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Bus Rapid Transit Service Breaks Ground in Mississauga
No. H0xx/10 For release August 20, 2010 BUS RAPID TRANSIT SERVICE BREAKS GROUND IN MISSISSAUGA MISSISSAUGA, ONTARIO — Bob Dechert, Member of Parliament, Mississauga-Erindale, the Honourable Kathleen Wynne, Ontario’s Transportation Minister, Her Worship Hazel McCallion, Mayor of Mississauga and Gary McNeil, GO Transit Managing Director participated in a groundbreaking ceremony today to mark the start of construction of the Mississauga Bus Rapid Transit (BRT) corridor. This project, which is expected to be completed in spring 2013, will improve local and inter-regional bus operations across the City of Mississauga. It involves constructing an 11-kilometre east-west busway across the City of Mississauga between Winston Churchill Boulevard and Renforth Drive in the City of Toronto and a total of 12 stations along the route with related commuter facilities. “Investments in public transit creates jobs and boosts the Canadian economy,” said MP Dechert. “This rapid transit system will provide commuters in Mississauga with a more efficient transit option, while cutting commute times and taking more cars off the road.” “This is great news for Mississauga residents,” said Ontario Transportation Minister Kathleen Wynne. “When the new bus rapid transit line is finished, more commuters will be able to leave their cars at home and take public transit. Investing in public transit is part of the McGuinty government’s Open Ontario plan. Better public transit means a better quality of life for Ontario families.” (TBC) “We are doing everything we can to make Mississauga a transit-oriented city and show our commitment to ensure we meet the needs of residents and businesses,” said Mayor Hazel McCallion. -
Profile of Sharon Doyle.Indd
the same brush PROFILE OF SHARON DOYLE, MANAGER, MOBILITY PLUS AT YORK REGION TRANSIT (YRT) Interview location: Scaddabush Restaurant and on YRT in York Region, Ontario, Canada In one word, she describes herself as “Passionate.” By Laura Lee Huttenbach Sharon Doyle is on the phone with the inspector when I arrive at the Richmond Hill bus terminal in York Region, a municipality to the north of Toronto. Next to Sharon on the platform is a man named Michael, who uses a wheelchair. Michael is confused. He can’t tell Sharon exact- ly how he got to the station, and he can’t tell her exactly where he wants to go. He’d tried to board a GO (Gov- ernment of Ontario) bus going to the airport, but was told the bus wasn’t wheelchair accessible. Additional- ly, Michael made it clear he had no flight to catch. With stubble, wearing stained grey sweatpants and a navy hoodie, Michael looks like he may not have showered for a few days. Most people watching the scene edge away from him on the platform, but Sharon, Manager of Mobility Plus for Sharon Doyle, in front of the York fleet, in 2016. (Photo credit Laura Lee Huttenbach.) York Regional Transit (YRT), is close. People Who Move People: a series initiated and funded by 1 need sub headline “I just can’t leave him here all day,” she says to the inspector, Miles, on her phone. She turns to me. “I’m sorry,” she says. “Let me just take care of this, and we can head to lunch.” Michael is looking me up and down. -
Centres and Corridors Update
The Regional Municipality of York Committee of the Whole Planning and Economic Development April 8, 2021 Report of the Commissioner of Corporate Services and Chief Planner 2020 Regional Centres and Corridors Update 1. Recommendations 1. The Regional Clerk forward this report to the Minister of Municipal Affairs and Housing and York Region Members of Federal and Provincial Parliament as an example of the Region’s continued commitment to transit-oriented development within Regional Centres and Corridors. 2. Council continue to seek further Federal and Provincial funding and assistance to provide critical infrastructure for the Yonge North Subway Extension and completion of the Viva Rapid Transit network, required to support levels of growth and intensification within Regional Centres and Corridors to implement Provincial Growth Plan forecasts. 3. The Regional Clerk forward this report to the local municipalities for information. 2. Summary This report provides an annual update of development activity, transit investments and programs that occurred within Regional Centres and Corridors in 2020. It identifies ongoing trends, impacts of COVID-19 and future initiatives that continue to drive the Region’s city building initiatives forward supporting Council’s commitment to planning for complete communities. Key Points: Regional Centres and Corridors include 58 out of 78 Council endorsed Major Transit Station Areas (MTSA’s) Residential construction activity in Centres and Corridors remained robust during the pandemic Despite COVID-19 restrictions, -
2019 Regional Centres and Corridors Update 1. Recommendations
