Wyecroft Rd Extension & Bridge Project (Halton / Oakville / Burlington)

[Allandale25]

 

[SaugeenJunction]

From today on the VIA. The spans are all installed.

 

[Sauga89]

I'm surprised they aren't building this bridge with dedicated bus lanes. It seems like the retail plazas along Wyecroft east of Burloak would be a good place to add density (close to retail, great park access, and few existing neighbours to complain about density). Dedicated bus lanes across the bridge could carry residents to Bronte GO very quickly. If you built those bus lanes now, before Wyecroft fills up with QEW traffic, it might be more politically palatable too.

 

[innsertnamehere]

I'm surprised they aren't building this bridge with dedicated bus lanes. It seems like the retail plazas along Wyecroft east of Burloak would be a good place to add density (close to retail, great park access, and few existing neighbours to complain about density). Dedicated bus lanes across the bridge could carry residents to Bronte GO very quickly. If you built those bus lanes now, before Wyecroft fills up with QEW traffic, it might be more politically palatable too.

just really not necessary in Oakville, local transit ridership is pretty poor and this bridge will have pretty minimal transit service on it. The only bus route even remotely close to it is the 14 which if it even uses it will likely only run a branch line with very limited frequencies.

This is getting built with "transit quick win" funding from the Provincial Liberals from 2008 that Halton Region never used under the pretense that the bridge supports transit connections, but as far as I know Oakville Transit is only planning to run the 14A across it with 30-minute frequencies in peak.

This bridge will create valuable connections to Oakville's new Costco and will be a good alternative to distributing traffic when there are issues on the QEW, but as a whole it's not particularly useful for transit routes in the area.

 

[just east of the creek]

just really not necessary in Oakville, local transit ridership is pretty poor and this bridge will have pretty minimal transit service on it. The only bus route even remotely close to it is the 14 which if it even uses it will likely only run a branch line with very limited frequencies.

This is getting built with "transit quick win" funding from the Provincial Liberals from 2008 that Halton Region never used under the pretense that the bridge supports transit connections, but as far as I know Oakville Transit is only planning to run the 14A across it with 30-minute frequencies in peak.

This bridge will create valuable connections to Oakville's new Costco and will be a good alternative to distributing traffic when there are issues on the QEW, but as a whole it's not particularly useful for transit routes in the area.

“Distributing traffic”….?To where? This project is completing a whole new conduit of traffic from Dorval to the mess at Maplegrove (Freeman Interchange) or spilling into downtown Burlington seeking to access the QEW before or after the Hamilton Harbour Bridges. And as the QEW frequently, seven days a week, has issues with volume in the corridor, many of us expect the traffic volumes along this new drag strip to quickly increase.

 

[just east of the creek]

Had to stop by Home Depot the other day and took a small side trip to see where we stood. Looks like we are really just waiting on paving, although the. Brontë/Sye rift intersection needs finishing touches, and the connections portion to the west of these photos

seems a bit further behind.