{"id":4865,"date":"2017-01-11T16:57:03","date_gmt":"2017-01-11T21:57:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/vivanext.com\/blog\/?p=4865"},"modified":"2018-09-19T09:26:55","modified_gmt":"2018-09-19T14:26:55","slug":"a-connected-transit-terminal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/yrrtc.ca\/blog\/2017\/01\/11\/a-connected-transit-terminal\/","title":{"rendered":"a connected transit terminal"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/vivanext.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/01\/Blog_Corp_2017_01_11_vmcTerminal.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-4866\" title=\"a connected transit terminal\" src=\"http:\/\/vivanext.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/01\/Blog_Corp_2017_01_11_vmcTerminal.jpg\" alt=\"a connected transit terminal\" width=\"450\" height=\"249\" srcset=\"https:\/\/yrrtc.ca\/blog\/vivanext.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/01\/Blog_Corp_2017_01_11_vmcTerminal.jpg 450w, https:\/\/yrrtc.ca\/blog\/vivanext.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/01\/Blog_Corp_2017_01_11_vmcTerminal-300x166.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 450px) 100vw, 450px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>This morning, we marked the beginning of construction for a new YRT bus terminal in Vaughan Metropolitan Centre [VMC]. The <a title=\"News Release: Bus terminal to be built in Vaughan for YRT\" href=\"http:\/\/www.vivanext.com\/newsroom\/related\/mediarelease\/bus-terminal-to-be-built-in-vaughan-for-york-region-transit\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">news release<\/a> gives the basic project information, but doesn\u2019t delve into how this terminal will connect in the GTA transit network:<\/p>\n<p><strong>bus<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Well, it <em>is<\/em> a bus terminal. YRT buses will use this terminal, <a title=\"YRT.ca: route maps\" href=\"https:\/\/www.yrt.ca\/en\/schedules-and-maps\/yrt-viva-system.aspx\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">taking customers in and out of York Region\u2019s neighbourhoods<\/a> and to places farther away like Brampton and northern Toronto. Customers will also be able to walk to the VMC vivastation in the middle of Highway 7, where Viva will take them away on dedicated bus rapid transit lanes. They\u2019ll walk about two minutes above ground, or when the weather is frightful they\u2019ll take the underground path and escalator, elevator and stairs to reach the vivastation.<\/p>\n<p><strong>subway<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Customers will take the underground path or walk along landscaped paths outside to the VMC Subway Station entrance just south of the terminal, to access the underground concourse for the Toronto-York Spadina Subway Extension. The subway concourse is actually under the vivastation on Highway 7 \u2013 stay tuned for a future blog about this.<\/p>\n<p><strong>walking and cycling<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The VMC area is planned as a walkable area with tree-lined sidewalks and places to live, work, shop and take transit. The terminal will meet accessibility standards, and customers will be able to walk or cycle there from any direction.<\/p>\n<p><strong>driving<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The terminal is near the intersection of Highway 400 ad Highway 407, so a passenger pick-up and drop off [aka. \u201ckiss \u2018n ride\u201d] will be included, encouraging carpooling.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>So it\u2019s not your typical bus terminal and it\u2019s more than a place to wait for the bus. It\u2019s about connections, and where they\u2019ll take you from here.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This morning, we marked the beginning of construction for a new YRT bus terminal in Vaughan Metropolitan Centre [VMC]. The news release gives the basic project information, but doesn\u2019t delve into how this terminal will connect in the GTA transit network: bus Well, it is a bus terminal. YRT buses will use this terminal, taking [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,626,67,59,1067,19],"tags":[319,887,943,986,888,21,139,48,175,7,859,9,253],"class_list":["post-4865","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-announcements","category-facilities-and-terminals","category-stations","category-subways","category-transit","category-urban-planning","tag-bus","tag-connected","tag-construction","tag-smartcentres-place-bus-terminal","tag-terminal","tag-transit","tag-ttc","tag-vaughan","tag-vaughan-metropolitan-centre","tag-vivanext","tag-vmc","tag-york-region","tag-yrt"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/yrrtc.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4865","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=4865"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/yrrtc.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4865\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5486,"href":"https:\/\/yrrtc.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4865\/revisions\/5486"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/yrrtc.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4865"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/yrrtc.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4865"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/yrrtc.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4865"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}