Welcome to the first

Public Open House

Please visit each station to:

LEARN DISCOVER

Learn about the history of . Discover how we live, work, play and How has our city changed? travel in Mississauga today. What is the biggest change you’ve seen? How do you live and travel here?

SHARE DISCUSS

Tell us about your moves in Mississauga. Tell us how Mississauga Moves can Highlight places that deserve special help us prepare for the future. attention.

1 What is Mississauga Moves?

Mississauga Moves is our chance to plan together for the future of travel on our roads, sidewalks, trails and transit. Through this study we will try to answer this key question: How will we get around in the next 25 years? We are just getting started. Your participation throughout this project is crucial to its success.

PHASE 1 PHASE 2 PHASE 3

Where are we now? Where do we want to be in How will we get there? 2017 the future? 2018 2017 - 2018

WE ARE HERE

This plan will be brought to Council for approval. Once approved, it will:

Serve as a policy Guide the City’s investment Cover the period from framework and in and stewardship now to 2041 action plan of transportation infrastructure and services

2 How has Mississauga changed?

STN 1: LEARN

Mississauga has historically grown outwards, with roads and rail guiding the way. Its urban form and key transportation infrastructure growth is shown below:

1950S 1970S

Legend Legend Freeway Freeway

Urban area Urban area ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! GO Rail Line GO Rail Line

1990S 2010S

Legend Legend Freeway Freeway

Urban area Urban area ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! GO Rail Line GO Rail Line

Now, we are growing up, not out. Our transportation infrastructure must help support and guide this growth.

3 In 1937, the City of examined sites for an airport to serve Toronto and the surrounding area. In additi on to the existi ng airport on the Toronto Islands, it selected an additi onal site near the community of Malton as an auxiliary facility, and scheduled fl ights started in 1939. During World War II, it was one of many Canadian airports that provided training to aircrews from across the commonwealth. The post-war period brought steady increase in passenger numbers and 152 Applewood Acres established - one of the earliest 164 P expansion of passenger faciliti es. The airport was bought by the federal modern subdivisions in present-day Mississauga 105 Toronto and York Radial Railway extends Airport (old) Terminal 1 opens government in 1958, who re-named it aft er Lester B. Pearson in 1984, P 168 Final segment of Hwy 401 opens, giving Mississauga and transferred to the GTAA in 1996. The GTAA operates the airport direct freeway access to Quebec-Montreal corridor on a commercial basis, with no taxpayer funding. However, its board 153 QEW interchange at Dixie Rd opens, Populati on of what is of directors includes members chosen by surrounding municipaliti es, starti ng conversion of QEW to freeway 166 117 Service is provided between Toronto 1855 Great Western Railway opens Port Credit the Province, and the federal government. This helps balance commercial now Mississauga passes 100,000 and via Cooksville by railway 1818 S stati on; subsequently re-located to current site 135 S imperati ve with the wider socio-economic desires for the airport. 16 Mississauga Transit Systems name, a combinati on of “Huron” and service between starts service using private contractors “”, being a part of a route from 155 Arrow Bus Lines starts providing P 167 University of Toronto the Lake Ontario to Lake Huron. The P 1856 opens original 122 Streetcar route between Port Branch ends; replaced 137 City of Toronto selects Malton as site Mississauga opens, having opened latt er lake was named for the Huron Malton stati on (relocated in 1974) Credit and Toronto taken over by Hydro- for an airport to serve Toronto; the land is 14 Malton Airport 165 people, a local First Nati ons group Electric Railways, part of Ontario Hydro provided by TTC purchased by the Toronto Harbour Commission passenger terminal re-built

176 R 131 The Toronto 15 Hwy 401 opens 167 GO Transit starts commuter through what is now Mississauga S 12 1858 S to Guelph railway 140 142 Malton Airport serves experiment, with two-way all-day R between Hamilton, Oakville, Port as a Flying School for aircrew from service along what is now the S 1 Credit and Toronto, taking 2-3 hours Canada and the Commonwealth 158 City of Toronto sells Malton 120 Cott ages spring up along QEW; Lakeshore 168 Town of Mississauga established by amalgamati ng Airport to Transport Canada; subsequently R Cooksville, Clarkson, Dixie, Erindale, Lakeview, Lorne Park, re-named “Toronto Internati onal Airport” 1853 Great Western Railway opens Meadowvale Village, Malton, and Sheridan Clarkson stati on as “Clarkson’s Corner” 1950s urban area and transport infrastructure 13 QEW extended to Niagara 117 Lakeshore Rd is paved with concrete as 135 QEW opens between part of long-distance route, the fi rst in Ontario R Hurontario St (Hwy 10) 1850 to 1870 P off ering two lanes in either 138 Malton Airport opens; fi rst industry; by 1870, litt le was exported directi on with limited access scheduled fl ights start in 1939 and most lumber was for local use

