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Yesterday, we got positive news.\u00a0 But first: rewind back to March 2010, when the Province announced in their budget that, due to their major financial pressures, they would need to rejig their transit spending schedule, to focus on getting the most urgent projects built first.\u00a0 So we sat down with Metrolinx<\/a> to work through our plans.\u00a0 We needed to figure out the best schedule that would still benefit the region-wide transit system, but with some pieces coming sooner and others coming later.\u00a0 It took a lot of hard work, and yesterday, Metrolinx announced the proposed new schedule<\/a>.<\/p>\n Metrolinx\u2019 board gave its unanimous endorsement to the proposed plan<\/a>, which means the vivaNext projects can continue to move forward, one in each of Markham, Newmarket, Richmond Hill and Vaughan. This first phase of building will see York Region getting $790 million for rapid transit expansion over the next five years.<\/p>\n The plan also has a second series of rapidways, which will expand the rapid transit foundation established through the first set of routes. This second phase will get $965 million for projects to be constructed between 2016 and 2020.<\/p>\n The bottom line is that between these two phases, the entire vivaNext plan as originally announced in April 2009 will be built. We\u2019ve always believed that the vivaNext plan is one of the keys to getting the GTA moving, and now, after working closely with our partners at Metrolinx, we believe that the revised plan will still help us address the building gridlock that\u2019s such a risk for us all. That\u2019s good news for York Region, and for everyone who lives or works here.<\/p>\n So with this revised schedule now approved, we can really get underway towards building the vivaNext vision of true rapid transit for York Region. We\u2019ve got our design teams, our engineers and our construction crews all revved up to finalize their planning and, as the Metrolinx proposal is confirmed by the province next month, we can keep on going. So keep visiting us at vivaNext.com<\/a> for updates and news as we, with real excitement, get on our way!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Yesterday, we got positive news.\u00a0 But first: rewind back to March 2010, when the Province announced in their budget that, due to their major financial pressures, they would need to rejig their transit spending schedule, to focus on getting the most urgent projects built first.\u00a0 So we sat down with Metrolinx to work through our […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,30],"tags":[39,8,105,47,119,49,22,379,61,380,48,7,9],"class_list":["post-1504","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-announcements","category-rapidways","tag-bus-rapid-transit","tag-connections","tag-gta","tag-markham","tag-metrolinx","tag-newmarket","tag-ontario","tag-provincial-budget-announcement","tag-richmond-hill","tag-transit-spending-schedule","tag-vaughan","tag-vivanext","tag-york-region"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/yrrtc.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1504","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=1504"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/yrrtc.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1504\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1849,"href":"https:\/\/yrrtc.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1504\/revisions\/1849"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/yrrtc.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1504"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/yrrtc.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1504"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/yrrtc.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1504"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}