Until MTO Agrees to it, not going to happen. MTO has stated that there is no room on 427 to put in an BRT or transit only lane and to do would require removing a lane of traffic which is not in the cards.
Come 2019/20, all Mississauga routes will use 427 with the exception of 3 and 26. Route 20 will not go east of Pony Trail in 2017? Route 1 or 101 is supposed to continue to Islington at this time.
Islington will only see MT 26 and 1 or 101 after everything is move to Kipling.
Some of the following issues were known back in 2004 and don't recall seeing this building when I was at the Erin Mills station last year. I do agree it too close considering how far the station is from the property line in the first place. Other than that, I guess the Hydro Corridor is a great view from the backyard that is fence in the first place. Standard NIMBY's.
Metrolinx slammed for ‘appalling’ bus station beside Mississauga homes
Hi folks, I'm new here (commenting) but have followed this blog for some time and, upon seeing today's article, and that by the Mississauga News last week, feel compelled, as a resident of Erin Mills and regular user of the transitway (especially that station) to speak up (and hope more of us do)...
On the Toronto Star article, this is a gross attack and sensationalized story, half-reported, comprised of select residents, mostly immediately abutting the transitway, shouting in NIMBY protest YEARS after consultation (and inevitably construction and development) occurred, having only realized the issue, suddenly, this week? The city, meanwhile, goes on a vicious attack against Metrolinx, despite all the approvals, permits and regular lauding of the organization (think HLRT, GO expansion, new buses, PRESTO...) they had to go through to get this built! While Metrolinx built and designed these stations, the city has been there every step of the way, for more than a decade!! Where the hell were they when they saw these renderings of the station (which haven't changed since at least 2012, the image below is from their own transitway blog, Jan 14, 2012 - the small building has been there for over a year), consulted and approved it?? This is a shameful and unusual attack from a city getting a massive windfall in transit funding for GO and MiWay projects in recent years.
If it isn't clear already, I am very upset with the way this station turned out, and agree with the concerns - however I have made these concerns clear at consultations and direct calling/emails to GO and the city since 2010 and I never saw other residents voicing these issues loudly, when the time was there to do it! The station now functions as best as it can, and I am still in a heated conversation with Metrolinx about some other issues, such as the incomplete pathways system and horribly poor landscaping, lack of light-shading at the site...with limited success. This article, conversely, takes a completely last-minute, hostile approach, ignoring the process, the players and instead victimizing a single authority - Metrolinx. While deserving of some blame the Provincial authority has been isolated while the city washes it's hands of the issue. It's scandalous.
I'm sure many of us are aware of these issues, and I hope we understand the planning process, too. This article and attack - and the strange positioning of the select residents and the city - cannot go unanswered. I hope those in this blog can join me in some way responding to this such that the full story is revealed - including the equally dubious flaws, delays, cost over-runs, re-hashed contracts and escaped-blame of the city and council for their own transit stations! Those who have the most invested, worked the hardest, as well as the users of this system should not get shafted/dismissed yet again by this article...it's high time we set the record straight and demanded what was expected of this transit-way. I will start by writing a letter to the editor, and perhaps a full story blog post of my own, if warranted. The Mississauga News article seems wise to some of these concerns (I disagree with the hypothesized better alignment on Burnhamthorpe, as I think most here do, but Eglinton was and still is a far better option, that could have run straight to Renforth, with vast benefits to the city/development), so I'm hoping many here will ask them to do an investigation on this.
Thoughts?
P.S. Just found
this...so it looks like the Mississauga News is just as ignorant, too. I'll be giving them a call tomorrow.
