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Hurontario LRT, the Glossary

The Hurontario LRT (formerly the Hurontario–Main LRT) is a light rail line under construction in the cities of Mississauga and Brampton, Ontario, Canada.^[1]

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Acciona

Acciona, S.A. is a Spanish multinational conglomerate dedicated to the development and management of infrastructure (construction, water, industrial and services) and renewable energy.

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Alstom

Alstom SA is a French multinational rolling stock manufacturer which operates worldwide in rail transport markets.

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Alstom Citadis Spirit

The Alstom Citadis Spirit is a low-floor articulated light rail vehicle developed by Alstom for Ottawa's O-Train.

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Arup (officially Arup Group Limited) is a British multinational professional services firm headquartered in London that provides design, engineering, architecture, planning, and advisory services across every aspect of the built environment.

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Astaldi

Astaldi S.p.A. is an Italian multinational major construction company based in Rome.

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Bombardier Transportation

Bombardier Transportation was a Canadian-German rolling stock and rail transport manufacturer, with headquarters in Berlin, Germany.

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Bonnie Crombie

Bonnie Crombie (Stack; Sawarna; born February 5, 1960) is a Canadian politician who has been the leader of the Ontario Liberal Party since December 2, 2023.

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Bramalea GO Station

Bramalea GO Station is a GO Transit railway and bus station along the Kitchener line in Brampton, Ontario, Canada.

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Brampton

Brampton is a city in the Canadian province of Ontario.

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Brampton Gateway Terminal

Brampton Gateway Terminal is a Brampton Transit bus station serving the south-central and western areas of Brampton, Ontario.

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Brampton GO Station

Brampton Innovation District GO Station (Brampton Station) is a railway station served by GO Transit and Via Rail, located at 27 Church Street West in downtown Brampton, Ontario, Canada.

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Brampton Transit

Brampton Transit (BT) is a public transport bus operator for the City of Brampton in the Regional Municipality of Peel, and within the Greater Toronto Area (GTA) in Ontario, Canada.

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Burnhamthorpe Road

Burnhamthorpe Road is a major arterial road in the cities of Toronto and Mississauga, Ontario; beginning at Dundas Street (from which it initially angles away from before running parallel with), near Islington Avenue, running west and becoming a rural road in the Town of Oakville, where it terminates (after breaking) at Tremaine Road, where it changes name.

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Bus rapid transit

Bus rapid transit (BRT), also referred to as a busway or transitway, is a bus-based public transport system designed to have much more capacity, reliability, and other quality features than a conventional bus system.

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Canadian Broadcasting Corporation

The Canadian Broadcasting Corporation (Société Radio-Canada), branded as CBC/Radio-Canada, is the Canadian public broadcaster for both radio and television.

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Central Parkway station

Central Parkway is a bus rapid transit station on the Mississauga Transitway in central Mississauga, Ontario, Canada.

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Cintra

Cintra, S.A. (Concesiones de Infraestructuras de Transporte, translated as Toll Transport Infrastructures) is one of the largest private developers of transport infrastructure in the world.

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Colas Group

Colas Group is a major French civil engineering firm specialising in road construction and rail track construction through its Colas Rail subsidiary.

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Colas Rail

Colas Rail is a railway infrastructure and rail freight company primarily active in the United Kingdom.

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Common stock

Common stock is a form of corporate equity ownership, a type of security.

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Cooksville GO Station

Cooksville GO Station is a GO Transit train and bus station the Milton line in the community of Cooksville in Mississauga, Ontario, Canada.

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Direct current

Direct current (DC) is one-directional flow of electric charge.

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Dundas Street

Dundas Street is a major historic arterial road in Ontario, Canada.

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Dundas Street bus rapid transit

Dundas Street bus rapid transit is a proposed bus rapid transit (BRT) corridor proposed by Metrolinx for the western part of the Greater Toronto and Hamilton Area in Southern Ontario, Canada. Hurontario LRT and Dundas Street bus rapid transit are the Big Move projects.

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Eglinton Avenue

Eglinton Avenue is a major east–west arterial thoroughfare in Toronto and Mississauga in the Canadian province of Ontario.

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Eglinton GO Station

Eglinton GO Station is a train station that serves the Scarborough Village and Eglinton East neighbourhoods of Toronto, Ontario, Canada.

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Electric power transmission

Electric power transmission is the bulk movement of electrical energy from a generating site, such as a power plant, to an electrical substation.

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Elevated railway

An elevated railway or elevated train (also known as an el train or el for short) is a railway with the tracks above street level on a viaduct or other elevated structure (usually constructed from steel, cast iron, concrete, or bricks).

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Ferrovial

Ferrovial S.E., previously Grupo Ferrovial, is a Spanish multinational company that operates in the infrastructure sector for transportation and mobility with four divisions: Highways, Airports, Construction, and Mobility and Energy Infrastructure.

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Flexity Freedom

The Flexity Freedom is a low-floor, articulated light rail vehicle developed by Bombardier Transportation (and later Alstom) for the North American market.

