The transport infrastructure and services in the Canadian city of Mississauga, Ontario include provincial highways and municipal roads, passenger and freight rail, regional and municipal bus service, and an international airport. It is interconnected with air, road, and rail transportation networks spanning the Greater Toronto Area and beyond.
Mississauga has rail networks that include three GO Transit lines, [1] : 5 an airport rail link, and a light rail transit (LRT) line that is currently under construction.
Three GO Transit rail lines serve Mississauga. [2]
The Kitchener line has one stop in Mississauga, at the Malton GO Station in Malton. [3] The station also has Via Rail service, regional GO bus service, and municipal MiWay bus service.
Six of the nine stations on the Milton line are located in Mississauga. [2] Dixie GO Station in the Dixie neighbourhood, Cooksville GO Station in the Cooksville neighbourhood, Erindale GO Station in the community of Erindale, Streetsville GO Station in Streetsville, Meadowvale GO Station in the community of Meadowvale, and Lisgar GO Station in the Lisgar neighbourhood of Meadowvale. [4] All have regional GO bus service and connect with municipal MiWay bus service. Lisgar GO Station is the western terminus of the 511 Züm Steeles bus rapid transit (BRT) route operated by Brampton Transit. [5]
The Lakeshore West line has two stops in Mississauga. Port Credit GO Station in the Port Credit neighbourhood and Clarkson GO Station in the neighbourhood of Clarkson both have connections with GO Transit and MiWay bus services. Clarkson GO Station also has Oakville Transit bus service. [6]
Union Pearson Express is an airport rail link connecting Toronto Pearson International Airport in Mississauga with Union Station in Downtown Toronto that began service in June 2015. [7] It has one station in Mississauga, Toronto Pearson Terminal 1 station located at Terminal 1 of the airport.
The Hurontario LRT is an under construction 18-kilometre (11 mi) light rail line that will operate along Hurontario Street into Brampton. [8] It will connect with Cooksville GO Station and Port Credit GO Station, and have stops with intersecting bus rapid transit corridors, including the Dundas Street BRT along Dundas Street, the planned 407 Transitway along Highway 407, and the Mississauga Transitway at the City Centre Transit Terminal on Rathburn Road. [8]
The city provides bus service via its public transport agency MiWay, operated by the Transportation and Works department. [9] This includes the Mississauga Transitway; an 18-kilometre (11 mi) grade-separated BRT system spanning most of the city, adjacent to Highway 403 from Winston Churchill Boulevard to Cawthra Road, then paralleling Eastgate Parkway and crossing to the north side of Eglinton Avenue, which it parallels to its terminus at Renforth Drive. [10] [11]
MiWay service connects to the commuter rail service of GO Transit at its stations throughout Mississauga along three railway lines. [1] : 5 It also has connections with nearby transit systems, namely Brampton Transit to the north, Oakville Transit to the west, York Region Transit to the northeast, and the Toronto Transit Commission (TTC) to the east; where a number of bus routes serve the TTC's Line 2 Bloor–Danforth at the Islington and Kipling stations of the Toronto subway. [1] : 4
The Queen Elizabeth Way traverses the southern end of the city from Etobicoke in the northeast to Oakville in the southwest. Also continuing from Etobicoke into Mississauga is Highway 401, which passes south of Toronto Pearson International Airport to the northwest corner of the city and into Milton. There, it intersects with Highway 407, an electronically tolled highway running northeast into Brampton, and southeast toward Lake Ontario and which median defines the municipal boundary between Mississauga and Milton. Where it intersects Highway 403 is the location of the boundaries between Milton in the southwest, Oakville in the southeast, and Mississauga in the north. Highway 401 has six interchanges in Mississauga. [1] : 1
Highway 403 traverses Mississauga to the northeast, turning northwest at Cawthra Road until it intersects Highway 401, where it terminates at a stack interchange. From this point, the highway continues northwest as Highway 410 towards Brampton, [1] : 1 where it intersects Highway 407.