137 As the suburban municipaliti es around Toronto expanded from the 1950s onwards, the provincial government came to the realisati on that adding road capacity into downtown Toronto could not The Queen Elizabeth Way (QEW) was North America’s fi rst inter-city divided conti nue indefi nitely. The Gardiner Expressway and Don Valley Parkway were completed by 1966 highway, and subsequently the fi rst of many freeways to serve Mississauga. and public oppositi on to additi onal new freeways through the existi ng urban area was growing. Residenti al development along Lake Ontario gave rise to increasing congesti on Separately, the Canadian Nati onal Railway was poised to move its yard operati ons from south of Union stati on in downtown Toronto a new yard in Vaughan, freeing up capacity on the rail network. Timeline classifi cati on on the various east-west roads that parallel the QEW corridor. The “Middle Road” was initi ally widened in 1931, and conversion to a divided highway began GO Transit was started as an experimental service, with hourly trains running from Pickering via in 1934. Two years aft er the route from Toronto to Niagara was completed, it Union to Oakville (with rush-hour service to Hamilton), and using existi ng stati ons. The idea that was re-named the Queen Elizabeth Way. oundar and se Populati on commuters would choose to drive to a rail stati on and then board a train (rather than drive all the Legend way) was a novel one. The bare-bones operati on proved an enormous success, and the original The QEW was the prototype for a patt ern that occurred in Mississauga and Freeway beyond: development creates congesti on on local roads; road capacity is service conti nues as the Lakeshore corridor to this day. Mississauga also benefi ted from service Urban area ubli ransit ! ! ! ! ! ! extensions to Georgetown (in 1978) and Milton (in 1981) – the latt er using brand-new stati ons. GO’s oads irport increased; new road capacity spurs additi onal development. Freeways serving ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! all odes ! ! ! ! ! ! Mississauga have been created or expanded in every decade since the QEW GO Rail Line services have reduced the pressures on the freeway network between Mississauga and downtown conversion to a freeway with grade-separated interchanges in the 1950s. Toronto, and probably prevented the network from being more expansive.

Constructi on on the Square One Shopping Centre started in 1969, opening four year later in 1973. Like many malls of this era, its locati on opti mized easy car access rather than proximity to existi ng urban development.

Car access was further improved by the opening of Hwy 177 formed to take 403 alongside the mall by 1982. At the ti me of opening, over CN’s passenger rail operati ons the surrounding land was used for agriculture, and Mississauga’s urban area didn’t reach the mall unti l the late 1970s. Nevertheless, Mississauga’s City Centre Plan in 178 Hwy 410 opens, following the 1979 established the area around the mall as the focus for R downtown development. This decision to capitalize on the freeway standards merits of new suburban development rather than intensify 2017 its fi rst Transportati on Master Plan a historical urban core sets Mississauga apart from many 2000 GO Transit starts express bus service along Hwy 407, linking municipaliti es. Mississauga with Oakville, York University and southern York Region 178 VIA takes over CP’s 14 GTA Weekly transit pass launched, passenger rail operati ons 181 GO Transit starts service to Milton to alleviate 18 Mississauga Transit introduces air conditi oning providing inter-municipal travellers with a 2010 Mississauga Transit 173 Square One Shopping Centre 2001 Hwy 407 extended pressure on and Hwy 401, with stops on its buses - the fi rst transit agency in Canada to do so simpler alternati ve to multi ple monthly passes re-named “MiWay” opens as the largest shopping mall in 17 P at Cooksville, Erindale, Streetsville, and Meadowvale 174 City of Mississauga formed with Toronto Mississauga students, providing Canada; it remains the largest in Ontario 2004 VIA’s “Internati onal Limited” amalgamati on of Townships of Port 14 Urban Design Vision for Downtown unlimited travel as part of their tuiti on fees service from Toronto to Chicago via 2010 Land between Hwy 407 and Ninth S 17 Mississauga prioriti zes pedestrians 182 Hwy 403 completed through Mississauga (mostly with same boundaries as today) results in a near total evacuati on of Milton GO line mid-day 173 P the area due to a massive explosion 10 service starts between Union 15 Populati on of Mississauga transferred to in-house operati ons and chemical spill 18 Hwy 407 sold to 2004 S 182 VIA Rail revives “Internati onal Limited” passes 500,000 2010 First Cycling Master Plan private operator service from Toronto to Chicago via Malton “Shift ing Gears for a Healthier City” Whats net?

