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501 Züm Queen
501 Züm Queen is a bus rapid transit route in Brampton, Ontario that is part of the Züm network. The route first began service on September 20, 2010, and runs between the Downtown Brampton Terminal in the west to the Toronto Transit Commission's Vaughan Metropolitan Centre station in Vaughan in the east. It runs along Queen Street in Brampton and continues along Highway 7 in Vaughan. 501 Züm Queen shares routing with York Region Transit's Viva Orange bus rapid transit route between Martin Grove Road and Vaughan Metropolitan Centre, and has been fare integrated with it since its creation. Both Brampton Transit and York Region Transit proofs of payment ( Presto-marked transfers for riders paying cash) are accepted for the entire length of both bus routes. Route history Originally, the route continued to York University (which also had a subway connection when the line's extension to Vaughan opened on December 17, 2017). There were also two branch routes: 501A and 5 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Brampton Transit
Brampton Transit (BT) is a public transport bus operator for the City of Brampton in the Regional Municipality of Peel, and within the Greater Toronto Area (GTA) in Ontario, Canada. Brampton Transit began operations in 1974. In , the system had a ridership of , or about per weekday as of . Züm, a series of bus rapid transit routes running along various major roads within Brampton, was introduced in 2010. All Züm routes (with the exception of one) continue into neighbouring municipalities, namely Mississauga, Vaughan, and Toronto ( Humber College Bus Terminal). Connections Brampton Transit is connected with Mississauga's MiWay to the south, Milton Transit to the west, Toronto Transit Commission (TTC) to the southeast and York Region Transit (YRT) to the east. The Züm network directly connects to these neighbouring transit agencies, in some cases overlapping with their routes for considerable distances. This includes the 501 Züm Queen in Vaughan running alongside Vi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ontario Highway 7
King's Highway 7, commonly referred to as Highway 7 (abbreviated as Hwy 7) and historically as the Northern Highway, is a Ontario Provincial Highway Network, provincially maintained highway in the Provinces and territories of Canada, Canadian province of Ontario. At its peak, Highway 7 measured in length, stretching from Ontario Highway 40, Highway 40 east of Sarnia in Southwestern Ontario, passing through the Greater Toronto Area (GTA) (although bypassing Toronto proper) and on to Ontario Highway 17, Highway 17 west of Ottawa in Eastern Ontario. However, due in part to the construction of Highways 402 and 407, the province transferred the sections of Highway 7 west of London, Ontario, London and through the GTA to county and regional jurisdiction. The highway is now long; the western segment begins at Ontario Highway 4, Highway 4 north of London and extends to Georgetown, Ontario, Georgetown, while the eastern segment begins at Donald Cousens Parkw ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
561 Züm Queen West
561 Züm Queen West is an express bus route in Brampton, Ontario that was introduced on September 6, 2016 as part of Züm phase 2. It runs from Mount Pleasant GO Station where it connects with 505 Züm Bovaird 505 Züm Bovaird is an express bus route in Brampton, Ontario. This route began service on September 2, 2014. The headways are 15-17 minutes during peak periods, 16 minutes during weekends, and 20 minutes during weekday off peak. This route does ... and continues west along Bovaird Drive, south along Mississauga Road, and east along Queen Street to Downtown Brampton Terminal. The route currently operates only on weekdays during rush hours.The 1 Queen shares the entire length with this route and operates 30 minutes or better all day, every day. The 561 was suspended due to the COVID-19 pandemic in the Regional Municipality of Peel. As of September 6, 2022, Route 561 has been restored to service. Stops Controversy At that time when this route was implemented, s ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Vaughan, Ontario
Vaughan ( ) (2022 population 344,412) is a city in Ontario, Canada. It is located in the Regional Municipality of York, just north of Toronto. Vaughan was the fastest-growing municipality in Canada between 1996 and 2006 with its population increasing by 80.2% during this time period and having nearly doubled in population since 1991. In 2021, the population of Vaughan was 323,103. It is the fifth-largest city in the Greater Toronto Area, and the List of the largest municipalities in Canada by population, 17th-largest city in Canada. Toponymy The township was named after Benjamin Vaughan, a Kingdom of Great Britain, British commissioner who signed a peace treaty with the United States in 1783. History In the late pre-contact period, the Wyandot people, Huron-Wendat Nation, Wendat people populated what is today Vaughan. The Skandatut ancestral Wendat village overlooked the east branch of the Humber River (Ontario), Humber River (Pine Valley Drive) and was once home to approximatel ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
MiWay
MiWay (; stylized MiWay), also known as Mississauga Transit and originally as Mississauga Transit Systems, is the municipal public transport agency serving Mississauga, Ontario, Canada, and is responsible to the city's Transportation and Works Department. MiWay services consist of two types of bus routes: MiLocal, local buses that make frequent stops, and MiExpress, express buses between major destinations. MiWay is the primary operator along the Mississauga Transitway, a dedicated east–west bus-only roadway. MiWay's routes connect with GO Transit along with Brampton Transit to the north, Oakville Transit to the southwest, Milton Transit to the northwest, Toronto Transit Commission to the east and York Region Transit to the northeast. MiWay is a member of the Canadian Urban Transit Association. In 2022, MiWay's annual ridership was 35.7million passengers. History Public transit in Mississauga was first operated by Charterways Limited as Mississauga Transit System ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
COVID-19 Pandemic In Ontario
