[doady]

Dundas is a pale shadow of its former self. Now 15 minute Local service all day instead of 8-10 minutes. No more branch to bypass UTM. Riders of 45 Winston Churchill looking for an East-West Route to transfer to now forced into UTM, because 26 Burnhamthorpe does NOT GO WEST OF SOUTH COMMON. Express service to Uptown Core still not restored despite shortening of route at Kipling and continued development along the Dundas Street in Oakville. With the loss of the 1C, the residents along The Collegeway are forced to use the useless 48 Erin Mills instead. Sad!

 

[Toffy]

Dundas is a pale shadow of its former self. Now 15 minute Local service all day instead of 8-10 minutes. No more branch to bypass UTM. Riders of 45 Winston Churchill looking for an East-West Route to transfer to now forced into UTM, because 26 Burnhamthorpe does NOT GO WEST OF SOUTH COMMON. Express service to Uptown Core still not restored despite shortening of route at Kipling and continued development along the Dundas Street in Oakville. With the loss of the 1C, the residents along The Collegeway are forced to use the useless 48 Erin Mills instead. Sad!

Although I do agree that the Dundas service continues to pale in comparison to its pre-pandemic self, this service change nonetheless is a significant improvement from where it currently stands. While those coming from west of UTM along Dundas are now forced to ride through UTM, it would be unwise to overlook the fact that service will be far more frequent than even pre-pandemic service and those connecting along Dundas from the 13, 29, 45 and 110 will have drastically reduced connection times at all times.

Ultimately transit is about trade-offs and for the time being I think it is a decent trade off. I would also point out that riders perceive wait times far more negatively than on-vehicle time. It's well understood that wait time has a 1:1.6 to 1:2 time perception ratio (1 minute of wait time feels like 1.6 to 2 minutes) as compared to the 1:1 time perception ratio for on-vehicle time.

Thankfully there is plans to extend the 26 west past South Common which I think is far overdue.

 

[Sauga89]

Mississauga city council yesterday approved a $13.6 million garage expansion for MiWay. They also approved the purchase of 3.9 acres of vacant land for MiWay, adjacent to the existing Central Parkway garage. The details of the staff report are not being made public, but the motion approving the expansion is public. The motion occurred at the 2 hour 14 minute mark of the recording of the general committee meeting yesterday.

 

[Toffy]

Mississauga city council yesterday approved a $13.6 million garage expansion for MiWay. They also approved the purchase of 3.9 acres of vacant land for MiWay, adjacent to the existing Central Parkway garage. The details of the staff report are not being made public, but the motion approving the expansion is public. The motion occurred at the 2 hour 14 minute mark of the recording of the general committee meeting yesterday.

The $13.6 million is for the acquisition cost of a parcel of land which is located on the southside of Central Parkway adjacent to MiWay's administration office on Semenyk Court. It may only end up being an overflow lot rather than an actual garage building. Based on the available space I would say a conservative estimate for its capacity would be at least 100 buses while allowing for staff parking and adequate space to move vehicles with ease.

Apart from an $8 million capital budget line for garage improvements across 2026-2027 there's currently no other approved capital dollars for garage construction.

 

[drum118]

The $13.6 million is for the acquisition cost of a parcel of land which is located on the southside of Central Parkway adjacent to MiWay's administration office on Semenyk Court. It may only end up being an overflow lot rather than an actual garage building. Based on the available space I would say a conservative estimate for its capacity would be at least 100 buses while allowing for staff parking and adequate space to move vehicles with ease.

Apart from an $8 million capital budget line for garage improvements across 2026-2027 there's currently no other approved capital dollars for garage construction.

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I have seen buses parked there a few times last year and saw no indication as to why that extra space for Central.

 

[RapidTransit]

Hoping to see work on the 3rd garage. Any updates with that?

 

[drum118]

Hoping to see work on the 3rd garage. Any updates with that?

As far as I know, its in designing stage or out to tender for someone to design it. May see a tender in 2027 to build it and open by 2030. Its being design for ebuses with no tenders at this time for them. Once open, buses from the other garages will be shifted there to allow the other garages to be updated and support ebuses in phases.

Don't see any tender or results for the garage

Edit: Came upon a result for MiWay's Infrastructure Growth Plan in 2025 with no date other than December nor what for to AECOM Canada ULC for $597,573.32

 

[Sauga89]

As far as I know, its in designing stage or out to tender for someone to design it. May see a tender in 2027 to build it and open by 2030. Its being design for ebuses with no tenders at this time for them. Once open, buses from the other garages will be shifted there to allow the other garages to be updated and support ebuses in phases.

Don't see any tender or results for the garage

Here is the tender for design work for the third garage.

 

[drum118]

Here is the tender for design work for the third garage.

Thanks. The closing in December is the same timeframe as I posted but it could be the wrong bid. Designing could be underway.