172 P 176 Populati on of Mississauga passes 250,000 185 Hwy 401 in Mississauga converted to 11 P 17 Hwy 407 opens from Hwy 401 2002 P wwwississaugaoesa Airport Terminal 2 opens collector-express system east of Hwy 410 Airport Terminal 3 opens Airport Terminal 1 opens 2007 Lisgar GO stati on opens 2015 Funding for Hurontario to relieve pressure on space- LRT announced 176 TTC’s service between 1970s urban area and transport infrastructure 1990s urban area and transport infrastructure 2010s urban area and transport infrastructure constrained Meadowvale P 184 Lester B. Pearson Internati onal 16 Milton GO line mid- replaced by Mississauga Transit service Airport acquires its current name 17 P 2015 opens Hurontario & Burnhamthorpe 2007 P 174 GO Transit starts service to Georgetown (now the (near Square One Shopping Airport Terminal 2 closes ), including a stati on in Malton; Mississauga Centre) as the focus for downtown 182 Arti culated (a.k.a. “bendy) 16 Greater Toronto Airports 2014 First porti on of Transit takes over local transit from private operators development buses used by Mississauga Transit Authority assumes responsibility opens (the fi rst agency in Ontario to do so) for running Pearson Airport

2014 Populati on of Mississauga passes 750,000

As Mississauga’s urban area conti nued to expand, Square One regional bus services, facilitati ng travel by non-auto modes. Today, Pearson Airport is the Canada’s Zoning changes resulted in a series of towers in the late busiest airport, with roughly equal numbers 2000s/early 2010s, culminati ng 2012’s Absolute World of business and leisure travellers. It also (popularly known as the “Marilyn Monroe” tower because of

Legend its disti ncti ve curvy shape). Legend Legend internati onal passengers of any airport in Freeway Freeway Freeway North America. The airport and surrounding The trend away from auto travel will conti nue with the Urban area Urban area Urban area lands are a major employment centre for ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! arrival Hurontario LRT. This will also support additi onal ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! Mississauga and the GTHA, and it forms a GO Rail Line intensifi cati on – a far cry from a shopping mall surrounded by GO Rail Line GO Rail Line key part of the GTHA’s transport network. parking and fi elds.

4 For more informati on visit: wwwsteerdaiesgleaeo When did you arrive in Mississauga? STN 1: LEARN

Please place a sticker in the applicable box:

BEFORE 1960 1960 - 1970 1970 - 1980 1980 - 1990 1990 - 2000 AFTER 2000

5 What is the biggest change you have seen in Mississauga? STN 1: LEARN

Please place a post-it note with your comments:

6 Where do we live and work?

STN 2: DISCOVER

We live in many different types of homes, and attract workers from throughout the region.

WHERE DO WE LIVE? WHERE DO WE WORK?

Source: City of Mississauga, 2017 Source: City of Mississauga, 2017

250 DETACHED OR

SEMI-DETACHED Thousand 200 125,000 (54%) APARTMENTS 69,800 (30%) 150

100

50 NUMBER OF EMPLOYEES OF NUMBER

0 TOWNHOUSES 1991 1996 2001 2006 2011 35,100 (16%) YEAR Work in Mississauga, live elsewhere Live and work in Mississauga Live in Mississauga, work elsewhere Source: City of Mississauga Official Plan, 2009 Source: Transportation Tomorrow Survey, 2011

Almost half of Mississauga More people travel into Mississauga households live in apartments or for work than travel out to work. townhouses.

7 How and why do we travel?

STN 2: DISCOVER

We travel everyday – to go to work and school, to go shopping, to go to our doctor, to visit friends and family, and, of course, to return home.

HOW DO WE TRAVEL?

WALKING OR AUTO 2,784,000 trips CYCLING, 5%

PUBLIC TRANSPORT, 8% PUBLIC TRANSPORT 256,000 trips

WALKING OR CYCLING 160,000 trips AUTO, 87% 0 0.5 1 1.5 2 2.5 Million NUMBER OF WEEKDAY TRIPS

Source: Transportation Tomorrow Survey, 2011 Source: Transportation Tomorrow Survey, 2011

There are over 3 million daily trips in Most of those trips use an automobile, Mississauga. with 13% using other modes.

