{"id":259,"date":"2009-05-07T10:00:59","date_gmt":"2009-05-07T15:00:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/vivanext.com\/blog\/?p=259"},"modified":"2009-05-19T08:44:42","modified_gmt":"2009-05-19T13:44:42","slug":"transit-helps-make-centres-corridors-a-successful-concept","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/yrrtc.ca\/blog\/2009\/05\/07\/transit-helps-make-centres-corridors-a-successful-concept\/","title":{"rendered":"Transit helps make Centres & Corridors a successful concept"},"content":{"rendered":"
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York Region and Toronto planners discuss how to best manage growth over the next few decades.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

We recently had the opportunity to co-sponsor the Regional Forum on Centres and Corridors<\/a>. The consistent message from speakers and the audience was that investment in public transit should be the first priority in making centres and corridors thrive. They also said designing and building town centres linked by fast, convenient public transit helps to shift people out of their cars.<\/p>\n

Speakers from York Region and the City of Toronto along with renowned urban planners and architects spoke about managing growth in York Region over the next 20 years. They examined lessons learned from the past to help improve growth management strategies in the future.<\/p>\n

To help manage growth, the Region has a plan to focus development around four \u201cdowntowns\u201d away from valuable farmland and environmentally important greenbelts. These centres (in Markham, Newmarket, Vaughan, and Richmond Hill) include residential, business and recreational development connected by transit.<\/p>\n

The new centres are being developed as live-work-play communities. We will be posting a blog in the near future that talks more about this idea.<\/p>\n

To learn more about the Centres, Corridors + Subways program, please visit their website<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n

Read the Official Regional Plan<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n

Read the Transit-Oriented Development Guidelines<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

We recently had the opportunity to co-sponsor the Regional Forum on Centres and Corridors. The consistent message from speakers and the audience was that investment in public transit should be the first priority in making centres and corridors thrive. They also said designing and building town centres linked by fast, convenient public transit helps to […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[62,30,59,19],"tags":[40,39,18,8,47,50,49,22,14,34,45,10,13,21,11,939,48,6,7,9],"class_list":["post-259","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-live-work-play","category-rapidways","category-subways","category-urban-planning","tag-brt","tag-bus-rapid-transit","tag-city-planning","tag-connections","tag-markham","tag-mixed-use-development","tag-newmarket","tag-ontario","tag-rapid-transit","tag-rapidway","tag-subway","tag-subway-extension","tag-toronto","tag-transit","tag-transit-only-lanes","tag-urban-planning","tag-vaughan","tag-viva","tag-vivanext","tag-york-region"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/yrrtc.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/259","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=259"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/yrrtc.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/259\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":305,"href":"https:\/\/yrrtc.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/259\/revisions\/305"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/yrrtc.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=259"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/yrrtc.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=259"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/yrrtc.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=259"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}