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The Highway 401RT: Essential The Highway 401RT: Essential. Urgent. Affordable. Why a 401RT? 1 Current rapid transit plans will not generate enough modal shifts to transit to stop increases in road congestion or greenhouse gas emissions. By 2051, road congestion will not have been reduced. 2 The functionality of the Highway 401 corridor in Toronto is at risk. The 401 will not be able to accommodate much more travel demand growth resulting from population and job growth. 3 Trips to, from and within northern Toronto, including cross-boundary trips, are poorly served by rapid transit. A 401RT rescues transportation in northern Toronto. 4 The Eglinton Crosstown LRT is too far south in Toronto to be useful to most travelers whose trip origins or destinations are in the northern half of Toronto. 5 The 401RT is highly affordable. Economic, transportation, environmental, social and household benefits exceed the costs of building and operating the 401RT. 6 An extension of the Ontario Line to the 401RT is essential to avoid further overcrowding of the Yonge Street subway, and to reduce congestion on the Don Valley Parkway. 7 The 401RT and an Ontario Line extension northward from the Eglinton LRT are essential if overall road traffic congestion in Toronto is to be reduced. 8 Mass transit is essential to the effort to fight climate change. The urgency of reducing greenhouse gas emissions is emphasized in warnings about drastic and permanent damage to earth's climate and all life forms. Highway 401 File: 8x14 401RT Map April 2021 Access York Yonge Subway GO/RER Transit improvement to University Extension - York University from Finch to Hwy. 7 The 401RT and Ontario Line Current + approved Toronto subways across Toronto LRTs under construction Extension: Improved access to/from Markham. 401RT: Surface segments Finch West LRT Finch 401RT: Up to 10 new North- 401RT: 30 Finch 401RT: Tunneled/elevated segments West South rapid transit 401RT + N-S Buses + Ontario Line Extension: Industrial area access & minutes to connections created. At 205 million new transit trips per year by development potential Yonge Street New rapid transit intersects least 25 new N-S bus increase. connections are created. Durham Transit Potential for hi-density development Modal shifts: 401 gridlock is avoided. Local roads less Spadina ridership above, at or near 401RT stations congested. 401RT ridership absorbs 401 travel demand. Subway Sheppard Oriole Don Sheppard East LRT or Access to/from Malvern Segment between Sheppard- Subway GO Mills subway not needed. community improves. Pickering Town Woodbine GO and Kipling Yonge Sheppard may be elevated or at grade. Victoria Agincourt East Morningside Attendance at Metro Centre Bayview Markham- Neilson High density urban development Leslie Park North GO (relocated) -UTSC Toronto Zoo increases. Woodbine promoted at/near each 401RT station. Centennial Whites 401RT-GO Link at Hwy GO/Hwy 27 Kipling- Road 27: Access to/from Belfield 401 401 401 Meadowvale Brimley 401RT Brampton is improved. 401 Weston 401 401 401 Bathurst Warden Kennedy Scarborough - Zoo Airport Martin Centre Student/worker access to UTSC Islington Rd. Jane Keele Dufferin York Mills + & Cent.Coll. greatly improved. Road Grove Port 401R DVP Transfer PICKERING 401RT: 30 Union Pearson Keele bridge Barrie Yorkdale minutes to Terminal Western industrial 401RT reconstructed. Ontario Line Ontario Line extension 401RT boosts area is revitalized. GO Yonge Scarborough Subway Yonge Street Subwa diverts 401RT users from Social isolation reduced as Automobile congestion at North Don Mills- Yonge Subway. Don Lawrence ridership. Traffic on many city East 401RT boosts access to Pearson is resolved. Major Extension Lawrence Valley Pkwy is rescued destinations across Toronto. improvements to transit 401RT avoids highway streets is significantly from gridlock. Scarborough access is created. congestion in airport reduced. Subway industrial area. 401RT and Eglinton 3+ new connections LRT cut Jane LRT to rapid transit are Barber Eglinton East LRT ridership demand ridership demand. created. Green Corporate area drops. LRT to Malvern not needed. Dixie revitalized. Kennedy- Busway integrated with Mississauga Jane Mt. Kennedy Britannia West Dennis Cedarvale Eglinton Crosstown LRT Station Transitway: Replaces Eglinton W LRT Science Add: Brimley- GHG emissions are cut by MACC 401RT diverts many Approx. 3,400 Centre Danforth Rd Stn. 470,000 tons per year. Hurontario EWLRT users. transit jobs are Inequities in Major financial and social created. transit access are LRT benefit to households no reduced for all longer driving each day. communities. Mississauga GO Transit ridership Transitway Enhanced Kipling bus to Pearson increases. 401RT Ridership Estimate 34,500,000 New 401RT trips 2041 by residents: modal shifts Dundas West by auto driver and psngr (per O-D matrix). Bloor Subway Kipling 620,000 Non-resident trips to/from 401RT (travelers living CITY outside the 60 Ward survey area). CENTRE Pape Danforth Subway MISSISSAUGA INFRASTRUCTURE COSTS 23,000,000 New urban development at/near/above 26 401RT Segments: Kilometres Billion$$ 401RT stations; @ higher transit % share. Pickering Town Ctr to Scarborough Ctr. 15.8 3,400 3,439 Dufferin- King - 4,010,000 Estimated effects of GO/401RT intersects. Bathurst Scarborough Ctr. To Victoria Park N. 5.2 1,800 1,77384,000,000 Add'l. Hwy 401 congestion shift 2041 to 2051 King Ontario 401RT Station at Hwy 401 Victoria Park N to Don Mills Stn. 2 500 548 (Hwy unable to carry 50% of demand growth). Line Existing Sheppard Subway 5.4 100 484,170,000 Additional modal shift re Pearson airport. Intersecting Buses stop on bridges Yonge Subway to Spadina-York Subway 4.4 1,300 1,2897,520,000 Driving cost Increases (tolls, energy, mtce, etc). Ontario Spadina-York Sbwy to Pearson Terminal 14.7 6,100 6,113 Place - CNE 157,820,000 TOTAL - New TTC Riders using 401RT by 2051 arterial roadway or at underpasses Pearson to Hurontario Street 11.6 3,100 3,127 Shuttle Ontario (King Street 47,000,000 Bus component new ridership - non-401RT users Place alignment is Other costs (incl. 4km to Manit. Yards) 1,200 1,175204,820,000 most effective.) 59.1 17,500 205,000,000 Rounded Collector Lanes Express Lanes 401RT Express Lanes Collector Lanes Ontario Line: Eglinton to Shappard East 7.5 3,800 12,000,000 Transfers from nearby TTC routes (FYI only) 66.6 21,300 217,000,000 Estimated total 401RT users by 2051 (Centre platform) Excludes direct effects of the planned/proposed Ontario Line Note: A 401RT makes four planned LRTs unnecessary: Jane, Sheppard East, Eglinton West extension to Pearson, Eglinton East extension to UTSC and Malvern. Up to $7.9 billion in capital costs can be saved. Produced by John Stillich. Contact him at 416-400-0553, or at [email protected]. More information can be found at www.401rt.ca..
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