The Regional Municipality of York Committee of the Whole Planning and Economic Development June 11, 2020 Report of the Commissioner of Corporate Services and Chief Planner 2019 Regional Centres and Corridors Update 1. Recommendations 1. The Regional Clerk forward this report to the Provincial Minister of Municipal Affairs and Housing and York Region Members of Federal and Provincial Parliament as an example of the Region’s continued commitment to focusing on transit-oriented development within Regional Centres and Corridors and to seek further Federal and Provincial assistance to provide critical infrastructure for the Yonge North Subway Extension and completion of the Viva Rapid Transit network. 2. Regional Council request the Province to introduce legislation similar to Bill 171, the “Building Transit Faster Act”, to assist in expediting approval of key infrastructure, such as the Upper York Sewage Solution to fully realize planned growth in Newmarket, Aurora and East Gwillimbury, including the applicable Centres and Corridors in these municipalities. 3. The Regional Clerk forward this report to local municipalities for information. 2. Summary This report provides an annual update of development activity, infrastructure investments and programs that occurred within the Regional Centres and Corridors in 2019. It identifies ongoing and future initiatives that continue to drive the Region’s city building initiatives forward as a result of Council’s commitment to planning for complete communities. Key Points: Accommodating growth through -
Brampton Queen Street – York Region Highway 7 BRT Initial Business Case October 2020
Brampton Queen Street – York Region Highway 7 BRT Initial Business Case October 2020 Brampton Queen Street – York Region Highway 7 BRT Initial Business Case October 2020 Contents The Need for BRT 1 The Brampton Queen Street – York Region Highway 7 BRT Planning Study and Initial Business Case (IBC) 1 Transit Services options 2 Infrastructure Scenarios 3 Summary of Business Case Evaluation 4 Next Steps 8 Introduction 1 Decision History 2 Brampton Queen Street – York Region Highway 7 BRT Planning Study and Initial Business Case scope 2 The Case for Change 6 Project Study Area 7 Corridor Portrait 8 Policy portrait 8 Land use portrait 9 Socio-demographic portrait 10 Transportation portrait 11 Future Projects and Trends in Terms of Travel Demand 27 Future planned projects 27 Future Travel Patterns 30 Definition of Opportunity 32 vi Problem/Opportunity Key Drivers 32 The Case for BRT 33 Investment Options 34 BRT Scenario Evaluation Methods 35 Global approach 35 Evaluation methodology of the BRT scenarios with the Greater Golden Horseshoe Model 37 BRT Service Concept Scenarios 38 Service concept goals 38 Service Concept Scenarios 39 Service concept scenario evaluation 45 Recommendation of BRT service concept 61 Infrastructure Scenarios 64 General BRT design considerations 64 Queen Street – Highway 7 BRT infrastructure options 67 Strategic Case 92 Transportation 93 Transit user experience 98 Mobility choice 99 Quality of life 100 Shaping growth 100 vii Public health 100 Environmental health and air quality 101 Safety and connectivity 101 Active -
Rapid Transit Implementation Options
Report: E-11-021 REGION OF WATERLOO TRANSPORTATION AND ENVIRONMENTAL SERVICES Rapid Transit TO: Chair Jim Wideman and Members of Planning and Works Committee DATE: February 15, 2011 FILE CODE: A02-30/PW SUBJECT: RAPID TRANSIT IMPLEMENTATION OPTIONS RECOMMENDATIONS: For information. SUMMARY: The Region continues to plan for significant population and employment growth over the next two decades. To provide for this tremendous growth, the Region will have to either continue its pattern of outward growth or encourage greater intensification in existing developed areas. Recognizing this challenge, the Region began a Rapid Transit Environmental Assessment (EA) in 2006 to identify the best possible rapid transit system for Waterloo Region. As part of the EA, the Project Team evaluated a number of rapid transit technologies. Bus Rapid Transit (BRT) and Light Rail Transit (LRT) were short listed because they had the greatest potential to: • support the Region’s redevelopment and intensification objectives; • optimize the use of road and railway corridors to serve major destinations; and • be compatible with existing and planned built neighborhoods. In June 2009, Regional Council approved a Rapid Transit implementation plan subject to satisfactory Federal and Provincial funding. In 2010, the Provincial and Federal governments announced their funding commitments and staff commenced a review of the financial implications of the Rapid Transit plan. During the fall of 2010, concerns were raised about the affordability of the rapid transit project, specifically in terms of the Region’s contribution. Staff have been undertaking an objective review of project implementation options for Council’s consideration, in order to identify a rapid transit project that is affordable to the Region and provides best value to the community. -
