Metrolinx - MoveOntario 2020
WHOA! Lots and lots of good news for Hamilton yesterday!! Here's a list of APPROVED agendas for the GTTA....
MoveOntario 2020 Foundation Investments Total: $791.3 million Hamilton A-Line, James-Upper James corridor and Airport connector - $6.9 million Hamilton B-Line, King-Main corridor - $17.4 million Hamilton James Street North GO/VIA Station - Gateway to Niagara - $3.0 million Halton Region Bus Rapid Transit (BRT) - $57.6 million Bolton GO Transit service improvements - $600,000 Dundas and Hurontario higher-order transit corridor development - $26.5million Mississauga Transitway Hub: Airport-Renforth Gateway - $39.0 million York-VIVA Highway 7, Pine Valley Drive to Kennedy Road - $62.0 million York-VIVA Yonge Street, Richmond Hill Centre to 19th Avenue - $19.0 million York-VIVA Yonge Street, 19th Avenue to Newmarket - $29.0 million Toronto-York Yonge subway extension to Richmond Hill (Phase 1) - $423.7 million Toronto-TTC Transit City Light Rail Transit (LRT) head start - $7.1 million Toronto Yonge Finch-Steeles BRT - $17.3 million Durham-Highway 2 BRT Spine - $82.3 million |
Yes you heard right, Hamilton is getting another GO Station and FINALLY a VIA Station at James St North.
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GTTA Quick-Wins: (meaning the money will flow right away)
Hamilton Upper James Corridor - $5.5 million Six new articulated diesel-electric hybrid buses will provide increased service levels on the Downtown-GO Terminal-Mohawk College-Hamilton International Airport Route by 2009, as a precursor to future rapid transit improvements on Upper James Street |
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Alright now start building!
With a new GO/VIA station, the area around James North is set up to be the hottest property in town. Buy those old rowhouses now or you'll never be able to afford them. |
The James GO Station will be Hamilton's 24 hrs GO Station and VIA Station as well. These GTTA list is to be all done by 2009 so we'll probably see it built mid or late next year.
The Hunter GO Station will continue to have the GO buses and probably will continue to have rush hour GO Train service. The GO Train will have two different routes into Hamilton. Hamilton will likely be a big GO Train hub in the future especially with being the Gateway to the Niagara as the GTTA is calling it. |
Wow awesome news!!
If GO leaves TH&B on Hunter, then it would make the PERFECT HSR downtown Terminal: Indoor (climatized) waiting area, BATHROOMS FOR DRIVERS and passengers, food & drink. Wow... I'm so impressed! |
^ Yea that would be a good idea!
I would close Hughson St to auto traffic and have covered and bigger sidewalks and install bus trolleys from Hunter GO or HSR Station to Liuna Station where the new GO/VIA Station will be located at. |
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It's a lot more attractive that waiting for a bus outside! And with the way Light Rail trains are now-a-days, there shouldn't be a problem with having it go down James to Hunter then back up John to Main. Is this too expensive or worth the investment?? |
Think all of the HSR buses could be re-routed to the Hunter station? Might have to leave a few buses at the MacNab terminal.
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Well even if GO buses stay, there's still what? Half a dozen bays that don't get used in the back? Besides the back, there's tons of room infront of TH&B that could accomodate. The street already has an inset for parking. Those could be used as bays to park HSR buses instead.
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I'm pretty sure all of the current GO buses will be staying at the Hunter GO Station. There's also other bus services that uses the station like Greyhound. Obviously they'll be a bus or two going to the new waterfront GO Station.
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Very good to read, but sadly it seems light rail is not gonna be happening. I totally didn't expect the VIA/GO announcement, this is awesome. Also if I interpret the plans correctly, it seems like they somehow intend to use the existing station there? They only outline building platforms there, not a station. It also says they'll be using the "site of the former CN station". I guess they'd have to buy it back from LIUNA...
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hmmm, sounds good.
Although it sounds like GO hasn't approved this idea yet. I don't think I'd want all HSR buses re-routed to Hunter. Most pedestrians in the Gore area are there because of transit. I'd like to see Hughson used to connect Gore to Hunter and leave the King/Main buses on King and Main at Gore. Even when (if) it becomes a pedestrian-only zone I'd like the east/west routes to remain on the north side of King. Losing HSR at the Gore would result in a ghost-town type feeling compared with the bustle we're all used to now. I can't see GO sending trains to two different stations so close together. I worry about the current GO station if all trains were re-routed to James North. Obviously VIA would use James North. It's nice having GO Trains right in the heart of downtown. So, are they ordering more artics for the B-Line?? Or just the A-Line? |
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because of the bus orders? I wouldn't think that. We could still do LRT downtown and use all the hybrid artics for the A-Line or busy routes like Barton. |
Well I hope you're right honestly, I don't like the idea of bus rapid transit either... it just seemed that way to me.
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Although it sounds like GO hasn't approved this idea yet. [/QUOTE] GTTA now operates GO transit so yea it's been approved haha |
don't get me wrong..the odds of LRT is slim.
This is Hamilton, after all. We spend money like that on roads and highways not crummy public transit. |
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