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Square One Bus Terminal
Square One Bus Terminal is a GO Transit intercity bus terminal located in central Mississauga, Ontario, Canada. It is situated directly across Rathburn Road West from the City Centre Transit Terminal (the main hub for local MiWay bus service and a stop on the Mississauga Transitway) and Square One Shopping Centre, after which the terminal is named. Routes stopping at the terminal include: off-peak bus service along the Milton GO Train corridor from downtown Toronto; Mississauga to Finch Bus Terminal; Mississauga to Guelph; Hamilton to Richmond Hill; Highway 407 West routes; and routes connecting Waterloo Region to Greater Toronto. Services will also connect to the planned Hurontario LRT on Hurontario Street. Facilities A permanent terminal building was opened in March 2016. The terminal includes public washrooms, an indoor waiting area, staffed ticket counters and 24-hour automated ticket vending machines. The terminal includes 193 parking spaces along Centre View D ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mississauga
Mississauga is a Canadian city in the province of Ontario. Situated on the north-western shore of Lake Ontario in the Regional Municipality of Peel, it borders Toronto (Etobicoke) to the east, Brampton to the north, Milton to the northwest, and Oakville to the southwest. With a population of 717,961 as of 2021, Mississauga is the seventh-most populous municipality in Canada, third-most in Ontario, and second-most in the Greater Toronto Area (GTA) after Toronto itself. However, for the first time in its history, the city's population declined according to the 2021 census, from a 2016 population of 721,599 to 717,961, a 0.5 per cent decrease. The growth of Mississauga was initially attributed to its proximity to Toronto. However, during the latter half of the 20th century, the city attracted a diverse and multicultural population. Over time, it built up a thriving, transit-oriented central business district of its own, which is now known as Mississauga City Centre. Mal ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Dundas Street
Dundas Street () is a major historic arterial road in Ontario, Canada. The road connects the city of Toronto with its western Greater Toronto Area, suburbs and several cities in southwestern Ontario. Three provincial highways—Ontario Highway 2, 2, Ontario Highway 5, 5, and Ontario Highway 99, 99—followed long sections of its course, although these highway segments have since been List of former provincial highways in Ontario, downloaded to the municipalities they passed through. Originally intended as a military route to connect the shipping port of York, Upper Canada, York (now Toronto) to the envisioned future capital of London, Ontario, the street today connects Toronto landmarks such as Yonge–Dundas Square and the city's Chinatown, Toronto#Downtown Chinatown, principal Chinatown to rural villages and the regional centres of Hamilton, Ontario, Hamilton and London. A historic alternate name for the street was Governor's Road, as its construction was supervised by John Gra ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Transport In Mississauga
Transport (in British English) or transportation (in American English) is the intentional movement of humans, animals, and goods from one location to another. Modes of transport include air, land (rail and road), water, cable, pipelines, and space. The field can be divided into infrastructure, vehicles, and operations. Transport enables human trade, which is essential for the development of civilizations. Transport infrastructure consists of both fixed installations, including roads, railways, airways, waterways, canals, and pipelines, and terminals such as airports, railway stations, bus stations, warehouses, trucking terminals, refueling depots (including fuel docks and fuel stations), and seaports. Terminals may be used both for the interchange of passengers and cargo and for maintenance. Means of transport are any of the different kinds of transport facilities used to carry people or cargo. They may include vehicles, riding animals, and pack animals. Vehicles may includ ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Toronto Union Station
Union Station is a major railway station and intermodal transportation hub in Toronto, Ontario, Canada. The station is located in downtown Toronto, on Front Street West, on the south side of the block bounded by Bay Street and York Street. The municipal government of Toronto owns the station building while the provincial transit agency Metrolinx owns the train shed and trackage. It is operated by the Toronto Terminals Railway, a joint venture of the Canadian National Railway and Canadian Pacific Railway, which directs and controls train movement along the Union Station Rail Corridor, the largest and busiest rail corridor in Canada. Constructed in 1927, Union Station has been a National Historic Site of Canada since 1975, and a Heritage Railway Station since 1989. Its central position in Canada's busiest inter-city rail service area, " The Corridor", as well as being the central hub of GO Transit's commuter rail service, makes Union Station Canada's busiest transportation fa ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Kipling Bus Terminal
Kipling Bus Terminal is a regional bus terminal in Toronto, Ontario, Canada. The terminal serves MiWay and GO Transit buses. It is owned by Metrolinx and is a part of the Kipling Transit Hub, a Metrolinx mobility hub, together with Kipling station and Kipling GO Station. The terminal first opened on January 4, 2021, replacing the former MiWay bus connection to the Line 2 Bloor–Danforth subway at Islington station. History Before the construction of the Kipling Bus Terminal, MiWay buses connected with the Line 2 Bloor–Danforth subway connection at Islington station. After opening, all MiWay bus routes where adjusted to service the terminal, with the exception of route 26 Burnhamthorpe. In December 2007, a draft memorandum of understanding was created between the City of Toronto, the Toronto Transit Commission, GO Transit, and Mississauga Transit for the construction of a new regional terminal at Kipling station. The memorandum was never signed, but the concept of a re ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
North York
