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Davies Industrial West/Wagner Road (Community Led) | Street Lab in Place |
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Delton | Install |
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Dovercourt (Community Led) | Street Lab in Place |
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Eaux Claires/Belle Rive | Engagement | Belle Rive/Eaux Claires Engagement Public Notice |
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Evansdale | Install |
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Falconer Heights | Engagement | Falconer Heights Engagement Public Notice |
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Fulton Place | Engagement | Fulton Place Engagement Public Notice |
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Glengarry | Install |
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Greenfield | Engagement | Greenfield Engagement Public Notice |
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Greenview | Engagement |
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Grovenor (Community Led) | Street Lab in Place |
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Grovenor | Engagement | Grovenor What We Heard |
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High Park | Create Plan |
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Idylwylde | Evaluate |
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Jackson Heights | Create Plan |
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Kiniski Gardens | Engagement |
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Laurel | Evaluate |
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Magrath Heights (Community Led) | Street Lab in Place |
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Matt Berry | Engagement |
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Mayfield | Evaluate |
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McConachie (Community Led) | Street Lab in Place |
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McKernan | Street Lab in Place | McKernan Installation Public Notice McKernan Street Lab Evaluation Summary |
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McQueen | Engagement | McQueen Engagement Public Notice |
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Newton | Evaluate |
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Northmount | Street Lab in Place |
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Oliver (Community Led) | Street Lab in Place |
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Parkallen | Street Lab in Place |
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Parkdale | Evaluate |
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Parkview | Evaluate |
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Queen Alexandra (Community Led) | Street Lab in Place |
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Rapperswill | Engagement |
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Ritchie | Evaluate |
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Rosenthal (Community Led) | Street Lab in Place |
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Silver Berry | Street Lab in Place |
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Spruce Avenue | Create Plan |
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Summerside | Street Lab in Place | Summerside Street Lab Plan |
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The Hamptons (Community Led) | Street Lab in Place |
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The Orchards at Ellerslie | Evaluate |
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Webber Greens | Install |
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Wellington | Evaluate |
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Westmount (Community Led) | Street Lab in Place |
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Westwood (Community Led) | Street Lab in Place | Westwood Street Lab Installation Public Notice |
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Wild Rose | Install | Wild Rose What We Heard Wild Rose Installation Public Notice |
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Woodcroft | Install |
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Vision Zero Street Labs follow a 5-step process.
The City reviews prospective neighbourhoods for Vision Zero Street Labs engagement based on public traffic safety concerns, collision data, existing safety improvements and other technical considerations.
Previous applications and other requests for neighbourhood safety improvements received throughout the year will also be considered when selecting the neighbourhoods.
If your neighbourhood is selected for Street Lab engagement, the City will explore residents’ perspectives and gain insights into their lived experiences and traffic safety concerns.
Residents in neighbourhoods selected for engagement are asked to participate in the following activities:
The results of the engagement will be used in combination with technical data to determine if a Street Lab is needed to address traffic safety concerns or if another Safe Mobility program would be more beneficial. A What We Heard Report will be shared with the results.
City staff will use what they have learned during the engagement step to develop a Street Lab Plan and share it with residents. See examples of traffic calming measures below that may be included in the Street Lab plan.
City staff will bring the Street Lab to life by installing adaptable measures to address traffic safety concerns.
Adaptable traffic calming measures allow the City to trial traffic safety solutions quickly and effectively, with the ability to make adjustments as needed. Adaptable measures may include:
The Street Lab has been installed, evaluated and is currently active in the neighbourhood. City staff will continue to monitor traffic data to inform further decision-making if needed.
The process is also outlined on the Street Labs Road Map.
Vision Zero Street Labs are a data-driven solution to improving traffic safety in a neighbourhood in a quick and cost-effective manner. It provides the neighbourhood and its residents with:
While Street Labs focus on addressing traffic safety concerns in residential neighbourhoods, certain road types are out of scope:
The following traffic safety policies and projects that are covered by other City of Edmonton programs are not included in Street Labs:
The Street Lab measures will remain in place indefinitely as long as they continue to improve traffic safety in the area. The City continues to monitor resident feedback received via 311, technical and policy considerations to determine whether changes are needed. If no changes are identified, the project will remain in place as is.
Opportunities to convert any adaptable measures that were installed as a part of a Street Lab to permanent are reviewed periodically as a part of the road renewal or the path to permanence processes.
Traffic calming measures are an opportunity to learn how we can work together to improve safety and livability.
As a winter city, understanding how the installations operate and influence street safety and livability is an important part of this learning process.
These measures are required to continue supporting safety in communities with traffic safety concerns such as speeding, shortcutting and crossing safely during all seasons.
Curb Extensions and Parklets
Centre Medians
Two-stage Crossings
Bike Lanes
Traffic Diverter
Rubber Speed Humps
If any issues are experienced with these adaptable traffic measures, we encourage residents to contact 311.
Once the City becomes aware that maintenance is required, it should take 1-2 business days to complete the repair (weather and severity of repairs permitting).
If there is severe damage during the winter, replacements or repairs will need to wait until the Spring.
Please reach out to your Community Activator with concerns about snow clearing around your neighbourhood’s Street Lab.
If any issues are experienced with these adaptable traffic measures, we encourage residents to contact 311.
The City of Edmonton provides the following supports:
Adaptable traffic calming measures used in Vision Zero programs are an opportunity to learn how we can work together to improve safety and livability. Most of the adaptable traffic safety measures across the city remain in place for the cold season.
During the winter months, snow accumulating on top of and inside of adaptable traffic calming measures does not pose any safety risks to road users, and we expect the measures to continue to work as intended. Placement of some measures may be adjusted to reduce impacts of snow and ice. Site inspections over the winter will verify the effectiveness of the placement of the adaptable measures.
If any issues are experienced regarding snow clearing around adaptable traffic measures, we encourage residents to contact 311. Once the City becomes aware that maintenance is required, it should take 1-2 business days to complete the repair (weather and severity of repairs permitting).
If there is severe damage during the winter, replacements or repairs will need to wait until the Spring.
Curb extension placement has been adjusted to reduce impacts of snow and ice based on prior feedback from residents. Site inspections will occur to verify the effectiveness of the placement of these measures over the winter.
Curb extensions adjacent to monowalks (where there are no boulevards) will have snow pushed to the opposite side, which would result in the curb extension having less snow. When there are monowalks on both sides, the snow will be accumulated in the middle of the road and then cleared away
Curb extensions adjacent to boulevards will have snow piled onto them.
Snow will be pushed towards the boulevards and cleared with the rest of the windrow if they are removed.
The crossing portion would not be bladed, if there are persistent issues that are flagged by residents via 311, or by community project teams, they will be addressed.
Fully divided lanes will be maintained by bike lane crews. Sections or partial areas will be addressed by the adjacent roadway clearing. This may result in areas that are packed with snow, in the event that these are needed to be cleared, Active pathways can respond on special request.
Only 1 adaptable traffic diverter exists, which is in the Dovercourt community. The crosswalk in between the curbs would not experience regular clearing, and would require a special request made through 311.
These areas will be cleared with the adjacent road. Truck plows will work to provide a clean and passable surface. If residual snow is left additional clearings can be requested by calling 311.
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