Brampton Gateway Terminal is a

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 ...

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serving the south-central and western areas of

Brampton Brampton ( or ) is a city in the Canadian province of Ontario. Brampton is a city in the Greater Toronto Area (GTA) and is a lower-tier municipality within Peel Region. The city has a population of 656,480 as of the 2021 Census, making it t ...

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. It is located on the north-west corner of

Steeles Avenue Steeles Avenue is an east–west street that forms the northern city limit of Toronto and the southern limit of York Region in Ontario, Canada. It stretches across the western and central Greater Toronto Area from Appleby Line in Milton in th ...

and Main Street adjoining the Shoppers World Brampton shopping centre. The terminal opened on November 26, 2012 to replace the

Shoppers World Terminal Shoppers World Terminal was a Brampton Transit bus station that served the south-central and western areas of Brampton, Ontario, including the neighbourhood of Peel Village. It was located on Steeles Avenue, west of Hurontario Street, in the park ...

on the south-west side of the shopping centre.

History

In 2009, the manager of Land Use Policy recommended that, with the addition of Acceleride (later

Züm Züm (pronounced Zoom, IPA: /zuːm/) is a bus rapid transit system for the suburban city of Brampton, Ontario, Canada, northwest of Toronto owned and operated by Brampton Transit. There are connections to the City of Mississauga, York Region, an ...

) and a proposed Hurontario–Main LRT, there was a "demonstrated need" to move the terminal to the corner of Hurontario and Steeles. Such a move would allow less diversion time from the route to the station, and for a larger station.David Waters, editor,
Recommendation Report: Proposed Interim Control By-Law, Hurontario Corridor/Main Street Study Wards 1, 3, 4, 5
, ''City of Brampton'', March 16, 2009. As a stop on the potential LRT, the terminal is considered part of the Hurontario Higher Order Transit corridor. Expropriations were made to allow for the terminal to be moved; this stands in contrast to the previous location which was leased from Shoppers World Brampton. As of spring 2010, the terminal redesign and relocation was scheduled to coincide with the Zum Main Street launch in fall 2011; it was listed as a 2011 service initiative in the agency's 2011 Current and Capital Budget. A contract for the construction of the new terminal, its amenities, plus road and intersection improvements was awarded to Graham Construction and Engineering. The lowest tender, the contract was worth $10,190,340. Earlier estimates presumed an $8.3 million cost. A City report placed the "higher actual costs" on a limited construction time-line and tendering the contract during the summer. The bus station will be the northern terminus of the

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 ...

which extends south to

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in Mississauga. The light rail line is scheduled for completion in 2024.

Routes

This terminal has 15 bus bays with several of them being on the streets.

References

{{MiWay terminals Brampton Transit Bus stations in Ontario Transport infrastructure completed in 2012 2012 establishments in Ontario