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3 GROWTH CORRIDOR Travel plans 6 OWNERSHIP OPTIONS Adjustable living WEDNESDAY, GREATER TORONTO JUNE 12, 2019 Vol. 22 & HAMILTON AREA No. 24 BOWMANVILLE GO EXTENSION DOWNTOWN ROUTE PREFERRED Rachael Williams s Metrolinx seeks to (the original route) and two absolutely honest, it would to be able to see, based on the A pursue a more affordable involve the train running north do nothing for our city,” said provincial rules when you look option for the long- of Highway 401 via the CP Oshawa mayor Dan Carter. at intensification, that we’re able awaited Lakeshore East GO line through central Oshawa. Carter told NRU having to create the kind of housing train extension to Bowmanville, In the third option, the train regional transit run through a that is connectible for our Oshawa staff and the business would run along the Canadian provincially identified urban transit system, local to health community are doubling down National Railway line south of growth centre, which would care needs and close to job on the original route alignment Highway 401 through Oshawa. include the construction of a opportunities,” he said. that would enable transit service The fourth option, known as new downtown GO station, is Lack of transit connectivity through the city’s urban growth the hybrid option, has the train paramount to ensuring Durham in key growth sectors, coupled centre. operating south of Highway 401 Region can meet its provincial CONTINUED PAGE 9 The provincial transit agency through Oshawa before being growth targets by stimulating recently announced that the redirected north to the CP line private and public investment Map identifying four rail extension alignment options currently being in Clarington. and unlocking development initial Bowmanville GO train considered by Metrolinx for the extension route proposed by “[South of Highway 401] potential. Bowmanville GO train service extension. the former provincial Liberals, is largely industrial and to be “It gives us an opportunity SOURCE: METROLINX which would run north of Highway 401 through central Oshawa, had nearly doubled in price and would take significantly longer to build. The original cost estimate was $550-million, but requirements from Canadian Pacific Railway, who owns the line, have pushed the cost to between $721-million to $1.2-billion. As a result, Metrolinx is looking at more cost-effective alternatives. Four options are being considered. Options one DOWNTOWN City staff estimates the GO Looking at the economic station redevelopment could impact of all four GO stations, generate an additional 2,600 an Altus Group report notes ROUTE PREFERRED new residential units within there are 63 vacant or under- a kilometre of the station, as utilized sites within a one CONTINUED FROM PAGE 1 well as 10,000 square feet of kilometre walking distance of new office space and 558,000 all four stations. The stations with the loss of manufacturing targets is the redevelopment square feet of new retail and could result in the development jobs and the 2008 recession expected to occur around four commercial space. of nearly 6,000 new residential have been identified as new GO Train stations that “When you think about units, 7.8 million square feet of reasons why Durham Region would be built as part of the it, if that was a redeveloped non-residential development, has struggled to meet 2031 option one route alignment. GO station, it would change with retail and office potential. and 2041 population and The stations would include the whole façade of the area. “There’s a really good employment targets set out in Thornton’s Corners, Oshawa You would have, probably, all opportunity for uplift so we the provincial Growth Plan. Central Station, Courtice kinds of people living close need to make sure we build Over the 2001-2011 period, Station and the Bowmanville by because they could just a rail system that supports Durham Region was forecast Station. jump on the GO train and ...not just people getting to and to receive 72,000 new jobs, The downtown Oshawa head to whatever city they from work on time, but more growing from 188,000 jobs in station, identified by Metrolinx needed to go—Pickering, Ajax, importantly the opportunities 2001 to 260,000 jobs in 2011. as a mobility hub, would be Toronto. And you’re bringing of creating jobs and businesses Based on 2001 and 2011 census built on the old Knob Hill people out here as well, from around very active train data, the region only achieved Farms property, currently a Toronto. We don’t want to be stations,” said Durham regional 35,000 net new jobs created vacant lot in south central known as a bedroom city,” said chair John Henry. over the 10-year period— Oshawa between Front Street Greater Oshawa Chamber of Metrolinx preferred less than half the forecasted and Howard Street, just north Commerce CEO and general routes—options three and amount. of Highway 401. manager Nancy Shaw. four—would run south of “Option one would be Highway 401 through primarily transformational for Durham,” industrial lands. In both said Oshawa’s development options, a new Oshawa GO services commissioner Warren station would be built between Munro. “It will reframe the Ritson Road and Simcoe Street, purpose of transit investment as an area surrounded by low-rise a key enabler of private sector residential, a public school and investment, critically needed light industry. given the announced departure Acknowledging the lack of of [General Motors].” development potential south By 2041, the region’s of the highway, Carter said population is forecast to grow he will continue to work with to 1.2-million people with Metrolinx to determine a route employment reaching 430,000. that will maximize economic The rate of population growth opportunities, promote needs to increase by 60 per environmental sustainability cent per year and the rate of and improve quality of life. employment needs to increase CONTINUED PAGE 10 by 80 per cent per year to meet Map identifying the urban growth the 2041 Growth Plan forecasts. centres across the Greater Golden Integral to the region Horseshoe. meeting its intensification SOURCE: MINISTRY OF MUNICIPAL AFFAIRS AND HOUSING WEDNESDAY, JUNE 12, 2019 NOVÆ RES URBIS GREATER TORONTO & HAMILTON AREA 9 DOWNTOWN we start to use the GO network major transportation networks, as an all-day service, to start to whether that’s the subway, ROUTE PREFERRED think about how we do two-way whether that’s GO, it gives us a travel a bit more and get people bit of opportunity to get people to Oshawa and jobs to Oshawa,” to jobs without continuing to CONTINUED FROM PAGE 9 he said. overload the one-way trip into “We want to be part of the Graham Haines told NRU This will not only decrease downtown,” he said. solution as we move forward. there is a growing correlation auto dependency, but Haines Metrolinx is currently We want to make sure it makes between the development of said it will help alleviate the developing a business case for financial sense for everybody, urban growth centres and existing infrastructure pressures all four options detailing the but we want to make sure that transit connectivity through the on Toronto’s downtown subway cost-benefit ratios, with results they understand clearly that the GO network. stations. expected to be released within right decision will have a huge “We’re starting to rethink “We’re starting to see the year. impact in our community for how we use the GO Train with huge subway overcrowding the next 75 years. The wrong two-way all-day service every in Toronto and a lot of that NRU posed a number of decision will punish us, in that 15 minutes along the Lakeshore is [due to] the fact that more questions to Metrolinx, but did it will not have the impact that line. Originally it was really just and more people are accessing not receive answers in time for we would like or are hoping for,” a commuter line, looking at how employment in downtown publication. noted Carter. we can get people from Oshawa Toronto, but if we can start to Ryerson City Building into Toronto. But there’s provide some jobs elsewhere on Institute research manager obviously a big opportunity, as the network, elsewhere on our OWN BURLIN WNT GTO Joseph Brant General Hospital 0DSOHYLHZ0DOO DO N 5 MINUTE DRIVE Burlington Golf & Country Club 35 Plains Road East | Burlington, Ontario 4 MINUTE DRIVE Site Area ±0.49 ac. 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