Highway 427 defines some of the municipal boundary between Mississauga and Toronto on the northeast side of Toronto Pearson International Airport, and is intersected by Highway 409 which terminates at the airport and traverses eastward to Highway 401 in Toronto. [1] : 1
The proposed GTA West Corridor would connect to the interchange at Highway 401 and Highway 407 at the northwest periphery of the city. [12]
Toronto Pearson International Airport (YYZ) is the busiest airport in Canada with over 40 million passengers in 2015. [13] It is an international airport which serves the city of Toronto and municipalities in the Greater Toronto Area and beyond. Non-stop domestic flights to all major and many secondary cities throughout Canada are operated from the airport by several airlines. In 1952, the airport became the first in the world to provide facilities for United States border preclearance for flights to the United States. [14] : 4
As of 2013 [update] the airport had 1.2 million sq ft (0.11 million m2) of cargo-handling facilities and a dedicated cargo apron of 2.5 million sq ft (0.23 million m2) with an annual capacity of 1 million t (0.98 million long tons). [1] : 2
The municipal government of Mississauga created a Cycling Master Plan in 2010 and a finalized plan in 2018 that will result in the implementation of 897 kilometres (557 mi) of cycling infrastructure to be built by 2045. [15] These will include: [15]
As of 2018 [update] the city had 54 kilometres (34 mi) of bicycle lanes, 88 kilometres (55 mi) of boulevard multi-use trails, 221 kilometres (137 mi) of off-road multi-use trails, and 91 kilometres (57 mi) of shared routes. [16] : 1 The cost to expand the network is expected to be about $267 million [16] : 7 in annual investments of about $5.3 million. [16] : 8
About 82% of trips of up to 5 kilometres (3.1 mi) within the city are with cars. [16] : 25 As of 2016 [update] , 0.6% of trips are completed using a bicycle by 0.3% of the city's residents; of these, 87% are less than 5 kilometres. [16] : 25
The government of the Regional Municipality of Peel established a Vision Zero policy in December 2017 to reduce road-related injuries and fatalities. [16] : 19 The goal was to reduce such incidents by 10% by 2022, and to (potentially) completely eliminate them in the long term. [16] : 19 A resolution to adopt this policy was passed by Mississauga City Council in February 2018. [16] : 20
Of the 473 reported collisions involving bicycles from 2010 to 2013, half resulted in an injury, 10 of which were major injuries, and 4 of which were fatal. [16] : 29 Over 90% of these occurred at or near intersections. [16] : 29
The Line 5 Eglinton is an underground light rail line under construction in both Mississauga and Toronto that will have a single station in Mississauga adjacent to the Mississauga Transitway's Renforth station. [3] [17] Construction is expected to be completed circa 2030 or 2031, [17] with a later extension to the proposed Pearson Regional Transit Centre to be built later. [18]
The proposed Downtown Mississauga Terminal and Transitway Connection is a "critical piece of transit infrastructure" that would serve the Hurontario LRT, the Mississauga Transitway, and Miway and GO Transit buses. [3]
Two bus rapid transit lines are proposed for the city, one operating along a 2 kilometres (1.2 mi) segment of Lakeshore Road and the other a 48 kilometres (30 mi) line along Dundas Street from Kipling station in Toronto to Highway 6 in Hamilton. [3]
King's Highway 403, or simply Highway 403, is a 400-series highway in the Canadian province of Ontario that travels between Woodstock and Mississauga, branching off from and reuniting with Highway 401 at both ends and travelling south of it through Hamilton and Mississauga. It is concurrent with the Queen Elizabeth Way (QEW) for 22 km (14 mi) from Burlington to Oakville. The Highway 403 designation was first applied in 1963 to a short stub of freeway branching off the QEW, and the entire route was completed on August 15, 1997, when the section from Brantford to the then-still independent Town of Ancaster was opened to traffic. The section of Highway 403 between Woodstock and Burlington was formally dedicated as the Alexander Graham Bell Parkway on April 27, 2016, in honour of Alexander Graham Bell.
