安省GTA交通管理机构都市连通(Metrolinx)已通过央街舒缓线的研究报告，计划修建北约克Finch地铁站向北延伸至约克区烈治文山7号公路夹央街处的地铁延伸线，该线全长6.8公里。据悉该线将包括6个车站，以约克区南端的交通枢纽Langstaff Urban Growth Centre为终点站。届时Richmond Hill/Langstaff地区将发展成为一个区域交通中心，乘客可在这里乘坐GO火车、GO巴士、TTC地铁以及正在建设中的Highway 7 Rapidway。都市连通(Metrolinx)将展开初步设计工作，而相关报告将于明年春季交由都市连通董事局讨论。
Yonge Street North Subway Project Back on Track!
At its Board meeting on June 25, 2015, Metrolinx has adopted recommendations that the Yonge Street North Subway project, which extends the existing line from Finch to Richmond Hill, should move to the next step of development. This will include preliminary design concepts and the start of the engineering process as well as a report back to the Metrolinx Board in Spring 2016.
Three local Councillors, Councillors Alan Shefman, City of Vaughan, Godwin Chan, Town of Richmond Hill, and Valerie Burke, City of Markham, have worked as a team as outspoken advocates for the Yonge Street North Subway project, and have been advocating for this incremental funding strategy for almost three years now.
“This is an important moment for both this project and transit development in the GTA. For years, we have been meeting with virtually everyone involved in the planning and development of transit in the region, attempting to convince them to move to the next step in this critical project. We are very hopeful that a decision to fund this recommendation will be announced shortly to allow the work to begin,” stated Councillor Alan Shefman.
Councillor Godwin Chan said, “The Yonge Street North Subway project has always been a Metrolinx priority, but following the approval of its Environmental Assessment in 2009, funding to continue its development came to a standstill. We applaud the decision of Metrolinx to take the much-needed public transit project to the next step.”
“While we would have preferred to see a recommendation to fully construct this transit line, Metrolinx’s decision to support the recommendation for the project to go to the next step will move the Yonge Street North Subway closer to construction,” remarked Councillor Valerie Burke.
Background
Metrolinx, at its Board meeting, approved the report Yonge Relief Network Study. In the study, it was noted that the addition of the Yonge North Extension can move forward – that it will not overwhelm the Yonge line to the south and that the next stage of development, preliminary design and engineering should commence at this time.
The planned Yonge subway extension will extend 6.8 kilometres north from Finch Station to the Richmond Hill/Langstaff Urban Growth Centre at Highway 7. It will include up to six stations. This urban centre will be a major transit hub where transit riders will be able to make seamless and convenient connections to GO Trains, GO Buses, TTC Subway and the under construction Highway 7 Rapidway. To put it into perspective – a Union Station of the north!
In April 2009, the Ontario Ministry of the Environment unconditionally approved the Environmental Project Report for the Yonge subway extension. In 2012, the Conceptual Design Study that looked at specific engineering elements was completed and approved by the Toronto Transit Commission and The Regional Municipality of York.
This project will have a significant role in the GTHA’s overall transportation network – roads and transit. No other project can do more to advance the need for improving transportation in the GTHA. This project can combine with market forces to unleash significant economic, environment and development benefits.
