{"id":2513,"date":"2012-08-27T12:52:02","date_gmt":"2012-08-27T17:52:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/vivanext.com\/blog\/?p=2513"},"modified":"2012-08-27T12:53:49","modified_gmt":"2012-08-27T17:53:49","slug":"growing-up-students-and-rapid-transit","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/yrrtc.ca\/blog\/2012\/08\/27\/growing-up-students-and-rapid-transit\/","title":{"rendered":"Growing up: students and rapid transit"},"content":{"rendered":"

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It\u2019s that time of year again \u2013 students are back to school next week and parents can\u2019t believe how much their kids have grown. It probably seems like just yesterday that they were taking their first steps. If you\u2019re an older student, maybe you\u2019re taking a big step yourself \u2013 starting high school or college.<\/p>\n

We understand the feeling, because it wasn\u2019t long ago that we were planning the vivaNext rapidways, and now they\u2019re starting to take shape. Highway 7, between Bayview and Warden, is the \u2018eager beaver\u2019 of the class. Since 2010 on Highway 7, construction crews have removed medians, relocated utilities and widened the road to allow for dedicated transit lanes. New vivastations are well underway, with nine in various stages of completion and 13 more to come in the next 18 months. Once construction is complete, the rapidway lanes and stations will be tested, drivers will be trained, and the centre lanes of Highway 7 will become a full-fledged segment of rapidway.<\/p>\n

This September, students will get to school by bus, car, bike and on foot. Many students ride transit to and from school, and soon, Unionville High School and Seneca\u2019s Markham Campus will have a Highway 7 rapidway outside their doors. In Newmarket, the Davis Drive rapidway will bring rapid transit to the students of Huron Heights Secondary School, and future rapidways along Yonge Street will pass near Sir William Mulock, Richmond Hill, and Langstaff secondary schools. Langstaff and Thornhill secondary schools will each be within walking distance of the planned extension to Yonge Subway, and thanks to the Toronto-York Spadina Subway Extension, students of Seneca, York and Schulich will be able to take the subway to York University\u2019s Keele Campus in 2016.<\/p>\n

York Region\u2019s transit network is designed to help shape how and where our population grows, helping to transform our towns and cities into attractive, accessible urban areas. This includes new residents to our region, and also long-time residents like students, moving from one stage of life to another. This year\u2019s batch of college freshmen will have rapid transit waiting to take them to their first jobs when they graduate. Grade 9 students will be able to head to college via subway, and kindergarten students will have a world of choices. It\u2019ll all happen before we know it…[poll id=”33″]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

It\u2019s that time of year again \u2013 students are back to school next week and parents can\u2019t believe how much their kids have grown. It probably seems like just yesterday that they were taking their first steps. If you\u2019re an older student, maybe you\u2019re taking a big step yourself \u2013 starting high school or college. […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[53],"tags":[943,92,114,47,49,14,34,61,7,70],"class_list":["post-2513","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general","tag-construction","tag-davis-drive","tag-highway-7","tag-markham","tag-newmarket","tag-rapid-transit","tag-rapidway","tag-richmond-hill","tag-vivanext","tag-vivastation"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/yrrtc.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2513","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=2513"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/yrrtc.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2513\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2525,"href":"https:\/\/yrrtc.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2513\/revisions\/2525"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/yrrtc.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2513"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/yrrtc.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2513"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/yrrtc.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2513"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}