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drum118 said:
The last I heard or saw said BRT north of the GO Station at this time, but doesn't stop having an LRT replace it down the road unless demand will never meet the requirements for an LRT.

I recommended back in 2006 and 2008 that the LRT go to Mayfield and the next phase to Orangeville. I recommended in the long run the LRT make its way to Own Sound using the old CP ROW back in 2006.
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An LRT north of Steeles will undermine the City of Brampton's Rapid Transit future. There will not be demand for an LRT north of the GO station, and an LRT to the GO station will undermine a BRT project north of the GO station. Furthermore if the section from Steeles to Brampton GO is done as an LRT, it will result in three disconnected BRT lines (QuBRT, Main BRT, and Steeles BRT). If it is done as a BRT then the City of Brampton would have three connected BRTs, and it will also directly connect to a bus storage and maintenance facility.

Brampton City Council is focused on one off projects, and not an actual network.



Why on earth would you build an LRT to Orangeville, or even Owen Sound?
 
^ there was always going to be a QuBRT-Main RT (LRT or BRT) and Main RT-Steeles BRT transfer, so those shouldn't count on your list. Transfers happen all the time in Toronto. Steve Munro brought up this point in the SSE LRT vs subway debate.
 
Wm Perkins Bull said:
An LRT north of Steeles will undermine the City of Brampton's Rapid Transit future. There will not be demand for an LRT north of the GO station, and an LRT to the GO station will undermine a BRT project north of the GO station. Furthermore if the section from Steeles to Brampton GO is done as an LRT, it will result in three disconnected BRT lines (QuBRT, Main BRT, and Steeles BRT). If it is done as a BRT then the City of Brampton would have three connected BRTs, and it will also directly connect to a bus storage and maintenance facility.

Brampton City Council is focused on one off projects, and not an actual network.



Why on earth would you build an LRT to Orangeville, or even Owen Sound?
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In a little more than a hundred years, maybe. Unless COVID-19 reduces the "surplus population".
 
Wm Perkins Bull said:
An LRT north of Steeles will undermine the City of Brampton's Rapid Transit future. There will not be demand for an LRT north of the GO station, and an LRT to the GO station will undermine a BRT project north of the GO station. Furthermore if the section from Steeles to Brampton GO is done as an LRT, it will result in three disconnected BRT lines (QuBRT, Main BRT, and Steeles BRT). If it is done as a BRT then the City of Brampton would have three connected BRTs, and it will also directly connect to a bus storage and maintenance facility.

Brampton City Council is focused on one off projects, and not an actual network.

Why on earth would you build an LRT to Orangeville, or even Owen Sound?
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On one hand, you suggest that "Brampton City Council is focused on one off projects, and not an actual network." An entirely-within-Brampton BRT line on Main Street is exactly the kind of one off project you're thinking of. There's not a need for anything more than a Zum route north of the GO Station, while the LRT connection between Downtown Brampton and Mississauga City Centre is part of a regional network
 
ShonTron said:
On one hand, you suggest that "Brampton City Council is focused on one off projects, and not an actual network." An entirely-within-Brampton BRT line on Main Street is exactly the kind of one off project you're thinking of. There's not a need for anything more than a Zum route north of the GO Station, while the LRT connection between Downtown Brampton and Mississauga City Centre is part of a regional network
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That is because I am considering the Regional network, yet also considering an extremely wide range of municipal documents. For example, the entirety of Highway 10 is a Primary Intensification corridor, from south of the 407 to where Snelgrove ends, and Caledon begins, the municipal plans have rapid transit north of Brampton GO to Caledon. Bovaird is indicated as an intensification corridor from Airport to just short of Heritage Road, furthermore, it has the Hospital at Bramalea, Trinity Commons (to be redeveloped as a "town centre", and already designated an MTSA), and Mount Pleasant, plus the planned Heritage Heights town centre and likely something for Bramalea East. Given all of those things on Bovaird, it makes sense for it to have rapid transit, and it would be strange for there to be RT on Bovaird, but not from Brampton GO to Bovaird. Furthermore, if you are doing rapid transit to Bovaird, make it a BRT to hook up to the Sandalwood facility, and it it goes that far, take it to Mayfield (Note, Caledon plans extensive development bounded by Old School Road, Dixie, Mayfield, and Chinguacousy). Having these two intersect would generate quite a benefit for redeveloping the employment area at Bovaird and Hurontario, allowing Heart Lake/Snelgrove to have at least some people be able to work nearby.
 
khristopher said:
Has any construction actually started on this project yet?
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Not that I am aware of at this point. The removal of the medium is to start in April and will be done in phases. The real work on the LRT will see construction starting in 2021 after road and utilities work is done this year.

With the removal of the medium, this will allow traffic to be shifted from side to side so road, sidewalk and utilities work can be done.

Could be wrong, but work between Matheson and Steeles will be done first as it will allow the LRV's to see testing while the rest of the line is built. The LRV's to start arriving late 2022 or early 2023 at hwy 407 carhouse.
 
If the radial railway could run from below St. Clair Avenue up to Lake Simcoe back in 1912, why not run a light rail line up to Collingwood?

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From link.
 
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