MiWay, also known as Mississauga Transit and originally as Mississauga Transit Systems, is the municipal public transport agency serving Mississauga, Ontario, Canada, and is responsible to the city's Transportation and Works Department. MiWay services consist of two types of bus routes: MiLocal, local buses that make frequent stops, and MiExpress, express buses between major destinations. MiWay is the primary operator along the Mississauga Transitway, a dedicated east–west bus-only roadway.
Brampton Transit (BT) is a public transport bus operator for the City of Brampton in the Regional Municipality of Peel, and within the Greater Toronto Area (GTA) in Ontario, Canada. Brampton Transit began operations in 1974. In 2023, the system had a ridership of 49,200,800, or about 219,500 per weekday as of the fourth quarter of 2023.
Eglinton Avenue is a major east–west arterial thoroughfare in Toronto and Mississauga in the Canadian province of Ontario. The street begins at Highway 407 at the western limits of Mississauga, as a continuation of Lower Baseline in Milton. It traverses the midsection of both cities and ends at Kingston Road. Eglinton Avenue is the only street to cross all six former cities and boroughs of Metropolitan Toronto.
Hurontario Street is a roadway running in Ontario, Canada between Lake Ontario at Mississauga and Lake Huron's Georgian Bay at Collingwood. Within Peel Region, it is a major urban thoroughfare within the cities of Mississauga and Brampton, which serves as the divide from which cross-streets are split into East and West, except at its foot in the historic Mississauga neighbourhood of Port Credit. Farther north, with the exception of the section through Simcoe County, where it forms the 8th Concession, it is the meridian for the rural municipalities it passes through. In Dufferin County, for instance, parallel roads are labelled as EHS or WHS for East of Hurontario Street.
The Mississauga Transitway is a bus rapid transit (BRT) system in Mississauga, Ontario, Canada. It comprises a series of purpose-constructed bus-only roadways, as well as reserved lanes on existing city streets and portions of Highway 403, that together form a continuous 18 km (11 mi) route spanning most of the city from Winston Churchill Boulevard in the west to the junction of Highways 401 and 427 in the east on the border with Toronto. Service on the Transitway is provided by MiWay and GO Transit, with some stations providing connections to Brampton Transit and Toronto Transit Commission (TTC) bus services.
Metrolinx is a Crown agency of the Government of Ontario that manages and integrates road and public transport in the Greater Toronto and Hamilton Area (GTHA), which comprises much of Ontario's Golden Horseshoe region. Headquartered at Union Station in Toronto, the agency was created as the Greater Toronto Transportation Authority on June 22, 2006. The agency adopted its present name as a brand name in 2007 and eventually as the legal name in 2009.
Line 6 Finch West, also known as the Finch West LRT, is a light rail line under construction in Toronto, Ontario, Canada, to be operated by the Toronto Transit Commission. The 10.3-kilometre (6.4 mi), 18-stop line is to extend from Finch West station on Line 1 Yonge–University to the North Campus of Humber College in Etobicoke. The line will operate in a dedicated above-ground right-of-way, much of it within Finch Avenue, segregated from street traffic. The line will use transit signal priority and standard gauge rather than the broad Toronto gauge. The line is forecast to carry about 14.6 million rides a year or 40,000 a day by 2031 and will replace the 36B Finch West bus route, which is one of the three busiest bus routes in Toronto. Line 6 was expected to open within the first half of 2024, with an estimated cost of CA$2.5 billion. For budget purposes, the TTC made the assumption that Line 6 would open no earlier than September 2024. However, the builder, Mosaic Transit Group, expects the line to open by the end of 2024.
MoveOntario 2020 was a 2007 plan proposed by the Government of Ontario that would fund 52 rapid-transit projects throughout the Greater Toronto and Hamilton Area in Ontario, Canada. It was succeeded by The Big Move and GO Transit's Go 2020.
