{"id":5075,"date":"2017-07-05T08:13:12","date_gmt":"2017-07-05T13:13:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/yrrtc.ca\/?p=5075"},"modified":"2017-07-05T08:13:12","modified_gmt":"2017-07-05T13:13:12","slug":"yonge-subway-extension-moving-forward","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/yrrtc.ca\/blog\/2017\/07\/05\/yonge-subway-extension-moving-forward\/","title":{"rendered":"Yonge Subway Extension moving forward"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"Yonge<\/p>\n

Recently, the Government of Canada announced more than $36 million in federal funding<\/a> to support the planning and preliminary engineering of the proposed 7.4 km extension of the existing Yonge Subway line into York Region.<\/p>\n

This is a positive announcement for York Region and for the entire GTA, because it allows this critical project to move one step closer.
\nnumber one transit priority<\/strong><\/p>\n

Yonge Subway Extension continues to be the top transit priority of York Regional Council, the Region\u2019s nine municipal governments and many of the Region\u2019s business organizations. It\u2019s part of the Metrolinx Next Wave projects and the Government of Ontario committed $55 million to the project last year for design work.
\n2,500 reasons to move forward<\/strong><\/p>\n

Today, this segment of Yonge Street requires 2,500 bus trips a day to accommodate the current ridership. If the subway is extended, really all of these buses would no longer be needed, significantly reducing traffic congestion and eliminating over 28 tonnes of greenhouse gas emissions per workday.
\ngood for business<\/strong><\/p>\n

The Region is Canada\u2019s fastest-growing large municipality, home to Canada\u2019s high tech capital and two of the GTA\u2019s four Employment Megazones \u2013 Highway 404\/Highway 407, and Highway 400\/Highway 7.<\/p>\n

One of Ontario\u2019s largest business communities, the Region has over 50,000 businesses and almost 600,000 jobs, with an average of 13,000 new jobs every year. Over the last five years, York Region\u2019s workforce has grown at an average annual rate of 3.1%, surpassing growth rates in the nation, province and GTA.
\nThe Yonge Subway Extension will move two riders every second of the day, on average making it easier for everyone to get where they need to go. It\u2019s exciting to see this project \u2013 the GTA\u2019s missing link – moving forward!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Recently, the Government of Canada announced more than $36 million in federal funding to support the planning and preliminary engineering of the proposed 7.4 km extension of the existing Yonge Subway line into York Region. This is a positive announcement for York Region and for the entire GTA, because it allows this critical project to […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,59],"tags":[8,61,10,60,234,637],"class_list":["post-5075","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-announcements","category-subways","tag-connections","tag-richmond-hill","tag-subway-extension","tag-yonge-st","tag-yonge-subway-extension","tag-yse"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/yrrtc.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5075","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=5075"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/yrrtc.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5075\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5077,"href":"https:\/\/yrrtc.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5075\/revisions\/5077"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/yrrtc.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5075"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/yrrtc.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5075"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/yrrtc.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5075"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}