{"id":3235,"date":"2013-09-17T15:24:19","date_gmt":"2013-09-17T20:24:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/vivanext.com\/blog\/?p=3235"},"modified":"2013-09-17T15:24:19","modified_gmt":"2013-09-17T20:24:19","slug":"introducing-the-bayview-towers-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/yrrtc.ca\/blog\/2013\/09\/17\/introducing-the-bayview-towers-2\/","title":{"rendered":"introducing the Bayview Towers"},"content":{"rendered":"

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The Bayview Towers opened on September 1 for service, just in time for back to school. If you\u2019re in the area near Highway 7 between Bayview and Chalmers\/South Park you\u2019ll have noticed two attractive buildings, sporting vivaNext symbols, built right next to the Bayview Bridge.\u00a0\u00a0 Here\u2019s a description of the Bayview Towers, and how they\u2019re going to make life more convenient and comfortable for York Region transit users.<\/p>\n

The two handsome glass and concrete buildings, one on each of the north and south sides of Highway 7, are there to provide convenient access for people on Bayview Avenue wanting to connect to the viva system, and vice versa.\u00a0 These buildings replace the stairs that used to be the only way people could make that connection.<\/p>\n

Providing elevator access was always seen to be the ideal solution to ensure everyone would be able to move easily from Bayview down to Highway 7, but because elevators need to be located in spaces with constant temperatures and protected from the elements, we needed to create actual buildings around them.<\/p>\n

That\u2019s why we have built the Bayview Towers.\u00a0 The buildings are not bus stations \u2013 there are curb-side vivastations on both the north and south sides of Highway 7.\u00a0 The buildings are both fully accessible, and each has an elevator that will whisk people up to the level of the Bayview Bridge, as well as an interior stairwell.<\/p>\n

Inside, the Towers are airy and well-lit, with glass walls making the interiors clearly visible to Highway 7.\u00a0 With full security coverage including cameras that can monitor the entire building and emergency call buttons on all levels that connect directly to YRT dispatch, people will feel safe using the towers at all times.<\/p>\n

At the top level, people will access the Towers via pedestrian bridges that enter onto the sidewalks on the Bayview.\u00a0 Changes to YRT and Viva routes will go into effect now that the Towers are open, so check out the schedules before you head out.<\/p>\n

All in all, we\u2019re proud of these great new additions to our rapidway system, which are going to improve connectivity for everyone using Viva and YRT.<\/p>\n

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The Bayview Towers opened on September 1 for service, just in time for back to school. If you\u2019re in the area near Highway 7 between Bayview and Chalmers\/South Park you\u2019ll have noticed two attractive buildings, sporting vivaNext symbols, built right next to the Bayview Bridge.\u00a0\u00a0 Here\u2019s a description of the Bayview Towers, and how they\u2019re […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[53,19],"tags":[18,350,114,47,50,34,61,48,7,9],"class_list":["post-3235","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general","category-urban-planning","tag-city-planning","tag-growth","tag-highway-7","tag-markham","tag-mixed-use-development","tag-rapidway","tag-richmond-hill","tag-vaughan","tag-vivanext","tag-york-region"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/yrrtc.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3235","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=3235"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/yrrtc.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3235\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3238,"href":"https:\/\/yrrtc.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3235\/revisions\/3238"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/yrrtc.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3235"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/yrrtc.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3235"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/yrrtc.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3235"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}