Highway 427 BRT

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Highway 427 North / South BRT
Overview
StatusProposed
Locale Toronto/Mississauga, Ontario
Termini Kipling station
Pearson Airport
Renforth Gateway
Highway 7
Technical
Line length17 kilometres (11 mi)
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A Bus rapid transit (BRT) corridor is proposed on Highway 427 as part of Metrolinx's regional transportation for the Greater Toronto and Hamilton Area, The Big Move . [1] This BRT line would be established in two separate segments. The southern segment would begin at the Toronto Transit Commission's Kipling station on Line 2 and proceed north along Highway 427 to Renforth station, the eastern terminus of the Mississauga Transitway. This southern segment would help augment the existing 900 Airport Rocket bus service. The northern segment would start at Toronto Pearson International Airport, and proceed non-stop to bus rapidways on Highway 7 in York Region and Queen Street in Brampton. [2]

Bus rapid transit

Bus rapid transit (BRT), also called a busway or transitway, is a bus-based public transport system designed to improve capacity and reliability relative to a conventional bus system. Typically, a BRT system includes roadways that are dedicated to buses, and gives priority to buses at intersections where buses may interact with other traffic; alongside design features to reduce delays caused by passengers boarding or leaving buses, or purchasing fares. BRT aims to combine the capacity and speed of a metro with the flexibility, lower cost and simplicity of a bus system.

Ontario Highway 427 highway in Ontario

King's Highway 427, also known as Highway 427 and colloquially as the 427, is a 400-series highway in the Canadian province of Ontario that connects the Queen Elizabeth Way (QEW) and Gardiner Expressway with York Regional Road 7 via Highway 401. An arterial extension, known as York Regional Road 99, continues 800 metres (2,600 ft) north to Zenway Boulevard. It is Ontario's second busiest freeway by volume and third busiest in North America, behind Highway 401 and Interstate 405 in California. Like Highway 401, a portion of the route is divided into a collector-express system with twelve to fourteen continuous lanes. Notable about Highway 427 are its several multi-level interchanges; the junctions with the QEW/Gardiner Expressway and Highway 401 are two of the largest interchanges in Ontario and were constructed between 1967 and 1971, while the interchanges with Highway 409 and Highway 407 are more recent and were completed in 1992 and 1995, respectively.

Metrolinx crown agency owned by the Government of Ontario

Metrolinx is a Crown agency that manages and integrates road and public transport in the Golden Horseshoe region, which includes the cities of Toronto and Hamilton and area, in the province of Ontario in Canada. Headquartered in Union Station in Toronto, the organization was created by the Government of Ontario as the "Greater Toronto Transportation Authority" on April 24, 2006. It adopted "Metrolinx" as its brand name in 2007 and legally changed its name to Metrolinx in 2009.

The extension of Highway 427 to Major Mackenzie Drive includes a dedicated three station right-of-way on the west side with terminus and loop located north of Major Mackenzie. [3] :17

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References

  1. "The Big Move". Metrolinx. 2008. Retrieved April 22, 2015.
  2. Assessing City of Toronto and Metrolinx Rapid Transit Priorities (PDF) (Report). City of Toronto. June 3, 2013. Retrieved November 12, 2015.
  3. "Review of the 427 extension transportation corridor: Environmental Assessment" (PDF). Ontario Ministry of the Environment. April 2010. Retrieved 8 January 2018.