TORONTO—The Ontario government has announced the award of a contract valued at $729.2 million to West End Connectors to design, build and finance the tunnels for the Eglinton Crosstown West Extension project in the Greater Toronto Area.
West End Connectors is a consortium comprised of Aecon Group (40 per cent), Dragados Canada (40 per cent) and Ghella (20 per cent), explained a recent release. Infrastructure Ontario and Metrolinx will lead project ownership for the government.
The project is the first phase of work for the 9.2-kilometre extension of the Eglinton Crosstown LRT. The extension will run primarily underground and westward from the future Mount Dennis Station between Weston Road and Black Creek Drive to Renforth Drive.
The system will connect to the GO Kitchener Line and Union-Pearson (UP) Express at Mount Dennis Station, TTC bus services in Toronto and GO and MiWay bus services.
“This critical extension to Toronto’s transit system will improve mobility for the community, decrease traffic congestion and reduce emissions by providing a new, more sustainable transportation option,” said Aecon president and CEO Jean-Louis Servranckx in a statement. “We look forward to leveraging our experience executing the Eglinton Crosstown LRT project as well as our pre-eminent heavy civil and urban transportation systems capabilities to deliver this important project with Infrastructure Ontario, Metrolinx and our partners.”
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