{"id":507,"date":"2009-07-16T10:58:09","date_gmt":"2009-07-16T15:58:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/vivanext.com\/blog\/?p=507"},"modified":"2009-12-22T14:56:14","modified_gmt":"2009-12-22T19:56:14","slug":"metrolinx-committed-to-breaking-ground-on-vivanext-rapidways-this-fall","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/yrrtc.ca\/blog\/2009\/07\/16\/metrolinx-committed-to-breaking-ground-on-vivanext-rapidways-this-fall\/","title":{"rendered":"Metrolinx committed to breaking ground on vivaNext rapidways this fall."},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_508\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-508\" style=\"width: 220px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-508\" title=\"Metrolinx President and CEO Rob Prichard takes questions from reporters after the public session of the July 13 meeting\" src=\"http:\/\/vivanext.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/07\/prichard_crop_2009_07_16.jpg\" alt=\"Metrolinx President and CEO Rob Prichard takes questions from reporters after the public session of the July 13 meeting\" width=\"220\" height=\"158\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-508\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Metrolinx President and CEO Robert Prichard takes questions from reporters after the public session of the July 13 meeting.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p><a title=\"Metrolinx\" href=\"http:\/\/www.metrolinx.com\/en\/default.aspx\" target=\"_blank\">Metrolinx<\/a>, the body created by the <a title=\"Government of Ontario\" href=\"http:\/\/www.ontario.ca\/en\/residents\/index.htm\" target=\"_blank\">Government of Ontario<\/a> to develop and implement an integrated transportation plan for the <a title=\"GTHA\" href=\"http:\/\/www.news.ontario.ca\/mto\/en\/2009\/03\/greater-toronto-and-hamilton-area-transit-implementation-act-2009.html\" target=\"_blank\">Greater Toronto and Hamilton Area<\/a>, is committed to working with <a title=\"vivaNext\" href=\"http:\/\/www.vivanext.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">Viva<\/a> toward a fall 2009 construction start date for the <a title=\"Rapidways\" href=\"http:\/\/www.vivanext.com\/rapidways\" target=\"_blank\">rapidways project<\/a>. During their July 13th public board meeting, <a title=\"Robert Prichard\" href=\"http:\/\/www.metrolinx.com\/en\/bioRobPrichard.aspx\" target=\"_blank\">Metrolinx President and CEO Robert Prichard<\/a> said, \u201cProgress is going very well indeed. We want to break ground this fall and we are working hard to do so.\u201d  During the meeting, Metrolinx <a title=\"John Howe\" href=\"http:\/\/www.metrolinx.com\/en\/bioJohnHowe.aspx\" target=\"_blank\">General Manager of Investment Strategy and Projects John Howe<\/a> presented <a title=\"Davis Dr. rapidway\" href=\"http:\/\/www.vivanext.com\/gallery_rapid_construction\" target=\"_blank\">our renderings of the Davis Drive rapidway<\/a> to show how it will look in the future. They generated a lot of excitement amongst those in attendance.<\/p>\n<p>If you would like to see the renderings presented at the meeting for yourself click <a title=\"Davis Dr. rapidway\" href=\"http:\/\/www.vivanext.com\/gallery_rapid_construction\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a> or visit vivaNext.com, where you\u2019ll also find a link to the <a title=\"Metrolinx\" href=\"http:\/\/www.metrolinx.com\/en\/default.aspx\" target=\"_blank\">Metrolinx website<\/a> in case you are also interested in viewing the <a title=\"Metrolinx meeting agenda\" href=\"http:\/\/www.metrolinx.com\/Docs\/Agendas\/Jul13_09\/Board_Agenda-July13_2009Meeting_Web_Posting_Jul08_09-FINAL.pdf\" target=\"_blank\">meeting agenda<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Metrolinx, the body created by the Government of Ontario to develop and implement an integrated transportation plan for the Greater Toronto and Hamilton Area, is committed to working with Viva toward a fall 2009 construction start date for the rapidways project. During their July 13th public board meeting, Metrolinx President and CEO Robert Prichard said, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,30,19],"tags":[40,39,18,8,119,22,14,34,120,13,21,11,939,6,7,9],"class_list":["post-507","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-press","category-rapidways","category-urban-planning","tag-brt","tag-bus-rapid-transit","tag-city-planning","tag-connections","tag-metrolinx","tag-ontario","tag-rapid-transit","tag-rapidway","tag-robert-prichard","tag-toronto","tag-transit","tag-transit-only-lanes","tag-urban-planning","tag-viva","tag-vivanext","tag-york-region"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/yrrtc.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/507","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=507"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/yrrtc.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/507\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1061,"href":"https:\/\/yrrtc.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/507\/revisions\/1061"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/yrrtc.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=507"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/yrrtc.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=507"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/yrrtc.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=507"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}