Yesterday, Friday March 4, Prime Minister Justin Trudeau and Stan Cho, Ontario’s Associate Minister of Transportation, Mississauga Mayor Bonnie Crombie and members of Mississauga City Council announced a joint investment of more than $675 million to support three public transit infrastructure projects in Mississauga.
The funding they announced includes more than $271 million from the Government of Canada through the Investing in Canada Infrastructure Program, more than $225 million from the Government of Ontario and more than $180 million from the City of Mississauga. The City will use the funds for:
- designing and building the Dundas Bus Rapid Transit corridor on Dundas Streets West and East between Confederation Parkway and Etobicoke Creek, “to increase access to Mississauga’s public and active transportation infrastructure”;
- upgrading MiWay bus corridors, including building queue-jump lanes, “to reduce traffic, passenger wait times and delays”; and
- buying 358 second-generation hybrid buses to replace diesel vehicles, reduce greenhouse gas emissions and “improve the quality and reliability of transit in Mississauga.”
(Queue-jump lanes allow buses to proceed through a signalized intersection before any other traffic in the same direction can proceed.)
^ Some of the funding will support the first phase of the Dundas Bus Rapid Transit project in east Mississauga. Image, Metrolinx
According to a news release from the Office of Prime Minister Trudeau, “The addition of the rapid transit bus corridor along Dundas Street will save commuters an estimated six to 17 minutes per trip.” Mayor Crombie added, “Funding to build rapid bus transit along Dundas Street… will make it easier for residents to travel to and from Mississauga and is critical for regional economic growth and recovery. The Dundas BRT will further strengthen our east to west connections, reducing travel times and connecting people to more job opportunities and businesses to more customers.”
Project Information
:
Project Title |
Description |
Federal Funding |
Provincial Funding |
Municipal Funding |
|---|---|---|---|---|
Bus replacement program |
Purchase of 314 forty-foot low floor transit buses and approximately 44 sixty-foot low floor transit buses to replace older vehicles in the MiWay fleet. |
$143,880,000 |
$119,888,010 |
$95,931,990 |
Construction of a new bus rapid transit (BRT) corridor along Dundas Street in Mississauga |
Design and construction of a new bus rapid transit corridor along Dundas Street, from Confederation Parkway to the Etobicoke Creek. The corridor will also include separated bicycle lanes. |
$122,280,000 |
$101,889,810 |
$81,530,190 |
Transit priority measures for express bus corridors |
Construction of queue jump lanes at eight intersections on Derry Road, eight intersections on Eglinton Avenue and nine intersections on Dixie Road. |
$5,040,000 |
$4,199,580 |
$3,360,420 |
Sources:
- Prime Minister Justin Trudeau news release, “Better public transit for Mississauga”, here;
- Government of Canada backgrounder, “Canada, Ontario and Mississauga announce funding to modernize public transit in Mississauga”, here.
- City of Mississauga news release, “Mississauga Receives Transit Infrastructure Funding From Federal and Provincial Governments”, here.
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