{"id":4047,"date":"2015-02-07T23:54:25","date_gmt":"2015-02-08T04:54:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/vivanext.com\/blog\/?p=4047"},"modified":"2015-02-07T23:57:46","modified_gmt":"2015-02-08T04:57:46","slug":"rapidways-in-winter","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/yrrtc.ca\/blog\/2015\/02\/07\/rapidways-in-winter\/","title":{"rendered":"rapidways in winter"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/vivanext.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/02\/Feb06_blog_Snow.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-4048\" title=\"rapidways in winter - Town Centre Station on Highway 7 East\" src=\"http:\/\/vivanext.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/02\/Feb06_blog_Snow.jpg\" alt=\"rapidways in winter - Town Centre Station on Highway 7 East\" width=\"450\" height=\"345\" srcset=\"https:\/\/yrrtc.ca\/blog\/vivanext.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/02\/Feb06_blog_Snow.jpg 450w, https:\/\/yrrtc.ca\/blog\/vivanext.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/02\/Feb06_blog_Snow-300x230.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 450px) 100vw, 450px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>It\u2019s definitely winter! Nobody knows that better than outdoor maintenance crews. When there is snow and ice, York Region\u2019s crews are on duty on our new Highway 7 East rapidway, clearing the way for rapid transit. In Markham, the rapidway travels down South Town Centre Boulevard and Cedarland Drive. The glass canopies at vivastations shelter Viva customers from light flurries, but when heavy snow or ice make an appearance, the heated enclosure is where you want to be. \u00a0To remove the snow at the stations, a contractor from YRT\/Viva operations shovels and salts the vivastation platforms so that they\u2019re safe for everyone. Sidewalks are usually a municipal responsibility, so the new sidewalks along the Highway 7 West rapidway are cleared by the City of Markham and Town of Richmond Hill.<\/p>\n<p>.<br \/>\nBefore the rapidway was built on Highway 7 East, sidewalks were few and far between, and there were smaller curb-side Viva stops. The street has now been transformed from a suburban freeway to a walkable urban street and transit route [with bike lanes!]. With the new facelift complete there are benefits for everyone and the same treatment is coming next year on Davis Drive! \u00a0Think spring!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It\u2019s definitely winter! Nobody knows that better than outdoor maintenance crews. When there is snow and ice, York Region\u2019s crews are on duty on our new Highway 7 East rapidway, clearing the way for rapid transit. In Markham, the rapidway travels down South Town Centre Boulevard and Cedarland Drive. The glass canopies at vivastations shelter [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[30,67],"tags":[114,471,470,6,7,70,469,9],"class_list":["post-4047","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-rapidways","category-stations","tag-highway-7","tag-maintenance","tag-snow","tag-viva","tag-vivanext","tag-vivastation","tag-winter","tag-york-region"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/yrrtc.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4047","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=4047"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/yrrtc.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4047\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4052,"href":"https:\/\/yrrtc.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4047\/revisions\/4052"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/yrrtc.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4047"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/yrrtc.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4047"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/yrrtc.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4047"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}