This Depression-era make-work project — Frankensteined together using spare girders and old streetcar rails — is counting the days until it’s replaced.

Accusations of underpaid labour haunt this unassuming Depression make-work project.

It may be small, but 124th Street’s “stalwart brick castle” is one of the only reminders of Edmonton’s long-abandoned streetcar system.

Building a make-work road over the sandy hoodoos of Dawson Park sounded simple enough. Instead it resulted in Council in-fighting, five years of unending construction, and political suicide.

A beautifully functional piece of Retro-Futurism, Bay Station is a potent reminder to the lost optimism surrounding LRT expansion in the early ‘80s.