micheal_can
Senior Member
Could this be a first step towards BRT/LRT in the Halton region? That is what happened with the YRT and DRT.
In principle, I support creating 'Halton Region Transit' as there's just enormous sense from an operation perspective and a customer perspective.
If one transit system is created for Halton, that would leave Peel as the only region that still has lower-tier transit. Kind of ironic giving the age and extent of urbanization there, but sort of making sense given its geography of having only two cities on top of one another with no other cities in the region on either side of them as they both span it.
With Caledon increasingly served by Brampton Transit. It’s the one place where regional transit isn’t at all necessary.
Burlington and Oakville had an LRT …… but it ended in 1925 due to lack of business. And it’s not returning. And by all accounts the Dundas BRT will be nothing but a city bus running a normal route in traffic with a differing paint colour.Could this be a first step towards BRT/LRT in the Halton region? That is what happened with the YRT and DRT.
Who’s to say.Burlington and Oakville had an LRT …… but it ended in 1925 due to lack of business. And it’s not returning. And by all accounts the Dundas BRT will be nothing but a city bus running a normal route in traffic with a differing paint colour.
Let’s not get carried away with any notions of mass transit beyond enhanced GO and VIA service, in combination with improving bus based transit.
Who’s to say.
Trafalgar is bound to get something someday, as development north of Dundas continues to sprawl, and it is quite dense for suburbia. It might come down to if the residents think an LRT is a sexy idea for their ‘town’. Halton/it’s municipalities can afford it.
We’re talking a timeline of 30+ years with RTPs. You don’t think a N/S LRT or BRT is possible?
Re Trafalgar. I can see some higher order of bus service extending from the Oakville GO transit node northwards, connecting with the college, Dundas transit node, GO bus connections at the 407 and then northwards to Milton. (I would copy that on Brontë Road as well)(And further west along Waterdown Road) Trafalgar from the GO station northwards could support a BRT type development at some point in its future.Who’s to say.
Trafalgar is bound to get something someday, as development north of Dundas continues to sprawl, and it is quite dense for suburbia. It might come down to if the residents think an LRT is a sexy idea for their ‘town’. Halton/it’s municipalities can afford it.
We’re talking a timeline of 30+ years with RTPs. You don’t think a N/S LRT or BRT is possible?
Classic.All of this discussion re a Halton Regional Transit system is far down the list
Yes, these numbers. Under the current goverments let’s invite everyone in immigration program, possibly you see these numbers. What the numbers do not illustrate is the myriad problems this policy and the related unprecedented growth has already created. And the lacking physical response to solving them. I am not sure that immigration policies do not change in the next election and we’ll see where we stand.Classic.
Let's build car-centric developments and when traffic becomes untenable try to overlay some transit a extraordinarily high cost.
Or... let's start planning now for appropriate transit infrastructure to support Halton's 75% increase in population over 30 years.
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