I believe there are contradictions with your claims
@innsertnamehere. If the area is so inhospitable to pedestrians, then that would make it more likely for residents to take VIVA instead of walking over the 400. The majority of the blocks in this master plan are within 500m of the BRT station, whereas they are looking at a 1.85km to 2km or more walk to VMC over said extremely inhospitable environment. The standard rule in transportation planning is that people are willing to walk between 500m and 800m to transit.
Yes, Hwy-7 is essentially a freeway, but the residents in this development don't need to traverse it for long except next to the Centro Square development on their way to the VIVA station. The residents will instead be walking through that new street traversing the master plan, which looks to be intended as a pedestrian friendly and landscaped environment, and not miserable suburban conditions like Hwy-7 or Weston Road nearby.
Sounds like to me the only real issue is fare integration between VIVA and the Line 1 subway, which is an institutional problem, not a development planning problem. This development has to be considered from a planning lens, which considers BRT stations like VIVA as rapid transit in the same manner as LRT or subway stations and doesn't consider concerns such as fare integration.