Highway 7 Rapidway

Highway 7 Rapidway
Highway 7 Rapidway
	Warden Vivastation
Overview
System	Vivanext
Operator	YRT/Viva
Began service	March 6, 2011
Route
Locale	York Region, Ontario ; (Vaughan; Richmond Hill; Markham)
Start	Vaughan Metropolitan Centre
End	Warden Avenue
Stations	15 (plus 11 under construction)
Route map
	Legend
	Canadian National Railway
	MacMillan Yard
	Richmond Hill Centre
	Yonge North extension
	Langstaff GO
	Richmond Hill line
	Unionville GO
	Stouffville line
Legends
Detailed diagram
	←Montgomery Ct
	Fairburn Dr→
	←Allstate Pkwy
	E Valhalla Dr→
	←East Beaver Creek Rd
	Commerce Valley Dr E→
	←West Beaver Creek Rd
	Commerce Valley Dr W→
	←Valleymede Dr
	TImes Ave→
	←Chalmers Rd
	South Park Rd→
	Langstaff GO
	Richmond Hill line
	←New Westminster Dr
	Atkinston Ave→
	MacMillan Yard
	to CN York Subdivision
	←Melville Ave
	Creddistone Rd→
	Line 1 Yonge–University
	to Finch via Union station
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The Highway 7 Rapidway in York Region, Ontario, Canada, is a bus rapid transit right-of-way that runs from Vaughan Metropolitan Centre subway station in Vaughan to Warden Avenue in Markham. There are plans to extend it west to Highway 50 and east to Cornell Terminal. It is served by Viva Purple, Viva Pink, Viva Orange and Viva Green bus routes.

Route description

The first phase of Vivanext brings a rapidway along the portion of Viva Purple from Bayview Avenue to Birchmount road. The rapidway will consist of bus lanes in the median of Highway 7 between Bayview Avenue and Town Centre Boulevard, and a new bus-only road parallel to Enterprise Drive, between the existing Warden Avenue Vivastation and Birchmount Road, extending to Kennedy Road in 2018. Stations along the rapidway will be longer than existing stations, and include heated shelters protected from the elements. On March 6, 2011, the first segment of the rapidway from Warden Road to Birchmount Road including the Warden rapidway station opened. On August 18, 2013, the rapidway along Highway 7 opened from Richmond Hill Centre to East Beaver Creek Drive and the subsequent year to Town Centre Boulevard (and to Cedarland on December 28, 2014). Later phases will extend the rapidway west to Highway 50 and east to Cornell Terminal, potentially to the Durham Region border at the York-Durham Line. On February 26, 2017, YRT 77 Highway 7 buses began serving the Creditstone and Keele stations along Highway 7 West Rapidway. After the extension of the Line 1 Yonge–University subway opened, Viva Orange serve these stations along with the opening of the huge Vaughan Metropolitan Centre rapidway station.

Stations

Leslie Street Rapidway station under construction in May 2012

There are 15 operating rapidway stations with an additional 11 to be opened by 2019. All stations are built at-grade.

Name	Opening Date	Municipality
Stations^[1]
Highway 50	TBA	Vaughan
Highway 427
Highway 27
Martin Grove
Kipling
Islington
Helen	2019^[2]
Pine Valley
Ansley Grove
Weston
Commerce
Vaughan Metropolitan Centre	December 17, 2017^[3]
Creditstone	February 26, 2017^[4]
Keele	February 26, 2017^[4]
Dufferin	2019^[5]
Centre
Promenade Terminal
Atkinson
Bathurst
Richmond Hill Centre Terminal		Richmond Hill
Bayview	August 19, 2013^[6]	Markham, Richmond Hill
Chalmers
Valleymede
West Beaver Creek
Leslie
East Beaver Creek
Allstate Parkway	August 24, 2014	Markham
Woodbine
Montgomery
Town Centre
Cedarland	January 4, 2015
Warden	March 6, 2011
Post Road	2021
Enterprise	2021
Kennedy	TBA
Bullock
McCowan
Gallsworthy
Main Street Markham
Wootten Way
Markham Stouffville Hospital
Cornell Terminal

References

^ "Project Map". vivanext. 2017-09-01. {{cite web}}: Cite has empty unknown parameter: |dead-url= (help)
^ "Hwy 7 West Woodbridge" (PDF). vivanext. Retrieved 2017-09-28. {{cite web}}: Cite has empty unknown parameter: |dead-url= (help)
^ "Changes are coming to Vaughan". Vivanext. Retrieved November 7, 2017.
^ "Hwy 7 West VMC" (PDF). vivanext. Retrieved 2017-09-28. {{cite web}}: Cite has empty unknown parameter: |dead-url= (help)
^ "Hwy 7 Bathurst" (PDF). vivanext. Retrieved 2017-09-28. {{cite web}}: Cite has empty unknown parameter: |dead-url= (help)
^ "Hwy 7 East" (PDF). vivanext. Retrieved 2017-09-28. {{cite web}}: Cite has empty unknown parameter: |dead-url= (help)

External links

[project_map-1] "Project Map". vivanext. 2017-09-01. {{cite web}}: Cite has empty unknown parameter: |dead-url= (help)

[2] "Hwy 7 West Woodbridge" (PDF). vivanext. Retrieved 2017-09-28. {{cite web}}: Cite has empty unknown parameter: |dead-url= (help)

[3] "Changes are coming to Vaughan". Vivanext. Retrieved November 7, 2017.

[4] "Hwy 7 West VMC" (PDF). vivanext. Retrieved 2017-09-28. {{cite web}}: Cite has empty unknown parameter: |dead-url= (help)

[5] "Hwy 7 Bathurst" (PDF). vivanext. Retrieved 2017-09-28. {{cite web}}: Cite has empty unknown parameter: |dead-url= (help)

[6] "Hwy 7 East" (PDF). vivanext. Retrieved 2017-09-28. {{cite web}}: Cite has empty unknown parameter: |dead-url= (help)

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v t e York Region Transit / Viva
Routes	Viva Blue Viva Orange Viva Purple Viva Yellow Former Viva Green Viva Pink Proposed Viva Silver
Terminals	Bernard Cornell Don Mills Finch Humber College Bus Terminal Major Mackenzie West Markham Stouffville Hospital Newmarket Pioneer Village Promenade Richmond Hill Centre Unionville GO Vaughan Metropolitan Centre Vaughan Mills
Rapidways	Davis Drive Highway 7 Yonge Street Proposed Green Lane
Predecessors	Aurora Transit Markham Transit Newmarket Transit Richmond Hill Transit Vaughan Transit

v t e Rapid transit projects in the Big Move
Regional Express Rail	Barrie Bolton Kitchener Lakeshore East Lakeshore West Niagara extension Locust Hill Midtown corridor Milton Richmond Hill Seaton Stouffville Union Pearson Express
Subway	Spadina extension Yonge extension Relief Line
Light rail transit	A-Line B-Line Don Mills Eglinton Finch West Hurontario Jane Scarborough Scarborough Malvern Sheppard East T-Line Waterfront West
Bus rapid transit	407 Transitway 427 North/South Dundas Durham–Scarborough Green Lane Highway 7 Mississauga Transitway Queen (Peel) Steeles (Peel) Steeles (Toronto) Yonge
Other rapid transit	Brant Brock Road McCowan Oshawa Connector Simcoe Steeles–Taunton (Durham) Trafalgar Trafalgar–Main