Edmonton Transit Service Jasper Place Transit Centre

Opened	1964
Location	Stony Plain Road/ 157 St.
LRT Lines Served	Future WLRT
Platform	1 Main island platform, 1 satellite platform, plus on street stops
Passenger Access	N/A
Park and Ride	No
1965 and 1988

Jasper Place Transit Centre is located in the former town of Jasper Place, which was west of the boarder with Edmonton at 149 St, until Edmonton annexed Jasper Place on August 17, 1964. Jasper Place was the first transit centre in Edmonton when it opened in 1964, and is still in use today. Over the years, the transit centre has evolved and seen a number of upgrades. The initial transit centre consisted of an island platform running North and South between Stony Plain Road and 100 Ave with 8 bays, 4 on each side. A trolleybus substation was located on the Northwest corner of the property, and this featured operator washrooms. The route #1 trolley coach was extended West from it's former terminus at 147 St. With the opening of Jasper Place Transit Centre, the route #1 trolleybus wires were extended to this destination. Immediately to the West of the terminal has always been a park, which today is know as the Butler Memorial Park, although I don't know if this was historically it's name. In 1979 at a cost of $40,000 the original passenger shelter had it's heated waiting area expanded, and additional lighting added.
By 1988 the transit centre had been expanded to included an additional passenger island located towards the Southwest of the existing platform, with space for 2 bus bays. Additionally, buses would now stop on 100 Ave, East and West of the transit centre.
The trolleybus system was expanded westward during the early 1980's, with wire reaching West on 107 Ave and 118 Ave to 156 St. From 156 St, the wire ran South into Jasper Place Transit Centre.
New wire on 100 Ave allowed trolley coaches to turn  into the transit centre, or go straight through to the stop just West of the terminal, which featured passing wire to allow multiple routes to serve the stop. During Horizon 2000, the 120 would use the transit centre stop, while the 3, 7, and 133 would stop on 100 Ave. The trolleywire then went North on 158 St, East on Stony Plain Road. This new wire was configured to send trolley coaches back North on 156 St, but crossovers allowed alternate routing. All of this new wire was K+M, although in later years the special work was simplified and replaced with Ohio Brass-style equipment. There is also a bus stop Eastbound on Stony Plain Road just before the transit centre that would afford passengers the opportunity to disembark, especially if your bus need to loop around via 156 St to enter the transit centre from 100 Ave, or you could catch the trolleybus routes that stopped on 100 Ave as they came around from 158 St.
In late 2009 the original passenger shelter at Jasper Place Transit Centre was removed and replaced with the shelters that had been used at the temporary Southgate Transit Centre, and later at the regular Southgate Transit Centre after buses had returned there.
The passenger shelter served until 2017-2018 when Jasper Place Transit Centre received a significant rebuilding, although, this was a long, drawn out rebuilding it was done as two separate projects.
First, all of the concrete for the bus driveways and passenger platforms was replaced. This occurred during 2017 and was done at a cost of $2.5 million, with $1.213 million coming from the Federal PTIF. While the work was being done, buses were relegated to the perimeter stops, with some additional stops created West of the regular stops along 100 Ave and Stony Plain Road.
A tender for the replacement of the shelter structure, demolition of the former trolleybus substation and then construction of a new shelter structure and facilities for operators didn't close until November 2017.
Work started in 2018 on the new building, and as I recall, the transit centre had reopened for short time after the concrete work was done, but before construction began on the new buildings.
This second round of work was doing to cost $5.6 million with about $2.5 million in Federal PTIF funding, as well as Provincial (GreenTrip?) funding of about $1.6 million.
Once again, with this work underway buses were back to using the perimeter stops. Work commenced in Spring 2018 and was supposed to be finished by the end of 2018. The City of Edmonton terminated the contract with the original contractor after only 30% of work had been completed by November 2018. Nothing happened for the following 9 months until a new contractor resumed work. The new Jasper Place Transit Centre was finally ready by early 2020 with the opening to occurred at 10am on April 9, 2020.
Due to the way funding came in with the Federal PTIF grants, it was common place to see bus driveways being rebuilt while new shelter structures would be built separately later on. This also occurred with: Belvedere, Castle Downs, and West Edmonton Mall. Incidentally, this happened earlier on in history with Northgate, Southgate, Westmount, and West Edmonton Mall all having their passenger shelters built after the original driveway and passenger platforms had been built and placed in service.
The WLRT will have a Jasper Place stop less than 1 block from the South end of the Transit Centre. Some original plans had shown a different arrangement for the transit centre and LRT stop, but a much simpler arrangement just requiring a short walk became the final plan.

Original Transit Centre
#598 operating a regular service 120, while a Brill is providing rides during the events for the  60th Anniversary of Trolleybuses in Edmonton. September 25, 1999	I made sure to take a photo at a transit centre anytime I could if it was all GM's as I knew that scene would become increasingly rare. Looking North into buses facing South at Jasper Place TC. January 2002	Trolleybuses laying over Westbound on 100 Ave.	#102 on a route 133 laying over on 100 Ave as a route 120 with a refurbed BBC enters the terminal, with an assortment of other buses around, including a Glaval further down 100 Ave. April 24, 2009.
2009-2018 With New Shelter
Final work to install the new shelters at Jasper Place, after it's move from Southgate. While they were used as separate units at both Southgate's, they were combined into one unit at Jasper Place. December 22, 2009	With everything else ripped up, the shelter sits waiting for new concrete to be poured. September 1, 2017
Current Transit Centre
Work at this point had stopped on the new Jasper Place Transit Centre passenger shelter. If construction was stopped for 9 months starting in November 2018, that would mean it wouldn't resume until August 2019.	The new Jasper Place Transit Centre, along with a "high floor" aluminum shelter on 100 Ave. Under the BNR, the use of this bus stop would no longer be required.