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They are developing the land? They have like 3 different projects on the go down there right now, it takes time. It's not like there is much traffic on Enterprise right now anyway, there is no real need for the dedicated lanes right now.
The problem is that the road system is problematic for Viva service. The GO station is at a dead end of YMCA Blvd. The main Purple buses turn from Rivis Road onto YMCA Blvd, bypassing the station. It's not a long walk, but it's annoying if you're taking a bus to the GO train. The new transitway will make everything function better.
Why hasn't Remington developed that land? They have acquired it and left it vacant for at least a decade. Someone siad they are waiting for Buttonville airport to close - is that true?
Yes I know, but it's still annoying to not have the Purple line stop in the station itself. The bus platforms should of course be closer than the farthest parking spots. As I said, it's a temporary problem so not a huge deal.
It's a huge chunk of land. These things take time. The York University campus will be in that area.
There is such thing as market absorption rates. They can't go build 30,000 condo units at once, they have to build them one at a time to let the market absorb the new stock. Which they are doing.
The section between Birchmount and Unionville GO will be paid for by development charges as Downtown Markham gets built out. Seeing as the traffic in that area is far from congested I don't really think there's any rush. I believe this is also supposed to be coordinated with updates to Unionville GO station that will be adding another platform and I believe shifting the platform north a bit to enhance VIVA rapidway connections. It's also unclear how the VIVA rapidway will interact with the Rail bridge, will it just take two of the existing lanes? Will the bridge be expanded, will they only have one bi-directional transit-only lane?
You are driving them nuts.
But are my questions good questions?
An update on Red Cedar Ave here:
