502 Züm Main is a bus rapid transit route in

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which leads south into

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. The second corridor, which began service on September 6, 2011, runs from Sandalwood Parkway in the city's north end to

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's City Centre Transit Terminal near the

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in the south. It travels via the Downtown Brampton and Brampton Gateway terminals along Main and Hurontario Streets through Brampton and Mississauga. It covers the route of current route 2, which has frequent rush-hour service. Route 502 extends and replace MiWay's route 102 InterCity Express. It runs every 10 minutes during rush hours and 20 minutes off-peak hours, including weekends. Route 2's rush hour frequency was reduced to 20 minutes to optimize ridership. A large portion of this route overlaps Mississauga's Hurontario Street corridor. Miway provides frequent local and express services on this corridor south of

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, with the section between Eglinton and Britannia being served with 3-minute frequencies. Hurontario/Main Street from

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to Queen Street will eventually be converted to a LRT system. The leftover of the eventual Route 502 (north of

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) will remain and possibly extended to Highway 410 in the north. As a preparation, both MiWay Route 103 and Züm Main overlap express service between

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and Eglinton Avenue. The southern portion of this route below Steeles Avenue will eventually be replaced by the planned

Hurontario LRT The Hurontario LRT (formerly the Hurontario–Main LRT) is a light rail line under construction in the cities of Mississauga and Brampton, Ontario, Canada. The line will run along Hurontario Street from Mississauga's Port Credit neighbourhood ...

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