Union Station West is a transit infrastructure vision with the potential to reshape the way we live in the Greater Toronto Area (GTA) and beyond.
Your commute is part of your daily life. It’s the trade-off you make between home, work and play. You need to consider the rising cost of personal car ownership, the cost of housing and the time it takes to get from point A to B.
What happens when there are better options to get around? What if a second major transit hub in the city’s north-west could change the way you move, live and spend?
A movement of people, civic organizations and employers is growing. They’re calling for a change in the status quo of regional transit in the GTA.
Go West
More choice
A better transit network–buses, light rail and heavy rail working together–creates more choice. Our current network needs more than one hub. You shouldn’t have to go downtown Toronto to get north, west or east of Toronto by transit.
Better commute
Commuting is a part of life, but it shouldn’t be the worst part. Union Station West would improve your commute, enabling more, affordable and efficient transit connections in the west GTA.
Cleaner air
Climate change poses a real threat. A new transit hub can help to preserve the environment by reducing the climate impact of commuting with a more efficient public transit network. Less idling in traffic means further reductions in vehicle emissions.
Less gridlock
More people taking transit means less cars on the roads, which means less time sitting in traffic and more efficient movement for everyone. We need to reduce congestion on the road for drivers who need to rely on cars because transit has yet to reach their destination.
Connections that work
The trade-off of living and commuting expenses doesn’t have to keep you penned in. A better transit network can put exciting new jobs within your reach and let you advance to the next level.
It doesn’t stop at you, though. Better connections get products on store shelves faster and cargo can reach its destination on time when it’s freed from road congestion.
Improving the regional transit network with Union Station West will keep the entire region moving.
NEWS & ANNOUNCEMENTS
February
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November
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FAQs
WHAT CAN I DO NOW TO MAKE A DIFFERENCE?
Talk about it. Tell your bus buddy, your subway sidekick and your train-mate. Tell people who drive to work, walk to work or ride a bike, because Union Station West has the potential to change the way our entire region moves, and that’s why this is the movement about movement.
WHERE WOULD UNION STATION WEST BE BUILT?
The vision is for Union Station West to be located at Toronto Pearson. That is the perfect spot to connect three neighbouring cities in the west—Brampton, Mississauga, and Etobicoke—plus, it will make it easier to get to the airport.
Transit connection improvements are already happening in the area – new bus services like the MiWay 100 Express and the Eglinton Crosstown LRT will be extended to the airport as well.
IS UNION STATION WEST THE FINAL NAME?
“Union Station West” is the just a nickname for the future transit hub. Referencing the existing Union Station helps decision makers to understand the scope and scale of what we need in the west.
About us
Union Station West is a vision of the Greater Toronto Airports Authority (GTAA), operator of Toronto Pearson International Airport.
Almost 50,000 people work at Pearson and the airport welcomes nearly 130,000 people each day – that’s a lot of people coming to and from the airport. The “Airport Employment Zone” around Toronto Pearson is the second-largest employment zone in Canada – resulting in almost a million trips to the area each day, and 94% of them by car. Toronto Pearson believes that being a good neighbour means growing together with the communities it serves. A major, multi-modal transit hub would serve the airport, the employment area, and reduce congestion on the surrounding road network.