{"id":5699,"date":"2019-12-21T10:55:11","date_gmt":"2019-12-21T15:55:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/yrrtc.ca\/?p=5699"},"modified":"2019-12-21T10:56:07","modified_gmt":"2019-12-21T15:56:07","slug":"happy-holidays-all-aboard","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/yrrtc.ca\/blog\/2019\/12\/21\/happy-holidays-all-aboard\/","title":{"rendered":"happy holidays\u2026 all aboard!"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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We all have our favourite seasonal stories. Some love the old\nclassics, others like the Grinch or Charlie Brown. Here at vivaNext we lean\ntoward stories of transit of course, like The\nPolar Express<\/em> for example. Maybe that\u2019s because we identify with the boy in\nthe story, just a little bit. We may not have been waiting for a magical train\nto the North Pole, but since before the 2005 launch of Viva service, we\u2019ve\nbelieved in the possibility of a connected rapid transit network. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Back then, the vision to connect and transform communities wasn\u2019t tangible. It seemed unbelievable that even one street would be transformed, let alone 34 km<\/a>. But just a few years later we felt the magic of watching a Viva bus pull up to York Region\u2019s very first vivastation<\/a> at Warden and Enterprise in Markham.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Later, we saw Highway 7 East<\/a> transform from a highway with gravel shoulders into a walkable destination with tree-lined sidewalks, and new places to live and work. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

It wasn\u2019t long before Davis Drive<\/a> began to take shape in Newmarket, then the Highway 7 West rapidway<\/a> and subway extension in Vaughan Metropolitan Centre<\/a>. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

This year, we\u2019ve jumped ahead in our journey, with a new terminal<\/a> open for service in November, new segments of rapidway open in September<\/a> and November<\/a> \u2013 and even more rapidway corridors opening soon in Vaughan<\/a> and Newmarket<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

So now, the vision of connecting and transforming\ncommunities has come to life. This is the season to believe, so let\u2019s believe\nin future possibilities. Instead of hoping for a magical Polar Express<\/em> train to the North Pole, we\u2019ll be moving forward with\nthe Yonge Subway Extension to Highway 7, and a connected network of bus rapid\ntransit across York Region.\n\nThank you for believing, and have a safe and\nhappy holiday!\n\n\n\n<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

We all have our favourite seasonal stories. Some love the old classics, others like the Grinch or Charlie Brown. Here at vivaNext we lean toward stories of transit of course, like The Polar Express for example. Maybe that\u2019s because we identify with the boy in the story, just a little bit. We may not have […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[280,959],"tags":[455,1128,34,1078,7,468],"class_list":["post-5699","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-fun-games","category-history","tag-holiday","tag-polar","tag-rapidway","tag-vision","tag-vivanext","tag-yrrtc"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/yrrtc.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5699","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=5699"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/yrrtc.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5699\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5707,"href":"https:\/\/yrrtc.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5699\/revisions\/5707"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/yrrtc.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5699"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/yrrtc.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5699"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/yrrtc.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5699"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}