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Global News

Global News is the news and current affairs division of the Canadian Global Television Network.

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GO Transit

GO Transit is a regional public transit system serving the Greater Golden Horseshoe region of Ontario, Canada.

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Government of Ontario

The Government of Ontario (Gouvernement de l'Ontario) is the body responsible for the administration of the Canadian province of Ontario.

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Greater Toronto Area

The Greater Toronto Area, commonly referred to as the GTA, includes the City of Toronto and the regional municipalities of Durham, Halton, Peel, and York.

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Hazel McCallion

Hazel McCallion (February 14, 1921 – January 29, 2023) was a Canadian politician who served as the fifth mayor of Mississauga.

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Hitachi

() is a Japanese multinational conglomerate founded in 1910 and headquartered in Chiyoda, Tokyo.

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Hitachi Rail STS

Hitachi Rail STS SpA (from Hitachi Rail Signalling and Transportation Systems) or Hitachi Rail STS (previously Ansaldo STS) is a transportation company owned by Hitachi with a global presence in the field of railway signalling and integrated transport systems for passenger traffic (railway/mass transit) and freight operations.

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Hurontario Street

Hurontario Street is a roadway running in Ontario, Canada between Lake Ontario at Mississauga and Lake Huron's Georgian Bay at Collingwood.

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Island platform

An island platform (also center platform (American English) or centre platform (British English)) is a station layout arrangement where a single platform is positioned between two tracks within a railway station, tram stop or transitway interchange.

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John Laing Group

John Laing Group plc is a British investor, developer and operator of privately financed, public sector infrastructure projects such as roads, railways, hospitals and schools through public-private partnership (PPP) and private finance initiative (PFI) arrangements.

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Keolis

Keolis is a French transportation company that operates public transport systems all over the world.

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Kiewit Corporation

Kiewit Corporation is an American privately held construction company based in Omaha, Nebraska founded in 1884.

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Lakeshore West line

Lakeshore West is one of the seven train lines of the GO Transit system in the Greater Toronto Area, Ontario, Canada.

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Light rail

Light rail (or light rail transit, abbreviated to LRT) is a form of passenger urban rail transit using rolling stock derived from tram technology National Conference of the Transportation Research Board while also having some features from heavy rapid transit.

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Line 1 Yonge–University

Line 1 Yonge–University is a rapid transit line of the Toronto subway.

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Line 5 Eglinton

Line 5 Eglinton (also known as the Eglinton Crosstown LRT or the Crosstown) is a light rail line that is under construction in Toronto, Ontario, Canada. Hurontario LRT and line 5 Eglinton are 2024 in rail transport, Buildings and structures under construction in Canada, light rail in Canada, public–private partnership projects in Canada, the Big Move projects and tram and light rail transit systems under construction.

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Line 6 Finch West

Line 6 Finch West, also known as the Finch West LRT, is a light rail line under construction in Toronto, Ontario, Canada, to be operated by the Toronto Transit Commission. Hurontario LRT and line 6 Finch West are 2024 in rail transport, Buildings and structures under construction in Canada, light rail in Canada, public–private partnership projects in Canada, the Big Move projects and tram and light rail transit systems under construction.

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Meridiam

Meridiam is a global investor and asset manager based in Paris specialized in developing, financing and managing long-term public infrastructure projects.

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Metrolinx

Metrolinx is a transportation agency in Ontario, Canada.

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Milton line

Milton is one of the seven train lines of the GO Transit system in the Greater Toronto Area, Ontario, Canada. Hurontario LRT and Milton line are passenger rail transport in Peel Region.

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Ministry of Infrastructure (Ontario)

The Ministry of Infrastructure is a ministry responsible for public infrastructure in the Canadian province of Ontario.

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Mississauga

Mississauga is a Canadian city in the province of Ontario.

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Mississauga City Centre

Mississauga City Centre is the downtown of Mississauga, Ontario, Canada.

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Mississauga City Centre Transit Terminal

The City Centre Transit Terminal in Mississauga, Ontario, Canada is the main transit hub and bus station for MiWay, the city's public transit system.

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Mississauga City Council

Mississauga City Council is the governing body of the city of Mississauga, Ontario, Canada.

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Mississauga Hospital

Mississauga Hospital is a regional and teaching hospital in Mississauga, Ontario, Canada.

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Mississauga Transitway

The Mississauga Transitway is a bus rapid transit (BRT) system in Mississauga, Ontario, Canada. Hurontario LRT and Mississauga Transitway are the Big Move projects.

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MiWay

MiWay (stylized MiWay), also known as Mississauga Transit and originally as Mississauga Transit Systems, is the municipal public transport agency serving Mississauga, Ontario, Canada, and is responsible to the city's Transportation and Works Department.

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Ontario Highway 401

King's Highway 401, commonly referred to as Highway 401 and also known by its official name as the Macdonald–Cartier Freeway or colloquially referred to as the four-oh-one, is a controlled-access 400-series highway in the Canadian province of Ontario.

