Viva Silver

Viva Silver is a bus rapid transit route planned by York Region Transit to operate in Regional Municipality of York, Ontario, Canada. It is expected to begin service in 2022[1] as part of the Viva Rapid Transit service, after the opening of the Vaughan Metropolitan Centre subway station on the Spadina extension of the Line 1 Yonge–University subway in Toronto.

Viva Silver
Overview
SystemYRT/Viva
OperatorTok Transit
StatusPlanned
Began serviceExpected 2022
Route
Route typeBus rapid transit
LocaleYork Region
Communities servedRichmond Hill; Vaughan
StartVaughan Metropolitan Centre
EndRichmond Hill GO
Stops16
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The planned route is from the Vaughan Metropolitan Centre Terminal north along Jane Street to Major Mackenzie Drive, then east to Richmond Hill GO Station. It will include a transit signal priority system.[2]

The route is part of York Region Transit's "frequent transit network" enhancements, in which Jane Street, Leslie Street, and Major Mackenzie Drive are considered top priority transit corridors for 2016.[3] Frequency of York Region Transit rush hour bus service operating on those corridors will be progressively increased from 2016 to 2018 before implementation of the Viva service in order to increase ridership.[3] The expected route service frequency is 10 minutes.[4]

Implementation of this route will require capital costs of about C$23 million in 2017, and will cost about C$6 million annually to operate.[5] Service will require a fleet of 10 Viva buses.[5]

Stations

The principal stops are Vaughan Metropolitan Centre Terminal, Vaughan Mills, Canada's Wonderland, Richmond Hill GO Station, and the Yonge Street corridor.[6] It would result in the elimination of route 760 bus service.[7]

A transit terminal will be built on the south side of Major Mackenzie Drive, to serve Canada's Wonderland and the future Cortellucci Vaughan Hospital, the latter of which will connect to the terminal via a pedestrian and cycling underpass.[8]

The Vaughan Metropolitan subway station concourse is accessible from the Vaughan Metropolitan Centre Terminal, which is located on the central median of Highway 7.[9]

The project station designs are not finalized, such it is unclear if they will be shelters like earlier iterations or large rapidways stations in the middle of the roadway.

Viva Silver
Station Municipality Notes
Vaughan Metropolitan Centre Terminal Vaughan Connects to Vaughan Metropolitan Centre station,
Pennsylvania
Langstaff
Vaughan Mills Connects with the Vaughan Mills Terminal
Springside
Norwood
Jane/Major Mackenzie Terminal To be built between Canada's Wonderland and future Cortellucci Vaughan Hospital
McNaughton
Keele
Maple GO Station Connects to Barrie line
Peter Rupert
Dufferin
Bathurst Vaughan/Richmond Hill
Harding Richmond Hill Connects to
Yonge Connects to
Richmond Hill GO Station Connects to Richmond Hill GO line,

Notes
  1. "2018 Transit Initiatives". York Region Transit. Retrieved November 1, 2017.
  2. "Moving to 2020" (PDF). York Region Transit. p. 3. Retrieved 2017-08-17.
  3. "Moving to 2020" (PDF). York Region Transit. p. 8. Retrieved 2017-08-17.
  4. York Region Transit, p. 1.
  5. "Moving to 2020" (PDF). York Region Transit. p. 4. Retrieved 2017-08-17.
  6. York Region Transit, p. 19.
  7. York Region Transit, p. 20.
  8. City of Vaughan 2015, p. 2—4.
  9. York Region Transit: Spadina Subway Transit Strategy.

References
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