Transportation Master Plan Update (Executive Summary)

moving on sustainability TRANSPORTATION MASTER PLAN UPDATE NOVEMBER 2009

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     

                                                             

                                                                           

                                 

                    

■■              

■■          

■■           

■■                     

■■     

■■               2

■■          

■■     

                                                                     

                                                                

  

                                        

                            

■■                              

■■               

■■                                            3

                                                 

■■        

■■     

■■       

■■        

■■      

■■         

■■         

                                                                       

                                                                   

       

                          

■■           

■■                       

■■                          4

■■                 

       

                                                                                    

                                                                          

         

                                                  

     

■■                  

■■              

■■                          5

        

                                          

■■        

■■      

■■     

                                                   

                                                                           sustainable        6

     ●●             ●●                                      ●●             ●●                    ●●                             ●●                             ●●                         ●●                  

YORK REGION 2031 TRANSIT NETWORK Lake Simcoe Fox Island Georgina Island Transit Network Improvements Snake Island Existing GO Rail Station Proposed GO Rail Station Commuter / HOV Parking Local Gateway to Transit Network Sutton Gateway Hub Highway 48

Highway 404 Pefferlaw Anchor Hub / Regional Centre

CivicCentre Road Special Study Area (see footnote) Woodbine Avenue Town of Old Homestead Road GO Rail Service Georgina 407 Transitway Cook's Pollock Road Smith Boulevard Rural Links Bay

Expressway Bus Service Glenwoods Avenue GTA West Corridor Concept Old Shiloh Road Keswick Subway Extension McCowan Road Ravenshoe Road Rapid Transit Corridor Transit Priority Network Boag Road TTC Rapid Transit LEGEND Recommended New Corridor Multi-Lane Provincial Highway Leslie Street Note: Provincial Highway

EastTownline Road The proposed alignment and location of specific Kennedy Road

projects remains conceptual at this time. These Highway 48 Railway Municipal Boundary concepts remain subject to review and confirmation   Town of Queensville Sideroad through the applicable environmental assessment Regional Boundary process established under the Environmental East Gwillimbury Yo Lake * Assessment Act. ng Queensville e Doane Road

S Holland River * t r e Landing e Mount Town or Village t Mount Albert Road Albert Sharon Urban Area

Herald Road

Simcoe County Centre Street Highway 9 Davis Drive 2nd Concession Road Produced by: BathurstStreet Town of Infrastructure Planning Schomberg Planning and Development Services Department 19th Sideroad Mulock Drive Vivian Road © Copyright, The Regional Municipality of York, October, 2009 Peel Region © Copyright, The Regional Municipalities of Durham Newmarket and Peel, County of Simcoe, City of Toronto * Includes © Queen’s Printer for Ontario 2003-2009

Peel Region 18th Sideroad

Dufferin Street McCowan Road

Keele Street

4 0 Ballantrae 17th Sideroad 4 Aurora Road

Warden Avenue

7th Concession Yonge Street h

g i Vandorf Sideroad York/DurhamLine Township Town of H

JaneStreet of King Highway 400 Aurora Town of Weston Road

15th Sideroad Bloomington Road Whitchurch-

Oak Ridges 10th Concession King City Stouffville Nobleton King Road Bethesda Sideroad Ninth Line

Highway 48 Town of Durham Region King Vaughan Road Richmond Stouffville Road Stouffville Highway 27 Hill Kirby Road 19th Avenue

Teston Road Kleinburg Kipling Avenue Elgin Mills Road East

Reesor Road

Dufferin Street BathurstStreet Keele Street

Yonge Street

City of Major Mackenzie Drive West Leslie Street Major Mackenzie Drive East 1

Warden Avenue Town of Woodbine Avenue Vaughan Maple BayviewAvenue Kennedy Road Rutherford Road 16th Avenue Markham Line York/Durham

Markham i Unionville 3 g Woodbridge 2 h w Highway 7 a Langstaff Road

Highway 7 Pine Valley Drive Thornhill 14th Avenue John Street Concord Milliken 1 Steeles Avenue West McCowan Road Steeles Avenue East

01 2 4 6 Kilometers

Footnotes: 1) Warden Avenue / McCowan Road N/S Rapid Transit Corridor City of Toronto 2) Bathurst Street / Dufferin Street N/S Rapid Transit Corridor 3) Study of Sustainable Travel Choices in Markham

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YORK REGION 2031 ROAD NETWORK Lake Simcoe Fox Island Georgina Island Road Network Improvements Snake Island Jog Elimination

