Paid parking will be available for subway riders at Vaughan station
Better get there before 8 a.m. on weekdays to get 1 of 900 spots says exec

YorkRegion.com
Nov. 29, 2017
Tim Kelly

You'll be able to park once the subway starts running from the Vaughan Metropolitan Centre on Dec. 17, but it will cost you.

Two lots totalling 900 parking spaces will be available for commuters to use near the subway station.

The cost to park in the lots will vary with those parking before 8 a.m. and after 4:30 p.m. paying $5. Between the hours of 8 a.m. and 4:30 p.m. the cost jumps to $12. Weekend use of the lots will cost drivers $5.

The lots consist of 200 and 700 spaces.

"We asked the city if we could put in commuter lots," said Sandra Kaiser, vice-president of corporate affairs for SmartCentres, which owns 100 acres at the VMC including the land on which the two parking lots sit.

She said council and the city liked the idea of parking at the VMC as a way to get people "used to coming to the Vaughan Metropolitan Centre ... so they'll start coming to use all the amenities that are coming here."

Those amenities will include a nine-acre park, a YMCA, restaurants and other businesses.

Kaiser expects that the lots will be full by 8 a.m. each weekday morning as commuters come to use the subway.

She said that eventually the parking format will change as SmartCentres develops its land. However, she believes there won't be any changes for a number of years.