Markham's New $50 MILLION Bus Terminal 

Unsheltered bike storage and lack of priority pedestrian walkways to the existing nearby developments and hospital seem like huge oversights. It could be many years before this place gets significant usage.

Lol the busses don't stop at the hospital anymore, but they didn't put a crosswalk in to get you across the road to the hospital? The pedestrian and bike infra that would have made this actually useful isn't even planned? This would be like the cheapest part of this whole thing. Two pairs of curb bumpouts and some white paint.

Thanks for the update on this Greater Golden Horseshoe transit expansion project. Would love to see you make more stuff. Your work is great. Thanks for all you do.

Couldn't make it today so thanks for making a video! The terminal looks nice but also very overbuilt, even with new development a smaller terminal likely could have worked just fine

So excited for this to finally open! Hopefully Durham Region connects their services to it soon to service more inter-regional demand.

I drove past it the other day. It looks fantastic, but it also strikes me as being in the middle of nowhere.

Probably one of the best transport channels on YT! Also, why does it seem all transport channels originate from Canada?

Will be checking out this terminal this Thursday.

How was this $50 million, it's literally pavenment and a few walls. With that money you'd expect paths and tunnels to those neighbouring buildings, as well as a more impressive waiiting room.

Wow this took an eternity for it to open. I’ve always seen this on VIVA maps since the very beginning

So you have a terminal that is not easily accessible by pedestrians in the nearby communities or hospital, and there is no parking for commuters to park and ride. So what are their target passengers?

Nice

Looks cool

That's Very Amazing Super Cool Transit Center with 11 Bus Bay Just Like Civic Center in Downtown St Louis but it has 18 Metro Bus Bays The Cornell Transit Center was also Wondering I really liked the video

@Vanishing Underground This Is A Amazing Video And What’s Next?

I don't know how I feel about these projects that are meant to attract development in the future... it's good to plan ahead but when you have existing areas of the GTA that are starving for better transit now, I think the money would be better spent in areas where the ridership and development already exists.

Thank you for a super video. I (Roger Sexton) am sitting in my apartment in Nottingham (England) admiring this fantastic new bus terminal opened only a few hours ago! I do however note Fraptero's concerns regarding pedestrian and bike access. How close is the terminal to the hospital?

$50M CAD (€38.2 EUR, $37.8 USD) for just 7 bus routes sounds like a huge outlay? I can only assume that bus frequency increases and new development is expected off the back of this investment? You do highlight some key oversights in this new development the lack of pedestrian routes to local housing seems a basic mistake and for a terminal/interchange point designed to serve a hospital I didn't see an easy walking route to it either. Surely a covered weather proofed route to the Hospital should have been an essential part of the plan.

"future TOD" And here I was wondering where all the walkable land uses nearby were.

When is the next evolution of the network video

This looks like a bus terminal that’s designed to be exclusively accessed by car 🤦‍♂️ let’s hope the TOD plans work out

It's finially done

This is a nice terminal but it is definitely missing the sidewalk to the hospital!

Ooh nice, a new expensive transits Termianla Also Vanishing Underground how's Via Rail part 3 coming along? Or is it cancelled?

Not the best location for a major bus terminal. More thought should have been put into this before construction had started.

Great video Zack, Can we share your video? We are the contractor who did all the cladding of the Terminal

Now all they need to do is actually run the BRT services frequently… oh wait

I wonder what was the reason behind this chosen location. Fancy terminal does not attract riders. A transit system should connect with points of interest. It is a shame that it is lacking a sidewalk that connects the hospital. Can you imagine how someone can cross that requires a wheelchair? Better yet, during winter time? Markham( and the rest of GTA) should relax the number of parking requirements for all commercial development. Crossing the sea of parking is the biggest turn-off when comparing public transit vs cars. Improve walkability will make public transit far more attractive than buildling fancy stations in the middle of nowhere.

50 (!) million (!!!) !

What's the point of adding a bus terminal in a car centric suburb? Nobody is taking the bus, since they are infrequent, go nowhere and get stuck in car traffic. Problem is the horrible car centric suburbs, they have no soul or culture, they all look the same. Canada needs to build walkable cities.

Love the video but I do not like the terminal. Just seems like a costly vanity project to say 'Hey everyone! We're investing in public transportation!🤓' without all the fundamentals to make it "public" Is there any reason why the terminal wasn't integrated into the medical campus?... Heck, was it too hard for them to install a crosswalk?

No connection to DRT. No parking. No sidewalk to the hospital. That's not going to be good in the winter.

$10m over is *cheap* in Ontario Transit normalcy. 🤣

White elephant project

They should’ve waited to build us no connections to the hospital or to the house across the street. That’s crazy two years late and over budget.

I know it’s just a bus terminal, the design could be better.

Looks like a waist of money just like all the new bus stops such as the ones on highway7!

Waste of markham tex payer money totally useless terminal