Help design Interchange Way and Millway Avenue
Do you live, work, play, study or commute through the Vaughan Metropolitan Centre (VMC)? If so, you’re invited to get involved in the designs of Interchange Way and Millway Avenue extensions!
The City of Vaughan is updating the VMC Transportation Master Plan to help guide and manage transportation in the city’s core. This plan will outline transportation needs, provide a strategy for street connectivity and accessibility, and support multi-modal mobility, such as walking, biking, public transit and ridesharing, through to 2051. As part of the update, Municipal Class Environmental Assessments – the process that evaluates environmental impacts of a proposed project – are also advancing for the Interchange Way and Millway Avenue extensions, concurrently.
To enhance transportation in the VMC, the City is proposing preferred road alignments for the extensions of Millway Avenue and Interchange Way. Want to review plans and help design the final option? Here’s how you can share your input:
Attend a meeting: The City is hosting a Public Information Centre (meeting) on Tuesday, Dec. 5 at the Vaughan Studios & Event Space (200 Apple Mill Rd., main floor). Drop by anytime from 5 p.m. to 7 p.m. to speak to the project team, learn more about the road extensions and have your say.
Provide feedback online: Can’t attend the in-person meeting? No problem! Material from the meeting will be available online at vaughan.ca/VMCTMP, from Monday, Dec. 4 until Wednesday, Jan. 31, 2024. Questions, comments and feedback can be emailed to vmctmp@wsp.com or through an online feedback form.
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 in 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 updated plan will confirm transportation needs, policies and a phasing strategy to 2051. In addition, it will provide an assessment of existing and future transportation conditions in the VMC, outline the transportation needs of residents travelling through the core and evaluate infrastructure needed for a multi-modal transportation network.
As part of the update, Environmental Assessments for the extensions of Interchange Way and Millway Avenue are also advancing. The studies will 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 coordinate an integrated approach to transportation and land use planning in Vaughan’s downtown core. The overall goal is to create a well-organized 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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