Square One Bus Terminal is a GO Transit intercity bus terminal located in central Mississauga, Ontario, Canada. It is situated directly across Rathburn Road West from the City Centre Transit Terminal and the Square One Shopping Centre.
The Hurontario LRT is a light rail line under construction in the cities of Mississauga and Brampton, Ontario, Canada. The line will run along Hurontario Street from Mississauga's Port Credit neighbourhood north to Steeles Avenue in Brampton. The line will be built and operated as a public-private partnership by Mobilinx, a consortium of private European and Japanese companies, with provincial transit agency Metrolinx retaining ownership of the line. It will be the only street railway operating in the Greater Toronto Area outside Toronto proper.
Viscount station is the northerly terminus of the Terminal Link automated people mover serving Toronto Pearson International Airport in Mississauga, Ontario, Canada. It is located on the south side of Viscount Road, between American Drive and Highway 409.
Renforth, referred to during planning as Renforth Gateway, is a bus station on the border of the cities of Mississauga and Toronto, in Ontario, Canada. Located at Eglinton Avenue and Renforth Drive, it is the eastern terminus of the Mississauga Transitway and is close to the interchange between Highway 401 and Highway 427.
502 Züm Main is a bus rapid transit route in Brampton, Ontario which leads south into Mississauga, Ontario. The second corridor, which began service on September 6, 2011, runs from Sandalwood Parkway in the city's north end to MiWay's City Centre Transit Terminal near the Square One Shopping Centre in the south. It travels via the Downtown Brampton and Brampton Gateway terminals along Main and Hurontario Streets through Brampton and Mississauga. It covers the route of current route 2, which has frequent rush-hour service. Route 502 extends and replace MiWay's route 102 InterCity Express. It runs every 10 minutes during rush hours and 20 minutes off-peak hours, including weekends. Route 2's rush hour frequency was reduced to 20 minutes to optimize ridership.
Dundas Street bus rapid transit is a proposed bus rapid transit (BRT) corridor proposed by Metrolinx for the western part of the Greater Toronto and Hamilton Area in Southern Ontario, Canada. It is part of the regional transportation plan The Big Move. Metrolinx currently refers to the project as Dundas bus rapid transit without the word "Street". The City of Mississauga used the brand Dundas Connects during the development phase.
Burnhamthorpe Road is a major arterial road in the cities of Toronto and Mississauga, Ontario; beginning at Dundas Street, near Islington Avenue, running west and becoming a rural road in the Town of Oakville, where it terminates at Tremaine Road, where it changes name.
The Big Move is a regional transportation plan (RTP) published in 2008 and consisting of 62 rapid transit projects to be implemented across the Greater Toronto and Hamilton Area (GTHA). These rapid transit projects are intended to form a seamlessly integrated regional rapid transit network, which is the first priority action in the regional transportation plan. These projects form two long-term templates with 15 and 25 year horizons. These templates outline broad projects; specific details about technology, alignment, stations and service levels for each project are subsequently determined though a cost–benefit analysis or an environmental assessment process.
Urban rail transit in Canada encompasses a broad range of rail mass transit systems, including commuter rail, rapid transit, light rail, and streetcar systems.
The Pearson Regional Transit Centre also known as Union Station West is a proposed second intermodal transportation hub to serve the Greater Toronto Area. The transit hub will be located at the site of Viscount station currently serving the Link Train across from Toronto Pearson International Airport in Mississauga, Ontario. The transit hub will be accommodated with a new passenger and processing facility known as Terminal New. It will handle functions such as check-in, security screenings and baggage claim. The transit hub will also be at the centre of a new mixed-used area including office, retail and commercial space. The plan is to bring Line 5 Eglinton, Line 6 Finch West, the Mississauga Transitway, the Kitchener line and the Union Pearson Express together into the transit hub and it will relieve Union Station. The transit centre is planned to open in the early 2030s.
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