The COVID-19 pandemic in Ontario was a viral pandemic of coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19), a novel infectious disease caused by severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2). The first confirmed case of COVID-19 in Canada was announced on January 25, 2020, involving a traveller who had recently returned to Toronto from travel in China, including Wuhan. Ontario has had the largest number of confirmed COVID-19 cases among Canada's provinces and territories, but due to having the largest population, only ranks sixth adjusted per capita. Ontario surpassed one million lab-confirmed COVID-19 cases on January 24, 2022; one day before the anniversary of the first confirmed case on January 25, 2020. On March 17, 2020, a state of emergency was declared by Premier Doug Ford. This included the gradual implementation of restrictions on gatherings and commerce. From late spring to early summer, the majority of the deaths were residents of long-term care homes. In late Ap ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ontario Highway 407
King's Highway 407, commonly referred to as Highway 407 and colloquially as the "four-oh-seven", is a 400-series highways, 400-series highway in the Provinces and territories of Canada, Canadian province of Ontario. Comprising a tolled privately leased segment and a publicly owned segment, the route spans the entire Greater Toronto Area (GTA) around the city of Toronto, travelling through the suburbs of Burlington, Ontario, Burlington, Oakville, Ontario, Oakville, Mississauga, Brampton, Vaughan, Markham, Ontario, Markham, Pickering, Ontario, Pickering, Whitby, Ontario, Whitby, and Oshawa, Ontario, Oshawa before ending in Clarington, north of Orono, Ontario, Orono. At 151.4 km long, it is the fourth-longest expressway in Ontario's 400-series network, after Highways Ontario Highway 417, 417, Ontario Highway 400, 400, and Ontario Highway 401, 401. The tolled segment between Burlington and Brougham, Ontario, Brougham in Pickering is leased to and operated by the 407 ETR Con ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ontario Highway 427
King's Highway 427 (pronounced "four twenty-seven"), also known as Highway 427 and colloquially as the 427, is a 400-series highways, 400-series highway in the Provinces and territories of Canada, Canadian province of Ontario that runs from the Queen Elizabeth Way (QEW) and Gardiner Expressway in Toronto to Major Mackenzie Drive (List of numbered roads in York Region, York Regional Road25) in Vaughan. It is Ontario's second busiest freeway by volume and the third busiest in North America, behind Highway 401 and Interstate 405 (California), Interstate 405 in California. Like Highway401, a portion of the route is divided into a Local-express lanes, collector-express system with twelve to fourteen continuous lanes. Notable about Highway427 are its several multi-level interchanges; the junctions with the QEW/Gardiner Expressway and Highway401 are two of the largest interchanges in Ontario and were constructed between 1967 and 1971, while the interchanges with Ontario Highway 409, ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
York University Station
York University is a List of Toronto TTC stations, subway station on Line 1 Yonge–University of the Toronto subway. It is located on the main Keele Campus of York University, near Ian Macdonald and York Boulevards in the former city of North York. It opened in 2017, as part of the extension of the subway to Vaughan Metropolitan Centre station, Vaughan Metropolitan Centre. History The official groundbreaking ceremony for the Toronto–York Spadina subway extension (TYSSE) was held on November 27, 2009; however, tunnelling operations did not commence until June 2011. The first stage of construction for the station began in May 2011. On October 11, 2011, one of the geostructural drilling rigs on site collapsed and killed Kyle Knox, an operator working for a contractor on the project, Anchor Shoring. The incident injured five other workers. The project, including York University station, was initially expected to be completed by the second quarter of 2015 but was delayed to the ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
York University
York University (), also known as YorkU or simply YU), is a public university, public research university in Toronto, Ontario, Canada. It is Canada's third-largest university, and it has approximately 53,500 students, 7,000 faculty and staff, and over 375,000 alumni worldwide. It has 11 faculties, including the Lassonde School of Engineering, Schulich School of Business, Osgoode Hall Law School, Glendon College, and 32 research centres. York University was established in 1959 as a non-denominational institution by the ''York University Act'', which received royal assent in the Legislative Assembly of Ontario on 26 March of that year. Its first class was held in September 1960 in Falconer Hall on the University of Toronto campus with a total of 76 students. In the fall of 1961, York moved to its first campus at Glendon Hall (now part of Glendon College), which was leased from U of T, and began to emphasize liberal arts and part-time adult education. In 1965, the university opene ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Presto Card
The Presto card (stylized as PRESTO) is a contactless smart card automated fare collection system used on participating public transit systems in the province of Ontario, Canada, specifically in Greater Toronto Area, Greater Toronto, Hamilton, Ontario, Hamilton, and Ottawa. Presto card readers were implemented on a trial basis from 25 June 2007 to 30 September 2008. Full implementation began in November 2009 and it was rolled out across rapid transit stations, railway stations, bus stops and terminals, and transit vehicles on eleven different transit systems. A variant of the Presto card is the #Presto ticket, Presto ticket, introduced on 5 April 2019, which is a single-use paper ticket with an embedded chip. The Presto ticket can only be used for the services of the Toronto Transit Commission. In late 2023 and mid-2024, Presto was made available for use in Google Wallet and Apple Wallet, respectively. Presto is a result of The Big Move, the 2008 regional transportation plan f ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
