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Originally Posted by Cirrus
2. What's the best way to get to Markham on transit? I'm interested in the Viva "rapidway" on Highway 7. But I'll only go see it if it's easy to get to and doesn't take too long. GO to Unionville? Viva Blue line from Finch to Richmond? Something else?
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The VIVA purple line, along Highway 7, is the impressive one with the separated lanes and sophisticated transit stations. The north-south Viva Blue line is a pretty basic, but frequent, limited stop bus and doesn't contain anything really interesting to transit geeks.
If you're going to do VIVA purple, I highly suggest you take the eastern leg from Richmond Hill to Enterprise, rather than the western leg from Richmond Hill to York University.
The eastern leg not only contains model TOD projects like "Downtown" Markham, at Enterprise station (not really a downtown at all), but also goes past Chinese ethnoburbs that contain some of the best Chinese food on the continent (particularly around the Leslie stop).
The Western leg mostly goes through very boring subdivisions and industrial areas.
In any case, if you're staying downtown, York Region is way out there, so I'd budget at least half a day to do this.