WHY DO WE TRAVEL?

2 Million

1.5 1,780,000

1 1,050,000

0.5

370,000 0 NUMBER OFWEEKDAY TRIPS OFWEEKDAY NUMBER TRIPS TO/FROM TRIPS TO/FROM TRIPS FOR OTHER PURPOSES SCHOOL WORK (E.G. TO GO SHOPPING)

Source: Transportation Tomorrow Survey, 2011

We make fewer trips for work or school than we do for other reasons, like shopping or visiting friends and family.

8 Where do you live?

STN 2: DISCOVER

Please place a sticker where applicable:

Legend:

HIGH ORDER TRANSIT KITCHENER GO LAKESHORE WEST GO MILTON GO UP EXPRESS PARKS FREEWAYS MAJOR ROADS MINOR ROADS AIRPORT

BRAMPTON OR HALTON REGION TORONTO OTHER CALEDON

9 How do you get around Mississauga? STN 2: DISCOVER

Please place a sticker to indicate the way you travel for different types of trips:

TO WORK TO SCHOOL TO GO SHOPPING TO SOCIALIZE TO GO OUT AT NIGHT

Legend:

BY CAR

ON TRANSIT

CYCLING OR WALKING

10 What is Mississauga like? STN 3: SHARE

HIGHEST PERCENTAGE OF WALKING TRIPS IN MISSISSAUGA (18% OF TRIPS)

MISSISSAUGA’S NEWEST GO STATION (OPENED IN 2007)

MAJOR GTHA SPORTS AND CANADA’S BUSIEST AIRPORT ENTERTAINMENT COMPLEX (44 MILLION PASSENGERS/DAY)

BUSIEST SECTION OF HIGHWAY IN MISSISSAUGA MISSISSAUGA’S LARGEST SECONDARY SCHOOL (12,000 VEHICLES PER HOUR IN PEAK) (2,000+ STUDENTS)

ONTARIO’S LARGEST SHOPPING CENTRE (360+ STORES AND 2.2 MILLION SQ FT) GO TRANSIT’S 2ND BUSIEST BUS TERMINAL

LARGEST HOSPITAL IN MISSISSAUGA (751 BEDS) HIGHEST PERCENTAGE OF CYCLING TRIPS IN MISSISSAUGA (3.2% OF TRIPS)

OLDEST FREEWAY IN ONTARIO (OPENED IN 1935)

HIGHEST PERCENTAGE OF TRANSIT TRIPS IN MISSISSAUGA (39% OF TRIPS) Legend:

HIGH ORDER TRANSIT KITCHENER GO LAKESHORE WEST GO BUSIEST GO STATION IN MILTON GO MISSISSAUGA UP EXPRESS (5,800 BOARDINGS/DAY) PARKS FREEWAYS MAJOR ROADS MINOR ROADS AIRPORT

11 What is Mississauga like for you? STN 3: SHARE

Think about places you visit regularly. Please place a sticker for places that are: Legend:

EASY FOR YOU TO GET TO

HARD FOR YOU TO GET TO

POINTS ON YOUR ROUTE THAT ARE A CHALLENGE

Legend:

HIGH ORDER TRANSIT KITCHENER GO LAKESHORE WEST GO MILTON GO UP EXPRESS PARKS FREEWAYS MAJOR ROADS MINOR ROADS AIRPORT

12 What does the future hold?

STN 4: DISCUSS

Our times are changing:

1 Our work patterns 4 We are shopping are changing: 15% of more online, us work at home or increasing home outside a usual place deliveries.Between of work. 2011 and 2016, online purchases tripled in Canada.

2 We are a diverse 5 Poverty is a growing and evolving concern with city. Half of all the gap between Mississauga rich and poor residents’ first neighbourhoods language is not growing across our English. region.

3 Our communities are aging. By 2031, it’s expected that one in three Mississauga residents will be over the age of 55.

The way we travel will change too:

A Traffic is a concern for C Apps allow us to all of us. Throughout share cars, hail rides, the GTHA, congestion and plan trips on is costing us almost transit, by bike, or on $4 billion a year. foot.

B We are switching D New vehicle technology away from cars to like electric cars and transit, cycling, and self driving vehicles walking. Across the promise an entirely GTHA there are over different way to travel. 20 major transit projects in delivery.

13 How do you want to see Mississauga Move in the future? STN 4: DISCUSS

Please place a post-it note with your comments:

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