DRAFT 2041 REGIONAL TRANSPORTATION PLAN

FOR THE GREATER AND HAMILTON AREA

Draft for Consultation September 2017 This version of the Draft 2041 Regional Transportation Plan (Draft RTP) was approved for consultation by the Board of Directors on September 14th, 2017. This Draft RTP will inform public engagement and consultations through the fall of 2017. The feedback received from residents, businesses, civic organizations, partners and stakeholders will be incorporated into a final version of the Plan, to be submitted to the Metrolinx Board of Directors for approval.

Read the Draft RTP, and learn more about the research and technical analysis behind it: www.metrolinx.com/en/regionalplanning/rtp/

Have your say on the Draft RTP: www.metrolinx.com/theplan

Send your comments by email to: [email protected] Message from the Chief Planning Officer

These are remarkable times for The Regional Express Rail transportation in the Greater program, our most ambitious Toronto and Hamilton Area program yet, will transform (GTHA). More than $30 billion is GO Transit and the region with being invested in rapid transit frequent, two-way all-day rail infrastructure over the next eight service, more than doubling the years. number of riders by 2031.

Led by Metrolinx, the Eglinton Planning and engineering design Crosstown Transit (LRT) is well underway for 15 additional is under construction in the City of projects that are currently In Toronto and Viva/YRT Bus Rapid Delivery. This includes LRT, BRT Transit (BRT) is being built in York and subway expansions. Region. By the end of 2017, the extension of the Yonge-University – the hub of the Subway to Metropolitan regional transit network – is Centre will be complete. undergoing a major expansion in order to meet the needs of the The decades-long call for a 200,000 people who use it now permanent and fast rail link every workday, and the greater between Lester B. Pearson number who will use it in the International Airport and future. was answered with the completion of the UP Across the Greater Toronto and Express. Hamilton Area, fare payment has been modernized with the PRESTO fare card. The work of building an job is far from over. By 2041, over integrated transportation system 10 million people will live in the for the GTHA is truly underway. region. That is comparable to the number who currently live When the Province of in Paris or London. We need to created Metrolinx as a new plan for a future characterized regional transportation agency not only by continued population in 2006, a generation of and employment growth, but underinvestment in transit had also by changing demographics resulted in a transportation crisis. (including an aging population), Travellers in the region wanted the changing nature of work, action to address congested new transportation technologies roads and highways, gridlocked and services, and the impacts of urban streets, unreliable and climate change. inconvenient transit, and a lack of safe and well-maintained bikeways In short, we cannot stop. Our plan and sidewalks. With the release for moving forward – the Draft in 2008 of the region’s first ever 2041 Regional Transportation transportation plan, , Plan – calls for governments to Metrolinx set out a common vision move beyond The Big Move to for the region and a blueprint of put people’s needs at the core of how to transform transportation. planning and operations. We need to increase the capacity to move The ambitious expansion of people around the region. transit in the GTHA is the largest in North America today. But the B