Shoppers World Terminal
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Shoppers World Terminal
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| Location | 100 Steeles Avenue West Brampton, Ontario Canada |
| Coordinates | 43°39′50″N 79°44′12″W / 43.66389°N 79.73667°W |
| Owned by | City of Brampton |
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| Opened | 2001 |
| Closed | 2012 |
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| Passengers (2009) | 9000 daily |
Shoppers World Terminal is a Brampton Transit bus station that used to serve the south-central and western areas of Brampton, Ontario, including the neighbourhood of Peel Village. It is located on Steeles Avenue, west of Hurontario Street, in the parking lot of Shoppers World Brampton shopping centre. The building includes a service counter, snack vending machines, and a heated waiting area. Washrooms at the station were only for Brampton Transit employees.
The terminal was replaced by the new Brampton Gateway Terminal, located on the northwest corner of Steeles Avenue and Main Street, on 26 November 2012.
As of 2009, it was the second busiest terminal in Brampton, after the Bramalea Terminal, which has also been relocated.
A transit terminal was built at Shoppers World in 1981.
Six routes went to Shoppers World, as of 1989: 1B Queen from City Centre Terminal, later going to Sheridan College, 2 Main from Heart Lake Terminal to Sheridan, 7 Kennedy down Heart Lake and over to Shoppers World, 8 Centre, along the same route from City Centre, and 11 Steeles, to Albion and Humberline, Martin Grove Loop on Saturdays.
Building rehabilitation lasted a few months in 2009.
Issues related to the terminal's safety had been raised. The terminal is in a busy section of the mall parking lot, near independent multicultural grocery store Oceans Fresh Food Market. In April 2011, the Accessibility Advisory Committee discussed the matter of the paint signalling the ramp to some bus platforms was faded, an issue for those lacking full depth perception; no motions were considered, but the Accessibility Coordinator later talked with Brampton Transit.
In 2009, the manager of Land Use Policy recommended that, with the addition of Acceleride (later Züm) and a proposed Hurontario-Main Street LRT, there was a "demonstrated need" to move the terminal to the corner of Hurontario and Steeles. Such a move would allow less diversion time from the route to the station, and for a larger station. As a stop on the potential LRT, the terminal is considered part of the Hurontario Higher Order Transit corridor. Expropriations directly on the corner allowed for the terminal to be moved;, which stood in contrast to the old location which was leased. As of spring 2010, the terminal redesign and relocation was scheduled to coincide with the Zum Main Street launch in fall 2011; it was listed as a 2011 service initiative in the agency's 2011 Current and Capital Budget.
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