Do you move through the VMC?
If you live, work,
play or regularly commute through the Vaughan Metropolitan Centre (VMC), we
want to hear from you!
The City of Vaughan is updating the VMC Transportation Master Plan to help guide and manage transportation in the downtown core to 2051 – including confirming community transportation needs, providing a strategy for street connectivity and accessibility, and supporting multi-modal mobility, such as walking, biking, public transit and ridesharing. As part of the update, road Environmental Assessments are also taking place for Interchange Way and Millway Avenue.
Have ideas on how the VMC transportation network can be enhanced? What commuting challenges are you faced with? What other transportation options would you like to see? There are many ways to get involved:
ATTEND A PUBLIC INFORMATION CENTRE
An in-person Public Information Centre is being held to provide a project update, review existing conditions, present issues, opportunities and solutions, and explore design options for the expansions of Interchange Way and Millway Avenue.
Please join us!
- Date: Thursday, Feb. 16
- Time: 5 p.m. to 7 p.m.
- Location: Vaughan Studios and Event Space (200 Apple Mill Rd., third floor)
Learn more at vaughan.ca/VMCTMP.
PROVIDE FEEDBACK ONLINE
Until Friday, March 24, visit vaughan.ca/VMCTMP to share ideas online. Complete a survey to help inform the vision and key priorities for the master plan update, and use the interactive map to pinpoint transportation opportunities and challenges within the study area.
EMAIL THE PROJECT TEAM
Project materials are available for review online at vaughan.ca/VMCTMP. Questions, comments and feedback can be emailed to the project team at vmctmp@wsp.com until Friday, March 24.
MORE ABOUT THE PLAN UPDATE
Located in the heart of the city – northeast of Highways 400 and 407 – the VMC is envisioned to be a complete community that provides residents, businesses and visitors with amenities of an urban lifestyle: multi-use office towers, residences, access to rapid transit, open green space, urban squares, pedestrian shopping areas, restaurants, walking and cycling paths, and more.
Just like any urban area, adequate parking, transit connections and pedestrian-friendly options are required. And with more people living, working and travelling through the VMC, the existing VMC Transportation Master Plan requires an update.
The update will confirm transportation needs, policies and a phasing strategy to 2051. It will provide an assessment of existing and future transportation conditions in the VMC, outline the transportation needs of citizens travelling through the core and evaluate infrastructure needed for a multi-modal transportation network.
As part of the update, environmental studies for the extensions of Interchange Way and Millway Avenue are also taking place. The studies will confirm needs, evaluate alternative designs, select a preferred design, examine impacts on the surrounding environment and identify measures to mitigate those impacts. The proposed extensions of these two streets are the last two significant missing road segments in the major collector road network within the VMC.
The VMC Secondary Plan Update is also underway to provide an integrated approach to transportation and land use planning in Vaughan’s downtown core. The overall goal is to create an even more seamless experience to help you travel in, to, out of and around the VMC. Visit vaughan.ca/VMCPLAN to learn more about this secondary plan.
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