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The proposed Queen Street-Highway 7 Bus Rapid Transit (BRT) corridor is "poised to be a game-changer for Brampton and Vaughan". [1] This project aims to address the city's growing transportation challenges while stimulating economic growth and enhancing quality of life. [2]
Main Street in downtown Brampton. Main Street is Brampton's primary historic north south street, and originally bore the Hurontario Street name, but was changed after the city's founding. The corner of Main and Queen Streets is the location of the city's historic downtown. Attractions along Main include Gage Park and the Rose Theatre.
Huttonville, Brampton Has a small diversion/concurrency with RR 1; continues east of McMurchy Avenue under the jurisdiction of the City of Brampton as Queen Street West, resumes Regional jurisdiction at Highway 410 as Regional Road 107 Airport Road: Interchange with Highway 427 (boundary with the City of Toronto), continues as Dixon Road
501 Züm Queen is a bus rapid transit route in Brampton, Ontario that is part of the Züm network. The route first began service on September 20, 2010, and runs between the Downtown Brampton Terminal in the west to the Toronto Transit Commission 's Vaughan Metropolitan Centre station in Vaughan in the east.
Queen Street is the city's main east–west street. Farther north, Bovaird Drive is another main artery. Sections of both Queen (eastern portion) and Bovaird (western portion) were part the former Highway 7 , (now Regional Road 107 ), with Highway 410 being the route followed between the two streets.
In preparation for the launch of Route 501 (Queen Street), Brampton Transit re-built its Bramalea City Centre Terminal, relocating it from its previous location beside Clark Boulevard, on the south side of the shopping centre, to the northeast corner, nearer to Queen Street. Minor renovations will also be performed at the downtown terminal.
On September 9, 2014, the MTO announced that Highway 410 would be widened to ten lanes from south of Highway 401 to Queen Street in Brampton by 2018. A C$ 156.7 million contract was awarded to Aecon Construction to expand the freeway by adding one general purpose and one High-occupancy vehicle (HOV) lane in each direction. [ 35 ]
In March 2013, Brampton City Council asked city staff to consider two alternative routes north from Steeles Avenue, either (1) partially north on Main Street, east to Peel Memorial Hospital, north to Queen Street and west to Brampton GO Station, or (2) north on Kennedy Road, west on Queen Street to Brampton GO Station. [32]