The City of Toronto is placing a greater emphasis and priority on the development of "higher-order" public transit operations to respond to increased travel demand in a sustainable fashion. This study is focused on addressing the short-term ten-year needs within the Yonge Street corridor, recognizing the adopted long-term proposal to extend the Yonge Subway. In order to identify surface transit opportunities for improvements on Yonge Street between Steeles Avenue and Finch Avenue, the City of Toronto, together with the TTC and GO Transit have initiated a Class Environmental Assessment. The impact assessment recognized that the preferred alternative should allow for the integration of transit services with the proposed Yonge Street Transitway north of Steeles avenue by York Region. This paper focuses on the constraints, analyses, and trade-offs between competing objectives that occurred during the development of design concepts, and identify practical lessons and generic conclusions that can be applied to similar studies. For the covering abstract of the conference see ITRD number E211521.
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