Mississauga Bus Rapid Transit (BRT) Project
2012 Rank: 83
2011 Rank: 77
Sector: BRT
Location: Mississauga, Ontario
Owner: City of Mississauga; Metrolinx/GO Transit
Key Players:
Engineer: H.H. Angus (station mechanical/electrical consultant); Giffels, a part of the Ingenium Group, Golder Associates (subconsultant to Giffels—IBI Group, geotechnical); IBI Group (prime consultant, design); McCormick Rankin Corporation, a member of the MMM Group (prime consultant, design, contract administration); MMM Group (station structural consultant); Thurber Engineering (geotechnical);
Architect: IBI Group (station architecture)
Funding: Public
Federal Canadian Strategic Infrastructure Fund: $83 million ($59 million to City of Mississauga and $24 million to GO Transit)
Provincial $113 million ($65 million to the City of Mississauga and $48 million in GO Transit investments)
Municipal City of Mississauga: $124 million
Description:
This dedicated east-west transit corridor (busway) across Mississauga will run along Highway 403 (combining the use of the existing bus bypass shoulders), Eastgate Parkway and Eglinton Avenue corridors connecting Winston Churchill Boulevard in the west to Renforth Drive in the east. The busway will connect with local bus service (Mississauga Transit), interregional bus service (GO), the TTC Bloor Subway (Kipling Station) and the planned Eglinton Crosstown LRT (project number one), with additional service to Toronto Pearson Airport.