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Ontario Highway 403

King's Highway403 (pronounced "four-oh-three"), or simply Highway403, is a 400-series highway in the Canadian province of Ontario that travels between Woodstock and Mississauga, branching off from and reuniting with Highway 401 at both ends and travelling south of it through Hamilton (where it is also known as the Chedoke Expressway) and Mississauga.

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Ontario Highway 407

King's Highway 407, commonly referred to as Highway 407 and colloquially as the "four-oh-seven", is a tolled 400-series highway in the Canadian province of Ontario. Hurontario LRT and Ontario Highway 407 are public–private partnership projects in Canada.

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Overhead line

An overhead line or overhead wire is an electrical cable that is used to transmit electrical energy to electric locomotives, electric multiple units, trolleybuses or trams.

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Peel Memorial Centre for Integrated Health and Wellness

Peel Memorial Centre for Integrated Health and Wellness is a large ambulatory care facility located in central Brampton, Ontario, opened in 2017.

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Port Credit

Port Credit is a neighbourhood in the south-central part of the City of Mississauga, Ontario, Canada, located at the mouth of the Credit River on the north shore of Lake Ontario.

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Port Credit GO Station

Port Credit GO Station is a GO Transit train and bus station in Mississauga, Ontario, Canada.

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Public–private partnership

A public–private partnership (PPP, 3P, or P3) is a long-term arrangement between a government and private sector institutions.

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Queen Elizabeth Way

The Queen Elizabeth Way (QEW) is a 400-series highway in the Canadian province of Ontario linking Toronto with the Niagara Peninsula and Buffalo, New York.

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RATP Group

The RATP Group (Groupe RATP) is a French state-owned enterprise (EPIC) that operates public transport systems.

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Regional Municipality of Peel

The Regional Municipality of Peel (informally Peel Region or Region of Peel, also formerly Peel County) is a regional municipality in the Greater Toronto Area, Southern Ontario, Canada.

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SENER

SENER is a private engineering and technology group founded in 1956. Specializing in activities related to Engineering and Construction, it has industrial holdings in companies working in the areas of energy, environment, and aeronautics.

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Square One Bus Terminal

Square One Bus Terminal is a GO Transit intercity bus terminal located in central Mississauga, Ontario, Canada.

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Square One Shopping Centre, or simply Square One, is a shopping mall located in Mississauga, Ontario, Canada.

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Steeles Avenue

Steeles Avenue is an east–west street that forms the northern city limit of Toronto and the southern limit of York Region in Ontario, Canada.

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Susan Fennell

Susan Fennell is a Canadian politician, who served as the mayor of Brampton, Ontario from 2000 to 2014.

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The Globe and Mail

The Globe and Mail is a Canadian newspaper printed in five cities in western and central Canada.

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The Queensway

The Queensway (or Queensway) is a major street in the municipalities of Toronto and Mississauga, Ontario, Canada.

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Toronto

Toronto is the most populous city in Canada and the capital city of the Canadian province of Ontario.

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Toronto Star

The Toronto Star is a Canadian English-language broadsheet daily newspaper.

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Toronto subway

The Toronto subway is a rapid transit system serving Toronto and the neighbouring city of Vaughan in Ontario, Canada, operated by the Toronto Transit Commission (TTC).

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Traction substation

A traction substation, traction current converter plant, rectifier station or traction power substation (TPSS) is an electrical substation that converts electric power from the form provided by the electrical power industry for public utility service to an appropriate voltage, current type and frequency to supply railways, trams (streetcars) or trolleybuses with traction current.

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Tram

A tram (also known as a streetcar or trolley in the United States and Canada) is a type of urban rail transit consisting of either individual railcars or self-propelled multiple unit trains that run on tramway tracks on urban public streets; some include segments on segregated right-of-way.

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References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hurontario_LRT

Also known as Hazel McCallion Line, Hurontario Light Rail Transit, Hurontario Main Light Rail Transit, Hurontario-Main LRT, Hurontario-Main Street LRT, Line 10 Hazel McCallion, Line 10 Hurontario.

, Ministry of Infrastructure (Ontario), Mississauga, Mississauga City Centre, Mississauga City Centre Transit Terminal, Mississauga City Council, Mississauga Hospital, Mississauga Transitway, MiWay, Ontario Highway 401, Ontario Highway 403, Ontario Highway 407, Overhead line, Peel Memorial Centre for Integrated Health and Wellness, Port Credit, Port Credit GO Station, Public–private partnership, Queen Elizabeth Way, RATP Group, Regional Municipality of Peel, SENER, Square One Bus Terminal, Square One Shopping Centre, Steeles Avenue, Susan Fennell, The Globe and Mail, The Queensway, Toronto, Toronto Star, Toronto subway, Traction substation, Tram, Transdev, Vaughan Metropolitan Centre, Volt, Züm, 502 Züm Main, 511 Züm Steeles.

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See also

2024 in rail transport

Buildings and structures under construction in Canada

Light rail in Canada

Passenger rail transport in Peel Region

Public–private partnership projects in Canada

The Big Move projects

Tram and light rail transit systems under construction

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