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Dundas Connects documents are up. Presentation link. Display board link.

Ugh, I should've gone. My guess is either cut a project, or reduced the number of buses to be bought, and redirected some of the money to go towards an Alternative LRT extensions EA.

From the ION Facebook page, we have an almost complete Erb/Caroline intersection.

Transportation planning/Brampton Transit didn't identify Dixie as a RT corridor in the most recent transportation masterplan. They'd rather prioritze Bramalea. Bramalea has more destinations, whereas Dixie has ridership.

Brampton will submit six projects to the federal Public Transit Infrastructure Fund I think TOAreaFan and I will agree that routing the new Airport Zum to Bramalea GO instead of further south is dumb.

Phase 1 Interim Summary Report Niagara GO Hub and Transit Stations Study (page 198 of the PDF)

Proposed fare changes for Jan. 30, 2017 Adult and senior tickets up by 10 cents Post-secondary Presto e-purse fares up by 15 cents Page 53

It says in the actual report that Mississauga staff worked in conjunction with Brampton staff on this. It also said, when describing examples of stops that might receive which level, that "Gateway" (the Steeles Terminal) would be level 3. Obviously, the diagram shows the Mississauga portion to...

Report going to Mississauga's General Committee on LRT stop hierarchy (starts on PDF page 26)

Mississauga will pay a portion of operating costs, determined through MOU/Master Agreement (page 37) Likely to go for Design Build Finance Operate Maintain (DBFOM) process. (page 38 from above linked report) From the EPR LRT Streetscape and Design Strategy (page 19), platforms are supposed to...

Maybe to match ION blue?

So the old Eatons/Zellers/Target space at Bramalea City Centre (like all former Target locations in Brampton) is being subdivided. No more giant anchor tenant on the west side of the mall. Anyone know what is coming? I know of one retailer, but it's under press embargo, otherwise I'd let out...

Contrary to popular belief, heritage planning isn't always about how pretty a building is.

UNIQLO opens at Yorkdale on October 20

UNIQLO Launches First Canadian Store at CF Toronto Eaton Centre on Friday, September 30

Feds have announced funding for Toronto cycling initiatives (link here): Eglinton Connects Streetscape Improvements and Cycle Tracks = $8,900,000 West Toronto Railpath Extension = $11,750,000 East Don Trail = $11,250,000 Bicycle parking at 40 TTC stations = $425,000 Bike Share Toronto...

Federal funding for Bike Share Toronto Expansion at 50 TTC stations ($1,250,000). At this link.

Here's a list of specifically where money is going. TTC gets the bulk of it, with Ottawa second, and then Sudbury, Barrie, and Waterloo Region sharing the rest.

A friend FOI'ed Metrolinx for the Presto data for Brampton Transit by route. Keeping in mind that 80% of Brampton Transit users use Presto as payment, here are yearly ridership numbers from 2015: 1 Queen + 501 Queen: 4,308,085 2 Main + 502 Main: 3,050,855

Yes, well we all know how council is going to vote on this one ("MADE IN BRAMPTON LRT SOLUTION").