Will this thing actually be used? Seems like the kind of thing that one of those wheels trans buses would work best with, I mean...you'd have a few people on each bus, maximum I would imagine? Maybe 12 tops. Only because of COVID would it make sense to run large buses on the Dundas BRT to have space between people.
Am I just tripping?
The BRT ROW will only work at this time on Dundas from Kipling to Mavis Rd and be express buses to Waterdown for the next 20 years or when Halton decides to put density along and near Dundas.
From Mavis Rd to Halton, Mississauga needs to do the same as Halton, but limit to various areas due to the valley and tearing low density that rears Dundas. Lots of parking lots that can become density.
If urban design was done correct on Dundas from 427 to Mavis, you could 300,000 in that area and would support the subway to Hurontario with the BRT being replace by LRT first.
Just because the Milton Line almost beside Dundas, they both serve different markets and you need both.
As someone who wrote an opposition to Mississauga Transitway back in 2004, I stated that it was 2 different things, serve different markets, but most of all it should been an LRT line based on ridership numbers. Those numbers were very inflated to the point it was the WHOLE GO Bus system and very little for Mississauga Transit.
The Transitway has been a dog breakfast from day one from under estimating cost, poor planning and over stating ridership. This is only a faction of the line as it was to run from Pickering to Burlington by the Hydro Corridor. We now know most of the Hydro corridor cannot be use for the Transitway
The original cost to built the Mississauga section 100% was to be around $400 million in 2004 dollars, but only 60% got built for $600 Million which I stated was going to happen back in 2004.
The Sq One Terminal was built as a 2 level terminal with the BRT being below ground, to service 25,000 riders in a city of 250,000 which was a joke considering the city was to be 725,000 by 2025 which has come and gone years ago. It was one of a number great mistakes that Hazel and council made in the late 80's and the 90's before my time that we have to live with today. The city refused to pay the extra money for a larger area to meet future transit needs for the terminal, having the Hersey Centre where the Movie theater is and the list goes on.
In the 2000's, Hazel would cry at council at the cost of building the transitway and where she was going to find the money to pay for it to the point the tunnel from the terminal under Hurontario was scrap, removing the ROW on the northside of the 403 along with station as well the overpass over the 403 at Duke of York to the tunnel for the terminal along with a number of other things.
10 years after the terminal open, it was expanded to what there now along removing routes from it, yet still too small. The same year, Station Gate was finish off to allow for a GO Station to be built there that has been expanded and still needs to be expanded.
The City need to built a new Transit Centre to service The Transitway, GO, miWay, the LRT, a branch line off the Milton Line and future LRT lines as well 125-150,000 riders daily. Both terminals were seeing around 70,000 a day before COVID-19.
The Transitway has been a GO Thing from day one in planning as well operation and will see the lion share of riders. Until the 107 came along, Mississauga could not offer 15 minute bus service to the airport that is in the city back yard, other than using the 7 that ran every 30 minutes weekday and hourly on the weekend to the point Malton should have been part of Toronto that offer better service.
As for the 109, it started out with a few riders from Islington and had a few more when it hit Sq One. Before COVID-19, it was time to replace the 40's with 60's since ridership was exceeding capacity with buses bypass stations if no one wanted off as there was no space for them. It came to a point you were doing 1:1 going westbound when the bus hit Sq One and almost the same going eastbound to the residents. Then, the Etobicoke Councilor said everything west of 427 should have been Mississauga.
The plan 100 was to started over 5 years before it hit the road from Sq One to Terminal One every 10 minutes. When it started, it was every 30 minutes from Winston Churchill with next to no riders on it and should never see the light of day again.
The City is looking at fixing the connection for the Transitway in the city core underground on the north side of Rathburn where a NEW TRANSIT CENTRE should be built for 2050 ridership plus.
