The Metropolis of Vaughan is in search of enter into the designs of Interchange Approach and Millway Avenue extensions because it updates the VMC Transportation Grasp Plan to assist information and handle transportation within the metropolis’s core.
When full, the plan will define transportation wants, present a method for avenue connectivity and accessibility, and help multi-modal mobility, equivalent to strolling, biking, public transit and ridesharing, by means of to 2051. As a part of the replace, municipal class environmental assessments are additionally advancing for the Interchange Approach and Millway Avenue extensions, concurrently.
Most well-liked highway alignment proposals and designs for the extensions of Millway Avenue and Interchange Approach are up for overview at a public info centre Dec. 5 on the Vaughan Studios & Occasion Area (200 Apple Mill Rd., foremost ground). The format is a drop-in from 5 to 7 p.m. to talk to the mission group, be taught extra concerning the highway extensions and supply feedback.
Materials from the assembly will probably be accessible on-line at vaughan.ca/VMCTMP, from Dec. 4 till Jan. 31, 2024. Questions, feedback and suggestions will be emailed to vm****@ws*.com or by means of a web based suggestions kind.
The imaginative and prescient for the VMC is an entire neighborhood that gives facilities of an city way of life: multi-use workplace towers, residences, entry to speedy transit, open inexperienced area, city squares, pedestrian procuring areas, eating places, strolling and biking paths, and extra.
Designs embody satisfactory parking area, transit connections and pedestrian-friendly choices are required.
The up to date plan will verify transportation wants, insurance policies and a phasing technique to 2051. As well as, it can present an evaluation of current and future transportation situations within the VMC, define the transportation wants of residents travelling by means of the core and consider infrastructure wanted for a multi-modal transportation community.
Environmental Assessments for the extensions of Interchange Approach and Millway Avenue are additionally advancing. The research will consider different designs, choose a most well-liked design, study impacts on the encompassing setting and establish measures to mitigate these impacts. The proposed extensions of those two streets are the final two vital lacking highway segments within the main collector highway community inside the VMC.
The VMC Secondary Plan Replace can also be underway to coordinate an built-in method to transportation and land use planning in Vaughan’s downtown core.
