{"id":3492,"date":"2014-02-13T12:23:32","date_gmt":"2014-02-13T17:23:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/vivanext.com\/blog\/?p=3492"},"modified":"2014-02-13T15:36:53","modified_gmt":"2014-02-13T20:36:53","slug":"building-up-the-centres-and-corridors","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/yrrtc.ca\/blog\/2014\/02\/13\/building-up-the-centres-and-corridors\/","title":{"rendered":"building up the centres and corridors"},"content":{"rendered":"

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The most obvious benefit that vivaNext will provide, and one that is already taking shape on Highway 7, is the convenient rapid transit system that we\u2019re constructing across York Region.\u00a0 But as I\u2019ve described in many previous posts, vivaNext is much more than a transit project; it\u2019s also a key part of the long-term strategy being used by York Region to help our Region respond to and manage growth.\u00a0 Central to that strategy is the overall vision of Centres and Corridors, which will help concentrate future growth in higher-density, mixed use developments clustered in four new urban nodes, one each in Markham, Newmarket, Richmond Hill and Vaughan.\u00a0 Here\u2019s a summary of how this strategy will transform our Region and help it manage growth.<\/p>\n

Population increase is happening across the Region, and brings many advantages.\u00a0 More people means the Region can attract and support new choices in housing, employment, shopping, entertainment, dining and recreation. But as the Region grows, more people also means more traffic, more congestion, and more crowding.\u00a0 So the strategy that York Region has developed, in collaboration with both the Province and the local municipalities, is to channel much of that growth into newly developed communities clustered in new urban centres along Highway 7 and in Newmarket.\u00a0 With this strategy, existing neighbourhoods will be protected, along with the way of life that attracted many people to the Region in the first place.<\/p>\n

The new communities in the Regional Centres will be mixed use, meaning they will offer residential, employment and recreational options \u2013 including a proportion of affordable housing choices. Once these new downtowns are fully established, people will be able to work, live and play without needing to get in a car, enjoying choices for housing, jobs, shopping and dining, all within walking distance.<\/p>\n

Linking these emerging downtowns will be major transportation corridors along Highway 7, Yonge Street and Davis Drive, featuring our new vivaNext bus rapid transit rapidways and the Spadina subway extension (and once funding is secured, the Yonge Subway extension).\u00a0 With convenient access between these new urban neighbourhoods and our expanding rapid transit network, people will be able to travel across the Region and into the rest of the GTA without needing a car, making the Centres an attractive option for people looking for an urban lifestyle.<\/p>\n

Obviously, completing York Region\u2019s new downtowns isn\u2019t going to happen overnight, but new developments are already transforming the look and feel along Highway 7, up Yonge Street and across Davis Drive.\u00a0 And as these new urban areas take shape, we\u2019re working hard to get the transit part of the equation built, one rapidway station at a time \u2013 to provide a convenient, fast way for everyone in York Region to get around using transit.<\/p>\n

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The most obvious benefit that vivaNext will provide, and one that is already taking shape on Highway 7, is the convenient rapid transit system that we\u2019re constructing across York Region.\u00a0 But as I\u2019ve described in many previous posts, vivaNext is much more than a transit project; it\u2019s also a key part of the long-term strategy […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[96,53,62,1,19],"tags":[18,8,92,350,114,47,50,49,61,117,939,48,7,9],"class_list":["post-3492","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-construction","category-general","category-live-work-play","category-uncategorized","category-urban-planning","tag-city-planning","tag-connections","tag-davis-drive","tag-growth","tag-highway-7","tag-markham","tag-mixed-use-development","tag-newmarket","tag-richmond-hill","tag-transit-oriented-development","tag-urban-planning","tag-vaughan","tag-vivanext","tag-york-region"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/yrrtc.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3492","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=3492"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/yrrtc.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3492\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3495,"href":"https:\/\/yrrtc.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3492\/revisions\/3495"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/yrrtc.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3492"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/yrrtc.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3492"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/yrrtc.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3492"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}