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drum118 said:
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.
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i think we can achieve better levels of density in the airport corporate centre without necessarily raising building heights significantly. look at how much space in the area is wasted on unused lawns and vast parking lots. The zoning code should be changed to incentivize more efficient use of this land, I wish they were more proactive and did this before the transitway was complete
 
Spectrum Square is a new transit-oriented mixed use development being built around the Spectrum Transitway Station. The Spectrum Station is connected to the development.
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The worst stations on the Transitway aren't at all the ones in the Airport Corporate Centre area. Some, like Etobicoke Creek, are even well-connected to the employment around them. Renforth Gateway is a logical transit connection point as well.

The worst stops are those along Highway 403 and in the hydro corridor. Dixie Station is forgivable - it's a relatively easy transfer to north-south buses with accesses on both sides of the street - but Cawthra is a total waste, and Erin Mills and Winston Churchill are awkward to access, hostile to walk-up traffic, and only serve to add travel time to GO buses as they have to get on and off the highway and wait at traffic signals.
 
ShonTron said:
The worst stations on the Transitway aren't at all the ones in the Airport Corporate Centre area. Some, like Etobicoke Creek, are even well-connected to the employment around them. Renforth Gateway is a logical transit connection point as well.

The worst stops are those along Highway 403 and in the hydro corridor. Dixie Station is forgivable - it's a relatively easy transfer to north-south buses with accesses on both sides of the street - but Cawthra is a total waste, and Erin Mills and Winston Churchill are awkward to access, hostile to walk-up traffic, and only serve to add travel time to GO buses as they have to get on and off the highway and wait at traffic signals.
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I agree with you. As for the Erin Mills and Winston Churchill stations, they were designed and built by Metrolinx so they are more like gloried GO bus carpool/park-and-ride highway facilities rather than a rapid transit station. MiWay just has the rights to make use of these two stops for their express and local routes.
 
This may change once this short segment is physical connected with the main Transitway corridor from Renforth to City Centre Gateway.
 
idc24 said:
I agree with you. As for the Erin Mills and Winston Churchill stations, they were designed and built by Metrolinx so they are more like gloried GO bus carpool/park-and-ride highway facilities rather than a rapid transit station. MiWay just has the rights to make use of these two stops for their express and local routes.
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Was Metrolinx design and building them the reason that they are designed differently from the other stations? Why couldn't they be designed similarly to have the Transitway platforms directly next to the N-S street? Was a major interchange reconfiguration not worth it?
 
Leo_Chan said:
Was Metrolinx design and building them the reason that they are designed differently from the other stations? Why couldn't they be designed similarly to have the Transitway platforms directly next to the N-S street? Was a major interchange reconfiguration not worth it?
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I think it was because Metrolinx used a lot of capital to include a large commuter parking lot and GO bus layover bays in both stations. They are essentially suburban GO stations minus the heavy rail line.
 
If the stations were attached to the Winston Churchill and Erin Mills overpasses the would be equally hard to access by foot. It would be a similar situation like the Spadina Line in the median of Allen Road...
 
idc24 said:
If the stations were attached to the Winston Churchill and Erin Mills overpasses the would be equally hard to access by foot. It would be a similar situation like the Spadina Line in the median of Allen Road...
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Are you trying to say that the other 9 stations are designed worse than the odd 2 in terms of walk ability and connections to street?
 
While I agree with you guys on the need of transit oriented development, that is not near as big an issue with a full busway BRT,

One of the primary benefits {besides the initial cost} of BRT over LRT rapid transit is that BRT has flexibility that LRT doesn`t and can never have. Unless you live right at/near an LRT station, a bus transfer is a necessity but not with BRT as it can be used as a truck route for local service. If there is one thing people hate, it`s a transfer and is a requirement of LRT while BRT offers more seamless transit service. This is why I think the constant complaints of not enough development potential around the Transitway are far overblown. With the budget they had and the need of true rapid transit unlike Finch, the Transitway was both the most cost effective, fastest, and most user friendly system they could have built.
 
ssiguy2 said:
While I agree with you guys on the need of transit oriented development, that is not near as big an issue with a full busway BRT,

One of the primary benefits {besides the initial cost} of BRT over LRT rapid transit is that BRT has flexibility that LRT doesn`t and can never have. Unless you live right at/near an LRT station, a bus transfer is a necessity but not with BRT as it can be used as a truck route for local service. If there is one thing people hate, it`s a transfer and is a requirement of LRT while BRT offers more seamless transit service. This is why I think the constant complaints of not enough development potential around the Transitway are far overblown. With the budget they had and the need of true rapid transit unlike Finch, the Transitway was both the most cost effective, fastest, and most user friendly system they could have built.
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yeah but its a shame to see the really nice expensive stations in the airport corporate centre not used as much as they could be, and so much vacant land adjacent to them that will probly end up being mostly sparse office buoldings
 
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Other than Cawthra all the other stations have easy walking access, if there development around them. They maybe walkable, but require long walking distance to get to them for a few of them.

Until "ALL" the (CITIES) stop allowing surface public parking, you can't increase density for commercial use. The best you may see floor wise at Renforth is about 15 floors.

There is a lot of vacant land east of Dixie that could add riders to the Transitway, but not that much. Talking to various land owners and developers for the these lands in 2003/2004/2014, 90% of employees come by car and from outside of Mississauga. You got about 20 years of development in this area before full built out. Some of the existing low rise could become mid rise down the road base on demands.
 
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