New or Improved Highway Interchange Grade Separation

Special Study Area (see footnote) Sutton Highway 48 Anchor Hub / Regional Centre Highway 404 Pefferlaw New Local/Regional Road

CivicCentre Road Arterial Road Improvement for Capacity Woodbine Avenue Town of Arterial Road Improvement to 6 lanes Old Homestead Road Road improvements to support Transit Georgina New Provincial Road Cook's Pollock Road Smith Boulevard Bay GTA West Corridor Concept Provincial Road Improvement Glenwoods Avenue Recommended New Corridor

Old Shiloh Road Note: Keswick The proposed alignment and location of specific projects McCowan Road Ravenshoe Road remains conceptual at this time. These concepts remain subject to review and confirmation through the applicable environmental assessment process established under the Boag Road Environmental Assessment Act. LEGEND Town of Multi-Lane Provincial Highway Road projects identified are for capacity improvements Leslie Street only and do not reflect reconstruction projects in the Provincial Highway

East Gwillimbury EastTownline Road Region's DC-Bylaw or 10-Year Roads Construction Plan. Kennedy Road

Highway 48 Railway Municipal Boundary Queensville Sideroad    Regional Boundary

Yo Lake * ng Queensville e Doane Road

S Holland River * t r e Landing e Mount Town or Village t Mount Albert Road Albert Sharon Urban Area

Herald Road

Peel Region 18th Sideroad

Dufferin Street McCowan Road

Keele Street

4 0 Ballantrae 17th Sideroad 4 Aurora Road

Warden Avenue

3 w

7th Concession Yonge Street h

g i Vandorf Sideroad York/DurhamLine Township Town of H

JaneStreet Town of of King Highway 400 Aurora Weston Road 15th Sideroad Bloomington Road Whitchurch-

Oak Ridges Stouffville 10th Concession King City Nobleton King Road Bethesda Sideroad Ninth Line

Highway 48 Town of Durham Region King Vaughan Road Richmond Stouffville Road Stouffville Highway 27 Hill Kirby Road 3 19th Avenue

Teston Road Kleinburg Kipling Avenue Elgin Mills Road East

Reesor Road

Dufferin Street BathurstStreet Keele Street

Yonge Street

City of Major Mackenzie Drive West Leslie Street Major Mackenzie Drive East 1

Warden Avenue Town of Woodbine Avenue Vaughan Maple BayviewAvenue Kennedy Road Rutherford Road 16th Avenue Markham Line York/Durham

Markham i Unionville g Woodbridge

h w Highway 7 a Langstaff Road 2 y

Highway 7 Pine Valley Drive Thornhill 14th Avenue John Street Concord 4 Milliken

Steeles Avenue West McCowan Road Steeles Avenue East

01 2 4 6 Kilometers Footnotes: 1) Road improvements for potential Pickering Airport 2) Langstaff Road Missing Link Transportation Needs Study City of Toronto 3) East-west mid-York Transportation Needs Study 4) Highway 404 Interchange Study at John Street / 14th Avenue

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     ●●                        ●●              ●●                     ●●                                            ●●               ●●                 11

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       ●●                         ●●                         ●●                            ●●            

           ●●                          ●●                       13

accessible        14

                                                                                                                     

                                                                                                                           

                           

            

■■             

■■                      

■■        Mayor Regional Councillor Regional Councillor Regional Councillor Regional Councillor Mayor Frank Scarpitti Jack Heath Jim Jones Gordon Landon Joseph Virgilio David Barrow Town of Markham Town of Markham Town of Markham Town of Markham Town of Markham Town of Richmond Hill

Mayor Chairman & CEO Regional Councillor Linda D. Jackson Bill Fisch Brenda Hogg City of Vaughan Town of Richmond Hill      

                                          

             Regional Councillor Regional Councillor Joyce Frustaglio             Vito Spatafora City of Vaughan             Town of Richmond Hill    

                                                            

Regional Councillor                 Mayor Mario Ferri Tony Van Bynen City of Vaughan               Town of Newmarket             

Regional Councillor Regional Councillor Gino Rosati John Taylor City of Vaughan Town of Newmarket

Mayor Regional Councillor Mayor Mayor Mayor Mayor Robert Grossi Danny Wheeler Phyllis M. Morris Wayne Emmerson James Young Margaret Black Town of Georgina Town of Georgina Town of Aurora Town of Whitchurch-Stouffville Town of East Gwillimbury Township of King

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