Mississauga gets nearly $500M to ‘modernize’ public transit network

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Published March 4, 2022 at 12:38 pm

Prime Minister Justin Trudeau was at a MiWay facility in Mississauga today to announce a major investment in public transit.

People who ride the buses in Mississauga will see big improvements down the road with today’s (March 4) announcement that nearly half-a-billion dollars from upper levels of government is on the way to “modernize” public transit in the city.

Prime Minister Justin Trudeau delivered the funding news, which will support three huge public transit projects in Mississauga, at a noon-hour press gathering at a MiWay transit facility on Central Pkwy. W., near Mavis Rd.

He was joined by Mississauga Centre MP and federal Minister of Transport Omar Alghabra, Mayor Bonnie Crombie and Ontario’s Associate Minister of Transportation Stan Cho.

“These investments will support increased capacity, quality and safety of public transit within the city,” a statement from the federal government reads.

Ottawa is providing just over $271 million, the provincial government is contributing nearly $226 million and the City of Mississauga is chipping in almost $181 million to the three major projects.

The largest single investment ($360 million) is being made in the purchase of 314 new 40-foot low-floor and 44 new 60-foot low-floor transit buses for the MiWay fleet.

The new vehicles will replace older ones.

The other two Mississauga public transit initiatives to receive money today are:

  • construction of a new bus rapid transit (BRT) corridor along Dundas St. (the Dundas BRT): $305 million for design and construction of the BRT line as it passes through Mississauga from Confederation Pkwy. to Etobicoke Creek
  • transit priority measures for express bus corridors: $12.5 million for construction of queue-jump lanes at eight intersections on Derry Rd., eight on Eglinton Ave. and nine on Dixie Rd.

The money is being provided via the federal government’s Investing in Canada Plan.

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