khris
Senior Member
Not bad not bad! With some signage and logos, it would look minimal and clean.
^guided = rails = WK Lis automatically likes it.
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Good to see this project moving along pretty swiftly. I am especially encouraged at the provisions for passing lanes for express buses, something that you could not achieve with 2-track LRT.
Standard station at Renforth with provision to connect to the Eglinton line.
The current ramp off Hurontario to Rathburn is now going to connect with City View. Not sure if there will be left hand turning there or not and if so too close.
Buses using the the BRT will enter or exit off Rathburn just past Hurontarion Street Bridge.
2 elevators for each station and plans are still been look at putting ramps in place of elevators that I have call for since day one.
I am waiting for the board to go up to check some new numbers that have surface that caught my eye.
Standard station at Renforth with provision to connect to the Eglinton line.
Winston Churchill station has be redesign.
Mississauga News
Escalating BRT costs putting City in the hole
Joseph Chin
November 18, 2008 03:00 PM
There isn't a shovel in the ground as yet, but the Mississauga Bus Rapid Transit is already significantly running over budget.
Total project costs are currently estimated at $326 million — reflecting a $67-million (22 per cent) increase over the $259 million committed by the governments of Canada and Ontario, GO Transit and the City of Mississauga. The City will ask Queen's Park and/or Ottawa for the additional funds. The issue will be discussed at tomorrow's general committee meeting. City staff blames increased costs for building bridges, retaining walls and relocating major oil and gas pipelines for the overrun.
"The significant cost escalation pressures ... has proved challenging in the development of the project," said BRT director Geoff Wright, in a corporate report.
So far, 30 per cent of the preliminary design has been completed. In a bid to keep costs down, five of 21 new bridges have been eliminated, among other measures.
"It is important to note that the increase in project costs is not associated with an increase in project scope," Wright pointed out.
The BRT project will see the creation of a dedicated east-west busway across Mississauga that will run along Hwy. 403, Eastgate Pkwy. and Eglinton Ave. corridors, connecting Winston Churchill Blvd. in the west to Renforth Dr. in the east.
Once operational, the BRT will connect with local bus service, GO Transit and the TTC subway, linking high-development and employment centres across Mississauga. The BRT is expected to be up and running by 2012. A GO study estimates that in five years the Mississauga portion of the BRT network could attract nearly 10,000 passengers an hour in the peak direction during rush hours.
Together with the BRT, Mississauga Transit will introduce over the next five years a series of higher-order routes that have similar features to BRT, such as limited stops, higher frequencies and transit priority treatments at key intersections.
Currently, Mississauga Transit provides 29 million rides annually, and officials hope to increase that figure by 25 per cent in the next five years.