North York is a former township and city and is now one of the six administrative districts of Toronto, Ontario, Canada. It is located in the northern area of Toronto, centred around Yonge Street, north of Ontario Highway 401. It is bounded by York Region to the north at Steeles Avenue, (where it borders Vaughan) on the west by the Humber River (Ontario), Humber River, on the east by Victoria Park Avenue. Its southern boundary is erratic and corresponds to the northern boundaries of the former municipalities of Toronto: York, Toronto, York, Old Toronto and East York. As of the 2016 Census, the district has a population of 644,685. North York was created as a township in 1922 out of the northern part of the former Township (Canada), township of York, a municipality that was located along the western border of the-then Old Toronto, City of Toronto. Following its inclusion in Metropolitan Toronto in 1953, it was one of the fastest-growing parts of Greater Toronto due to its proxim ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Richmond Hill Centre Terminal
Richmond Hill Centre Terminal is a York Region Transit, Viva (bus rapid transit), Viva, and GO Transit bus terminal in Richmond Hill, Ontario. Despite its name, the terminal is not located in downtown Richmond Hill, but is situated 4 km (2.5 miles) to the south at the city's southern limits, bordering Vaughan and Markham, Ontario, Markham, near the connecting road that links the grade-separated Yonge Street and Ontario Highway 7, Highway 7 intersection. It opened on September 4, 2005. It is immediately west of the Langstaff GO Station, Langstaff GO train station, but is separated by the tracks. A pedestrian bridge over the tracks was opened in March 2008 to connect the bus terminal and the train station. Public washrooms were added to the terminal in December 2012. Bus service Platform assignments All routes are YRT unless indicated otherwise. *Platform 1: Viva Purple *Platform 2: Viva Orange *Platform 3: Viva Blue southbound *Platform 4: Viva Blue northbound *Platform 5: 1 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Pearson Airport
Toronto Pearson International Airport is an international airport located in Mississauga, Ontario, Canada. It is the main airport serving Toronto, its Greater Toronto Area, metropolitan area, and the surrounding region known as the Golden Horseshoe. Pearson is the largest and List of the busiest airports in Canada, busiest airport in Canada, handling 46.8 million passengers in 2024. It is named in honour of Lester B. Pearson (1897–1972), the 14th Prime Minister of Canada and 1957 Nobel Peace Prize laureate for his humanitarian work in peacekeeping. Pearson International Airport is situated northwest of Downtown Toronto in the adjacent city of Mississauga, Ontario, Mississauga, with a small portion of the airfield extending into Toronto's western district of Etobicoke. It has five runways and two passenger Airport terminal, terminals along with numerous Air cargo, cargo, maintenance, and Aerospace manufacturer, aerospace production facilities on a site that covers . Toront ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Oshawa GO Station
Durham College Oshawa GO station is a station for commuter rail, passenger rail and regional bus services in Oshawa, Ontario, Canada. It is the terminal station for the Lakeshore East line of GO Transit and serves Via Rail's '' Corridor'' service, which travels from Toronto to both Ottawa and Montreal. The bus terminal is served by bus routes of GO Transit and Durham Region Transit. History The Grand Trunk Railway between Montreal and Toronto was completed in 1856 and the first Oshawa station was where Albert Street met the GTR tracks. In 1923, the Grand Trunk was absorbed by the Canadian National Railway (CN) who, in the 1960s, built a single-floor station with a flat roof west of the original station where the CN yard is now on the north side of the tracks. The building was expanded and upgraded by Via Rail in the early 1990s and GO Transit's Lakeshore East line was extended to there in 1995. On November 24, 2017, the modernization of the Oshawa GO Station was completed and op ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Highway 407 Station
Highway 407 is a Toronto Transit Commission (TTC) subway station on Line 1 Yonge–University of the Toronto subway. It is located at the southwest quadrant of the Jane Street and Highway 407 interchange, in Vaughan, Ontario, Canada. It is one of two Toronto subway stations that are outside the City of Toronto, the other being Vaughan Metropolitan Centre station. Description The design team for the station was AECOM as the prime consultant, Aedas as design architect, and Parsons Brinckerhoff as design engineers. The station is an intermodal transit facility providing connections to York Region Transit (YRT), GO Transit buses, and Ontario Northland intercity coaches. It will also connect to a future Highway 407 Transitway. The station has a 550-space commuter parking lot and a large 18-bay regional bus terminal. This station has been engineered and positioned for the construction of underground bus platforms for the proposed Highway 407 Transitway. The station has an open desi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Pickering GO Station
Pickering GO Station is a train and bus station in the GO Transit network located in Pickering, Ontario, Pickering, Ontario, Canada. It is a stop on the Lakeshore East line and was the eastern terminus from 1967 until 1990, when service was extended to Whitby and subsequently to Oshawa. History The previous Pickering station, which had been constructed by Grand Trunk Railway in the early 1900s, had been about 2 kilometres east of the current location at Liverpool Road. Plans for the original GO Transit Lakeshore line called for commuter train service not to go beyond Liverpool Road where the CN York Subdivision tracks joined the CN Kingston Subdivision, because this would interfere with freight trains. No practical site could be found, but there was a large field south of the tracks on the east side of Liverpool Road with more than enough space to accommodate a station building, bus terminal and car parking, with convenient access from Bayly Street. Installation of a new crossov ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Waterloo, Ontario
Waterloo is a city in the Canadian province of Ontario. It is one of three cities in the Regional Municipality of Waterloo (formerly Waterloo County, Ontario, Waterloo County). Waterloo is situated about west-southwest of Toronto, but it is not considered to be part of the Greater Toronto Area (GTA). Due to the close proximity of the city of Kitchener, Ontario, Kitchener to Waterloo, the two together are often referred to as "Kitchener–Waterloo", "K-W", or "The Twin Cities". While several unsuccessful attempts to combine the municipalities of Kitchener and Waterloo have been made, following the 1973 establishment of the Region of Waterloo, less motivation to do so existed, and as a result, Waterloo remains an independent city. At the time of the Canada 2021 Census, 2021 census, the population of Waterloo was 121,436. History Indigenous peoples and settlement Indigenous peoples in Canada, Indigenous peoples such as the Haudenosaunee, Iroquois, Anishinaabe and Neutral Natio ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
