{"id":3556,"date":"2014-04-23T16:05:08","date_gmt":"2014-04-23T21:05:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/vivanext.com\/blog\/?p=3556"},"modified":"2014-04-23T16:05:08","modified_gmt":"2014-04-23T21:05:08","slug":"rapid-transit-is-coming-to-yonge-street","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/yrrtc.ca\/blog\/2014\/04\/23\/rapid-transit-is-coming-to-yonge-street\/","title":{"rendered":"rapid transit is coming to yonge street"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/vivanext.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/04\/blog_image_rapidway_coming_to_yonge.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-3557\" title=\"blog_image_rapidway_coming_to_yonge\" src=\"http:\/\/vivanext.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/04\/blog_image_rapidway_coming_to_yonge.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"450\" height=\"269\" srcset=\"https:\/\/yrrtc.ca\/blog\/vivanext.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/04\/blog_image_rapidway_coming_to_yonge.png 450w, https:\/\/yrrtc.ca\/blog\/vivanext.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/04\/blog_image_rapidway_coming_to_yonge-300x179.png 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 450px) 100vw, 450px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The next generation of rapid transit is coming to Yonge Street. We\u2019re excited to <a title=\"Yonge Street media release\" href=\"http:\/\/www.vivanext.com\/newsroom\/related\/mediarelease\/rapid-transit-contract-awarded-for-yonge-street-in-richmond-hill-and-newmarket\/\" target=\"_blank\">announce<\/a> that York RapidLINK Constructors have been awarded the $260.5 million design build contract for the York Viva Bus Rapid Transit [vivaNext] rapidways along Yonge Street in the Towns of Richmond Hill and Newmarket.<\/p>\n<p>The project involves widening Yonge Street within Richmond Hill and Newmarket to accommodate approximately nine kilometres of dedicated rapidway lanes for viva rapid transit vehicles in the centre of the road as well as 10 new vivastations.<\/p>\n<p>In Richmond Hill, the Yonge Street rapidway will extend 6.5 kilometres from Highway 7 to 19th Avenue\/Gamble Road, including seven new vivastations. In the heritage area north of Major Mackenzie Drive, viva will continue to drive in mixed traffic as it does today.<\/p>\n<p>In Newmarket, the rapidway will extend 2.4 kilometres on Yonge Street from just south of Mulock Drive to Davis Drive, and will include three new vivastations. Construction is expected to begin later this year, and be completed by the end of 2018.<\/p>\n<p>This is an important project that will benefit the local economy for generations and will support the significant development and growth of these communities by reducing congestion and providing commuters with a better way to get around.<\/p>\n<p>To learn more about the Yonge Street project and sign up for project updates, visit\u00a0<a title=\"vivanext.com\" href=\"http:\/\/www.vivanext.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">vivanext.com<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The next generation of rapid transit is coming to Yonge Street. We\u2019re excited to announce that York RapidLINK Constructors have been awarded the $260.5 million design build contract for the York Viva Bus Rapid Transit [vivaNext] rapidways along Yonge Street in the Towns of Richmond Hill and Newmarket. The project involves widening Yonge Street within [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,53],"tags":[39,8,92,350,49,14,34,61,11,7,60,9],"class_list":["post-3556","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-announcements","category-general","tag-bus-rapid-transit","tag-connections","tag-davis-drive","tag-growth","tag-newmarket","tag-rapid-transit","tag-rapidway","tag-richmond-hill","tag-transit-only-lanes","tag-vivanext","tag-yonge-st","tag-york-region"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/yrrtc.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3556","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=3556"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/yrrtc.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3556\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3559,"href":"https:\/\/yrrtc.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3556\/revisions\/3559"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/yrrtc.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3556"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/yrrtc.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3556"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/yrrtc.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3556"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}