Connect Long Island Suffolk County Bus Rapid Transit Feasibility Study
Connect Long Island Suffolk County Bus Rapid Transit Feasibility Study Prepared for Suffolk County Prepared by In Association with: Parsons Brinckerhoff B. Thayer Associates CJ2 Communication Strategies Final Report May 2014 The preparation of this report has been financed through the U.S. Department ofTransportation’s Federal Transit Administration and Federal Highway Administration. This document is disseminated under the sponsorship of the New York Metropolitan Transportation Council in the interest of information exchange. The contents of this report reflect the views of the authors who are responsible for the facts and accuracy of the data presented herein. The contents do not necessarily reflect the official views or policies of the Federal Transit Administration, Federal Highway Administration or the State of New York. This report does not constitute a standard, specification or regulation. Suffolk County Bus Rapid Transit Feasibility Study was funded through the New York Metropolitan Transportation Council SFY (2013-2014) Unified Planning Work Program project (Suffolk County BRT Study and PTSU13D00.H02). This report was funded through matching grants from the Federal Transit Administration and from the Federal Highway Administration. ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS SUFFOLK COUNTY DEPARTMENT SUFFOLK COUNTY DEPARTMENT Cover and inside cover image: OF ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT OF PUBLIC WORKS The rendering on the cover AND PLANNING depicts the Bus Rapid Transit Joanne Minieri Gilbert Anderson, P.E. station at Stony Brook University Deputy County Executive Commissioner as proposed by the Suffolk County and Commissioner Bus Rapid Transit Feasibility Garry Lenberger Study, including the Stony Brook Sarah Lansdale Transportation Division University Hospital expansion in Director of Planning Director of Transportation the background. -
Transit Needs and Opportunities
Final Report Transit Needs and Opportunities Background Paper for the Regional Transportation Plan Review Prepared for Metrolinx by IBI Group IBI GROUP FINAL REPORT TRANSIT NEEDS AND OPPORTUNITIES Prepared for Metrolinx Table of Contents Executive Summary ...................................................................................................................... 1 Transit in the Greater Toronto and Hamilton Area: a decade of progress ........................... 1 Future growth presents both challenges and opportunities for transit ................................. 1 Moving towards a region connected by rapid transit ............................................................ 2 Identifying needs and gaps ................................................................................................... 2 Matching needs to opportunities ........................................................................................... 3 1 Introduction ......................................................................................................................... 5 An Opportune Time to Review Transit in the GTHA ................................................ 5 Regional Transportation Plan Review Process ....................................................... 5 Regional Transportation Plan Goals and Objectives ............................................... 6 Organization of Report ............................................................................................. 8 2 Background ........................................................................................................................ -
Case Studies on Transit Oriented Development Around Bus Rapid Transit Systems in North America and Australia
Bus Rapid Transit and Transit Oriented Development: Case Studies on Transit Oriented Development Around Bus Rapid Transit Systems in North America and Australia April 2008 Breakthrough Technologies Institute 1100 H St N.W. Suite 800 Washington, D.C. 20005 Contents 1 Acknowledgements ......................................................................................................................................... - 3 - 2 Executive Summary ......................................................................................................................................... - 5 - 3 Introduction ..................................................................................................................................................... - 9 - 3.1 Purpose and Scope .................................................................................................................................. - 9 - 3.2 Methodology ........................................................................................................................................... - 9 - 3.3 Literature Review .................................................................................................................................. - 10 - 4 Brisbane, Australia ......................................................................................................................................... - 12 - 4.1 Land Use Planning in Southeast Queensland ........................................................................................ - 15 - 4.2 South -
