Frequent express buses on Hurontario is one to two years away in Mississauga and two to three years away in Brampton. Higher order transit is in the 5 to 10 year horizon. Over the next 25 years frequencies on the GO line will gradually increase to the point where we'll have subway-like frequencies at least to Cooksville. A heavy rail connection between the Milton GO line and the Mississauga City Centre district is beyond the vision of the plan.
Sad point, unless buses go into SQ One, Ridership will be next to none for express buses. Anything over 15 minutes a waste of resources. 19 already wasting 15 minutes of riders time going into and out of the terminal now who want to go to either side of the terminal in the first place.
"IF" a new terminal was built where that new plaza is going up on Sq One Dr, then an express service would work. A new terminal has to be built in the north east corner of Sq One that can support, subway, LRT, BRT, REX and local service. It will have to be 3+ levels and be able to handle 100,000 riders daily.
Again, this RTP is not a "BOLD" plan.
I did the planning game at York RTP and our first go at doing a plan on $15B budget was over budget. We had express service on the LakeShore from Hamilton to Oshawa, RH line, Lower part of the Barrie line, CNR line from Pickering to Brampton, LRT on Hurontario, LRT from Downsview to York University, a subway extension from Kipling to the Airport and that came in at $20.5B. Our second try was still over budget.
My table was all rookies and they wanted to connect all the large dots with express services. Some will only require Regional service since ridership will not be there in the first place.
If you get a chance, try the game.
The game reinforce what I have said from day one (2003), need a check for $3B a year for capital cost for 20 years to put a transit system in the GTA. Based on more detail look back in 2005/6, it now $7B/year. The $7B allows more subway expansion as well local service improvement. On top of this, you need operating cost. Then you need to add in the expansion outside the GTA that been talked about.