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Today, an on-site ceremony was held on Enterprise Drive in Markham to commemorate the start of 70 kilometres of vivaNext rapidway<\/a> construction in York Region.<\/p>\n VivaNext \u2013 York Region\u2019s plan for the next generation of rapid transit \u2013 includes a network of several rapidways<\/a> across the Region. They are the east-west Highway 7 rapidway<\/a> from Highway 50 in Vaughan to Reesor Road in Markham, the north-south Yonge Street rapidway<\/a> from the Richmond Hill Centre Terminal in Richmond Hill to Green Lane in Newmarket, and the east-west Davis Drive rapidway<\/a> from Yonge Street to the Southlake Regional Health Centre<\/a> in Newmarket.<\/p>\n The rapidways will take Viva vehicles out of mixed traffic and into their own dedicated lanes, where they will safely speed past congestion, no matter what time of day.<\/p>\n The 800 metres of rapidways being built on Enterprise Drive<\/a>, between Warden Avenue and Birchmount Road, are part of the Highway 7 rapidway project.<\/p>\n \u201cThis construction phase is truly significant, as it marks the beginning of a new stage of rapid transit in York Region,\u201d said York Region Chairman and CEO Bill Fisch. \u201cTogether with the Government of Ontario, we are building a modern transit system to ensure we keep pace with the planned growth in York Region and preserve the quality of life our residents have come to expect.\u201d<\/p>\n Rapidway construction on Enterprise Drive, which will be completed by the end of 2010, will involve the installation of concrete platform foundations, curbs, and the placement of station canopies. No road closures will be required; only short-term temporary lane closures.<\/p>\n \u201cThis is great news for the people of York Region and the GTA,\u201d said Markham-Unionville MPP Michael Chan. \u201cThe project signals the start of a faster, more convenient rapid transit network that will enable people to get around more easily, improve the ability of our businesses to grow and succeed and help improve the environment.\u201d<\/p>\n As construction of the rapidways gets underway, we encourage you to add vivanext.com<\/a> to your list of favourite websites for quick and easy access to the latest information and construction updates. While there, you can also sign up<\/a> to receive our quarterly e-newsletter in your Inbox, along with customized email updates about vivaNext projects of particular interest to you.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Today, an on-site ceremony was held on Enterprise Drive in Markham to commemorate the start of 70 kilometres of vivaNext rapidway construction in York Region. VivaNext \u2013 York Region\u2019s plan for the next generation of rapid transit \u2013 includes a network of several rapidways across the Region. They are the east-west Highway 7 rapidway from […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,4,30],"tags":[40,39,270,76,8,943,92,269,268,114,47,119,50,22,34,61,11,6,7,60,9],"class_list":["post-1028","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-announcements","category-press","category-rapidways","tag-brt","tag-bus-rapid-transit","tag-chairman-bill-fisch","tag-congestion","tag-connections","tag-construction","tag-davis-drive","tag-dedicated-lanes","tag-enterprise-drive","tag-highway-7","tag-markham","tag-metrolinx","tag-mixed-use-development","tag-ontario","tag-rapidway","tag-richmond-hill","tag-transit-only-lanes","tag-viva","tag-vivanext","tag-yonge-st","tag-york-region"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/yrrtc.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1028","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/yrrtc.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/yrrtc.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/yrrtc.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/yrrtc.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1028"}],"version-history":[{"count":12,"href":"https:\/\/yrrtc.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1028\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1042,"href":"https:\/\/yrrtc.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1028\/revisions\/1042"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/yrrtc.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1028"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/yrrtc.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1028"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/yrrtc.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1028"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}