The Same Brush PROFILE of SHARON DOYLE, MANAGER, MOBILITY PLUS at YORK REGION TRANSIT (YRT)
the same brush PROFILE OF SHARON DOYLE, MANAGER, MOBILITY PLUS AT YORK REGION TRANSIT (YRT) Interview location: Scaddabush Restaurant and on YRT in York Region, Ontario, Canada In one word, she describes herself as “Passionate.” By Laura Lee Huttenbach Sharon Doyle is on the phone with the inspector when I arrive at the Richmond Hill bus terminal in York Region, a municipality to the north of Toronto. Next to Sharon on the platform is a man named Michael, who uses a wheelchair. Michael is confused. He can’t tell Sharon exact- ly how he got to the station, and he can’t tell her exactly where he wants to go. He’d tried to board a GO (Gov- ernment of Ontario) bus going to the airport, but was told the bus wasn’t wheelchair accessible. Additional- ly, Michael made it clear he had no flight to catch. With stubble, wearing stained grey sweatpants and a navy hoodie, Michael looks like he may not have showered for a few days. Most people watching the scene edge away from him on the platform, but Sharon, Manager of Mobility Plus for Sharon Doyle, in front of the York fleet, in 2016. (Photo credit Laura Lee Huttenbach.) York Regional Transit (YRT), is close. People Who Move People: a series initiated and funded by 1 inclusion “I just can’t leave him here all day,” she says to the inspector, Miles, on her phone. She turns to me. “I’m sorry,” she says. “Let me just take care of this, and we can head to lunch.” Michael stares at me. -
2013 Transportation Fact Book
Transportation 2013 FactBook Chapter Three Public Transit Viva bus on Highway 7 at West Beaver Creek Road in the Town of Richmond Hill Transportation 2013 FactBook Public Transit Three Chapter 58 Transportation 2013 FactBook Public Transit System in York Region In recent years, York Region has focused Transportation on a more sustainable and balanced The 2009 update to the Master Plan transportation planning approach to allowed the Region to address accommodate population and employment future transportation needs in an efficient growth. The balance between road and and integrated manner, while meeting transit infrastructure was reflected in Provincial and Regional policies that support the 2002 Transportation Master Plan that sustainable development. York Region’s Transportation Master Plan refocused the transportation system on process has transit. Some of the transit initiatives include: resulted in a set of progressive transit, roadway and policy recommendations • Base, local and express services that support the Region’s vision of a more operated by York Region Transit (YRT/ sustainable transportation system. Viva), Brampton Transit (Zum) and the Toronto Transit Commission (TTC) The fast pace of growth projected in York • Viva bus rapid transit service operated Region between now and 2031 must by York Region Transit (YRT/Viva) be complemented by a transportation • Inter-regional rail and bus services system that preserves the environment, provided by GO Transit enhances the Region’s economic viability, seamlessly integrates with -
Pre-TPAP Public Part 4
Types of Rapid Transit Light Rail Transit (LRT) Electric trains running along tracks in a rapidway separate from regular traffic. Bus Rapid Transit (BRT) Transit buses (regular and articulated) operating in a rapidway separate from regular traffic. Adapted Bus Rapid Transit (aBRT) Similar to the VIVA rapid transit system in York Region and the ZÜM rapid transit system in Brampton, aBRT would feature buses driving in regular traffic, but given special considerations to make them faster and more convenient. These include complete integration as part of the rapid transit system, frequent service, limited stops, preboarding fares, signal priority, queue jumping and bus by-pass shoulders (to allow buses to maintain faster, consistent travel times), bicycle and pedestrian amenities, and passenger information systems. How are LRT and BRT Similar? Both would operate in separate, protected rapidways with the same impact on traffic. • Both are permanent. BRT is not easily convertible to LRT. Attempting to do so in the same rapidway would be extremely expensive and disruptive. • Both are eligible for funding from other levels of government. The Government of Ontario has agreed to provide $300 million towards the capital cost of Waterloo Region’s rapid transit system. The Government of Canada has agreed to fund one third of eligible project costs to a maximum of $265 million. The Region of Waterloo will be responsible for the balance. BRT rapidway LRT rapidway 4 | CONNECTING TO THE FUTURE | INFORMATION HANDOUT | MARCH 2011 LRT or BRT? LRT BRT ✓More