Canada: Pearson Airport welcomes suggestion of Transit Hub
The proposal to build the transit hub dubbed as Union Station West, as it will resemble Toronto's Union Station, was agreed to by Greater Toronto Airports Authority (GTTA) because, said Del Duca.
It could serve as a downtown hub for the Toronto Transit Commission (TTC) subway, GO Transit and Via Rail and reduce commuting times to the airport, CBCNews reports quoted Duca as saying.
Tory said the city of Toronto (Governing municipal body of Toronto) supported the plans presented on Tuesday as these considered actual traffic patterns in the Toronto region.
For example, not all traffic came from west to east or headed downtown, said Tory and added for this project to be a success, both the public and private sectors and the airport authority needed to be fully involved and cooperative.
Tory said the city of Toronto did not have sufficient transit and the proposed transit hub was exciting and much in demand.
GTTA had said, last year, that the transit hub will be funded for its development and construction. Proposed costs of the project were not provided on Tuesday.
Mayors of Mississauga, Brampton and Kitchener and the provincial Transportation minister fully supported and welcomed the proposal of the transit hub.
Both public and private sectors considered the hub as a good economic development policy which would make the area more business friendly.
It reportedly showed full potential for creating more jobs for its residents considering the Pearson area to be second largest employment zone in Canada after Toronto.
According to CBCNews reports, an estimated 300,000 people worked in the Pearson employment zone and according to GTAA 93 percent of those workers have been driving to their jobs.
The GTAA told the ministers and the mayors that the Northern Arc, an area that extended across the top of the GTA to North Toronto and York Region, would be benefited by the transportation hub and will allow commuters to move from suburb to suburb without going through downtown Toronto.
A number of transit lines, including the Eglinton Crosstown LRT, Mississauga's bus rapid transit plan and a high-speed rail line to the Kitchener-Waterloo area would be connected by the transit hub, CBCNews reports said.
(Reporting by Asha Bajaj)
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