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I'll just quote what he said.


You heard it here first.

I was on a panel with my good friend Mayor McCallion last night and I'm pleased to annouce that the City of Mississauga will be moving forward with plans to build an LRT along Hurontario Street.

The crowd burst out in loud appluse when this annouced.

City officials will be meeting with the transportation firm Semens next week and will ask for a concept plan for an LRT line along Mississauga's and the 905's most urban and busiest corridor.

This would be a priority project along with the BRT line that already has provincial funding of $225 + milliong and is awaiting matching Federal funding.

The Mayor made it clear that the subway will NEVER be extended to Mississauga, because it is far too expensive. LRT and BRT is the wave of the future.

I hope to present more details soon, but this is a major step forward for Mississauga's transit system.

Louroz

Thats great news for Miss. Is this goibng to be a true rapid transit system like CTrain or just a nicer looking streetcar?

thats fantastic news!

Next stop: rapid transit from Square One to Kipling

Thats great news for Miss. Is this goibng to be a true rapid transit system like CTrain or just a nicer looking streetcar?

Honestly there isnt enough details yet. It will probably be a hybrid like Houston has, mixes in with traffic but also has its own ROW in spots. Thats just a guess though.

If they are going to so it they should do it right from the start.
They should use Calgary's CTrain as a model.

Wow! This is great news! And none too early either. They could have started this 5 years ago, if they wanted to.

I'm not certain how LRT works, but an LRT on Hurontario would have to be mixed with traffic south of MCC, since their are a lot of developments that require access to the street, including some houses south of the QEW. North of MCC, there is much less of this, so an LRT can be fully separated from traffic. Around MCC, it will likely have to tunnel underground or be elevated to connect to the transit terminal. Otherwise, they will have to move the transit terminal itself.

hey, i doubt this will happen, but they should run it all the way up to Brampton. How cool would that be?

Damn it all, Hurontario deserves a subway. A line that connects 3 nodes (Brampton downtown, Mississauga Sqaure One, and Port Credit).

I guess I live in a fantasy world. :crazy:

What's happening with Acceliride, Brampton's LRT project? Couldn't they connect the two? Good news either.

Brampton's Acceleride is not an LRT project, it is BRT. They might still develop BRT on Main to connect to this LRT, but I think it is much better to work with Mississauga get this LRT built all the way to Downtown Brampton. Such an LRT would actually connect 5 major nodes/terminals: Port Credit, Cooksville, MCC, Shoppers World, and Downtown Brampton. It would connect to Queen St (Highway 7), which is Brampton's and York Region's rapid transit line.

LRT could actually work on that route. The traffic on that street is absolutely horrible.

what is LRT gonna be like...will it be a variant of scarborough RT...or better?

mississauga needs it.... dundas and hurontario need it badly...i'm glad they might finally do something with hurontario

^ The LRT will probably be like Spadina, running in a transitway down the middle of the road, except with modern light rail vehicles.

never heard of the technology...it will be great for the city

Be nice if there was one across the 401, so you could go from say mavis all the way to markham road, with offshots down all the major roads. IMO this would significantly reduce traffic on the 401.

LOL Highway Median transit systems scare away passengers. Allen Rd.

Mississauga=Sprawl at its peak

Bahh, who cares.

What the whole GTA needs to look at tho is you take stats on where the cars are comming from, and where thier destination is. Don't just build it along busy roads.

But thats my opinion.

Building it like the Spadina ROW won't do much. It will certainly make the route more reliable but not any quicker. It would get stuck at all stop light, crossing traffic at main intersections.

Good for Mississauga. It would be benificial for the TTC if Mississauga was to connect this LRT to Kipling so that Islington could have some pressure lifted off of it.

^ I think the TTC should extend B-D subway along Dundas to Hurontario, while MT builds LRT lines on Burnhamthorpe and Bloor.

Hazel McCallion and Susan Fennell should quit their bitching and work together to have this Hurontario LRT built all the way to Downtown Brampton.

LRT should be built along Dixie as well, from Bramelea City Centre all the way to Long Branch, to connect with GO Train and TTC streetcar. Along the way it would connect to extended B-D subway.

Both Dixie and Hurontario LRT would connect to Brampton's and York Region's so-called rapid transit line along Highway 7.

Both would connect to Lakeshore Rd too, so an LRT there might not be bad idea either. It is the most urban corridor in Mississauga after all.

^Agreed.

^ I think the TTC should extend B-D subway along Dundas to Hurontario, while MT builds LRT lines on Burnhamthorpe and Bloor.

Hazel McCallion and Susan Fennell should quit their bitching and work together to have this Hurontario LRT built all the way to Downtown Brampton.

LRT should be built along Dixie as well, from Bramelea City Centre all the way to Long Branch, to connect with GO Train and TTC streetcar. Along the way it would connect to extended B-D subway.

Both Dixie and Hurontario LRT would connect to Brampton's and York Region's so-called rapid transit line along Highway 7.

Both would connect to Lakeshore Rd too, so an LRT there might not be bad idea either. It is the most urban corridor in Mississauga after all.

I 100% agree with u....but i will add to that

there are many concerns for me with transit service in mississauga right now....those are:

1) it's gotten to the point where mississauga west is growing like mutated chicken...burnhamthorpe west between south common and mavis are starting to get really congested...even at non-rush hour times....11am-2pm there is still dense traffic
2)hurontario from port credit until about eglinton: almost every main road that intersects hurontario has huge traffic issues...route 19 is packed with people ALL DAY long and have buses running every ten minutes...THAT's TOO DENSE...plus you don't want to drive at hurontario and dundas...ppl get angry and impatient at that intersection...it's so unreal
3)dixie is full of so much cars i can't even jaywalk it anymore...
4)lakeshore rd. is not that dense right now....but southdown and lakeshore....and...long branch area really need some help
5)dundas is pretty much packed the whole way thru mississauga from winston churchill all the way to islington

so doady what u have is a great idea...and you definitely know the city well

BTW i really really think kipling is too far of a station for mississaugans to connect to...we need a dixie station definitely

Stupid shit to the max, Suburb cities shouldn't be allowed to build subways, LRT. Because you know what...It makes no fucking sense. If the TTC built a LRT with MKII Technology into sauga that would make sense.

Stupid shit to the max, Suburb cities shouldn't be allowed to build subways, LRT. Because you know what...It makes no fucking sense. If the TTC built a LRT with MKII Technology into sauga that would make sense.

It sounds great but Toronto will not do that unless mississauga would be amalgamated with toronto....and that won't happen until after hazel passes on

Mississauga needs a LRT along Hurontario and Dundas (that intersection is crazy). The TTC would never build a LRT out into Mississauga. They have no money to build new subways within the city, why'd the build it in the suburbs.

Also, I doubt any LRT in Mississauga would go into Brampton, and if it did, just as far as Shopper's World. You may know that Mississauga wants to become independent from Brampton and Brampton's mayor is all pissy about it cause Mississauga pays for about 70% of the Region of Peel's expenses despite have only about 65% of the total population, which, if the seperation did occur, would save Mississauga residents over $32 million dollars (a good capital investment for a LRT).

It sounds great but Toronto will not do that unless mississauga would be amalgamated with toronto....and that won't happen until after hazel passes on

There's no way Mississauga would ever approve of amalgamtion. People in Mississauga have seen what's happened to Toronto and basically we're happy being the 6th largest city on our own. Also, we're fortunate because we have some of the best schools and services in the GTA and one of the lowest property taxes too.