Mississauga Mississauga Transitway | ?m | ?s | Metrolinx | IBI Group

[RandomBusGuy]

1000% this ^^^^^

A cheap and easy improvement would be just adding an exception to the no right on red for buses. I've timed it, and have had a GO bus waiting up to 3 minutes for the light to change, even though there are gaps enough in traffic to make the right turn to exit the station.

 

[Sandpit]

What the Transitway needs as well are better accesses to and from the orphaned western section. GO and Miway buses are often stuck for long periods getting in and out of Winston Churchill and Erin Mills Stations.

It's slightly better now that (IIRC) buses no longer have to wait to turn right (to go back onto the highway) when exiting Erin Mills station.

 

[idc24]

https://www.poll-maker.com/results1986769x427944Aa-53#tab-2

 

[Streety McCarface]

https://www.poll-maker.com/results1986769x427944Aa-53#tab-2

Although beautiful, how's the ridership on this thing? It seems like no one is using it.

 

[drum118]

At the very least it should improve trip times? It also ends relatively close to Pearson, are there plans to take it there? Or is it just going to end at Renforth and meet Eglinton West.

If the ridership is low maybe more development can occur near stations? More routes could use it?

When the 100 starts in a few months, it will go to Terminal One, not where 107 stops today.

Since you are in the Hydro corridor, can't have development around it. Even then, only a few stations can see low density development and mostly commerical.

The only one who can offer more routes in the corridor is GO. miWay is running other service to some of them and it adding extra travel time to current riders time since they have no need to go there in the first place. Some stations are to become hubs like Renforth.

What needs to happen is building the missing sections and offer a better connection to the Sq One City Central Terminal.

This has always been A GO Thing from Day One, since they are doing regional connections.

 

[innsertnamehere]

I don't think there is a ton of ridership at the individual stations, but the buses are fairly full, with most riders going end to end.

 

[AlvinofDiaspar]

If the ridership is low maybe more development can occur near stations? More routes could use it?

As mentioned by @drum118 most if not all of the stations are sited poorly for intensification, and you sort of have to go out of your way to use it. No one should be surprised by the generally low usage of the stations.

AoD

 

[micheal_can]

As mentioned by @drum118 most if not all of the stations are sited poorly for intensification, and you sort of have to go out of your way to use it. No one should be surprised by the generally low usage of the stations.

AoD

I wonder what those areas will look like in 10--30 years, the length of time the Ottawa Transitways were in place before they decided to covert them to LRT?

 

[idc24]

I wonder what those areas will look like in 10--30 years, the length of time the Ottawa Transitways were in place before they decided to covert them to LRT?

By then the hydro lines will have probably been relocated underground which could open the corridors up to development.

 

[AlvinofDiaspar]

By then the hydro lines will have probably been relocated underground which could open the corridors up to development.

Not impossible - but how many Hydro One lines have you seen relocated in the past 50 years in an urban setting? Not to mention, the whole stretch (like Highway 407) is basically an infrastructure corridor - there are very good reasons to have it remain as such; and where there are developments they tend to be industrial in nature.

AoD

 

[idc24]

Back in the mid-1990s, Ontario Hydro surplussed one of their transmission corridors in Scarborough. A portion of the corridor was sold to a residential developer and resulted in a very interesting residential infill project.

http://www.galbraithplanning.com/blog/2014/6/5/hydro-corridor-housing

 

[TOareaFan]

Not impossible - but how many Hydro One lines have you seen relocated in the past 50 years in an urban setting? Not to mention, the whole stretch (like Highway 407) is basically an infrastructure corridor - there are very good reasons to have it remain as such; and where there are developments they tend to be industrial in nature.

AoD

Also, even if the hydro lines were buried (something I really can't see happening in this corridor) isn't there another land use nearby that limits how tall (ie dense) you can get with development in this area?

 

[W. K. Lis]

Also, even if the hydro lines were buried (something I really can't see happening in this corridor) isn't there another land use nearby that limits how tall (ie dense) you can get with development in this area?

AKA... NIMBYs!

 

[TOareaFan]

AKA... NIMBYs!

Never heard he airport described that way...but sure, them too.

 

[drum118]

Never heard he airport described that way...but sure, them too.

LOL, some people forget the airport dictates the hight of buildings around it as well type of use. The Flight Path plays the largest of what can be built around the Transitway Stations.

The area along Eglinton is zone for commercial in the first place from low to mid rise..

Nothing can be built along Eastgate as well the rest of the corridor.