That Port Credit transfer looks awesome. A good example of a properly integrated station design, IMO. At least ML is putting in effort to get it right when the line in question is LSW, while the poor Milton line gets commuterzoned again in design ways that will make it harder to RERify in 20-30 years or whenever that line finally stops getting neglected and ignored.
 
khaldoon said:
The parking garage will more than pay for itself by allowing Metrolinx to sell some of the surface parking space to land developers. Most of it will end up as condos few years from now.
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Maybe Section 42 money from the coming developments could somehow fix the connection?
 
From a news release with the City's pre-budget requests to the five federal MPs in Brampton.

"Funding commitment to extend the Hurontario-Main St. LRT to the Downtown Brampton GO station, while work continues on the Environmental Assessment"

www.brampton.ca

Brampton seeks fair and timely Federal and Provincial funding to unlock economic potential

City provides input into Federal and Provincial 2020 Pre-Budget consultations BRAMPTON, ON (January 25, 2020) – The City of Brampton is advocating on a number of key priorities as part of the Federal and Provincial governments’ 2020 pre-budget consultations.
www.brampton.ca www.brampton.ca
 
The Federal Government should definitely commit to partially funding the Brampton GO extension. As long as they don't put an actual dollar value on their contribution, or any timeline, of course. Positive-sounding fluff should be met with positive-sounding fluff.
 
https://twitter.com/x/status/1220079097721827328
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Milton GO corridor has running for about 3 hours a day.. It's not the end of the world. They have protected for a direct connection to be built at a later time, I imagine it'll happen if Milton ever gets RER service.
 
innsertnamehere said:
Milton GO corridor has running for about 3 hours a day.. It's not the end of the world. They have protected for a direct connection to be built at a later time, I imagine it'll happen if Milton ever gets RER service.
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Six hours a day and those are the busiest rush hours and during which you will have the largest number of potential riders. It is a hassle now to try to catch the northbound 19 bus and you see people jay walking across a busy street trying to catch the bus. I know they cut the connection because of cost but I imagine a simpler/cheap solution with only a pedestrian bridge from the median to the west side of Hurontario could be very workable.
 
^^ it's also the third busiest line on the GO network after the lake shore lines nad needs more trains regardless of RER
 
Hopefully, they won't order more grey LRT vehicles for this line. With all the concrete "finishes" that Metrolinx seems to love to use to achieve a "high-quality public realm", it's too much grey.
 
BhadPetrov said:
^^ at least they're buying more buses, unlike miway...
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About 103 miWay buses in 2021 and 11 NFI D60E buses this year. How many buses will be remove from Route 19 & 103 in 2024 that will be use elsewhere or be retire??? How many buses is Brampton getting this year and why do they still have 400 series buses in 2020??? What has this got to do with the LRT in the first place?
 
BhadPetrov said:
^^ at least they're buying more buses, unlike miway...
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Yes, Brampton is buying quite a few buses, and it appears that includes adding articulated buses to the regular bus fleet. Unfortunately it is also getting 0 new service hours.

drum118 said:
About 103 miWay buses in 2021 and 11 NFI D60E buses this year. How many buses will be remove from Route 19 & 103 in 2024 that will be use elsewhere or be retire??? How many buses is Brampton getting this year and why do they still have 400 series buses in 2020??? What has this got to do with the LRT in the first place?
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Brampton still has some buses from 2002, they will be phased out this year when the new buses come in. Brampton uses 18 year lifespans for buses.


On LRT related news the City of Brampton will be hosting public open houses in the spring on this topic
 
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