Finch West LRT

Rank 2024

23 Image Credit: Metrolinx

Industry Sector: Transit

Project Type: LRT

Project Value: $3.433 billion

Funding Source: P3

Federal Funding: Up to $333 million

Provincial Funding: Ministry of Transportation capital allotment to Metrolinx: $3.1 billion

Province: Ontario

City / Region: Toronto

Estimated End Date of Substantial Completion: 2024

This new LRT, located along Finch Avenue West in the city’s northwest end, will be integrated with the city’s existing transit system. The project includes 11 kilometres of new semi-dedicated rapid transit between Humber College and the new Finch West subway station on the Toronto-York Spadina subway extension; 18 surface stops and a below-grade interchange station to connect with the new Finch West subway station; and a maintenance and storage facility for the light rail vehicles. Construction is making progress throughout the Finch West LRT project, including road widening, continued utility relocations and upgrades, and excavating the underground interchange station at Finch West Subway Station. In summer 2021, the first light rail vehicle arrived at the Finch West Maintenance and Storage Facility.

Project Owner: Metrolinx

Engineer: Jacobs (owner’s engineer and project manager); WSP (engineer/sustainability consultant/project management/TTC operator’s representative); Hatch (owner’s engineer); LEA (engineer design); EXP; Mott MacDonald (consulting)

Project/Construction Manager: Infrastructure Ontario (Procurement Agent)

P3 Team Members/Project Team: DBFM Team: Mosaic Transit Partners–ACS Infrastructure Canada Inc.; Aecon Concessions; CRH Canada Group Inc. Construction: Aecon Infrastructure and Management Inc.; Dragados Canada Inc.; Dufferin Construction Company—a division of CRH Canada Group Inc. Design: Arup Canada Inc.; Dillon Consulting Limited; DPM Energy Inc.; DTAH; Perkins + Will Canada Inc.; Sener SES Canada Inc. Maintenance: ACS Infrastructure Canada Inc.; Aecon O&M—a division of Aecon Construction Group Inc.

Other Key Players: AECOM (technical advisor); Aon (risk/insurance advisor to authority); EY (advisor); LeighFisher (lenders technical advisor); Parsons (overseeing technical advisor); INTECH Risk Management (insurance advisor); Morrison Hershfield (MEP design services); GHD (traffic mgmt.); GFL (excavation, shoring, soil management); Comtech (program/project consulting); Rider Levett Bucknall; Englobe; A. W. Hooker Associates Ltd. (cost consultant); CIMA+; Deloitte (management consultant); Entuitive; HKA; INFRATA (managing consultant); Turner & Townsend (project controls); Matrix Solutions Inc. (environmental specialists)

Vehicle Supplier Names: Bombardier

Supplier Other: Dufferin Concrete; DECAST (precast infrastructure); SEMP Ltd. (consulting engineer)

Legal: Norton Rose Fulbright; McMillan LLP (for the lender); Borden Ladner Gervais (for the owner); Dentons; Singleton Urquhart Reynolds Vogel

Road or Transit Length (km): 11

2023 Rank: 22

2022 Rank: 23

2021 Rank: 22

2020 Rank: 21

2019 Rank: 21

2018 Rank: 47

2017 Rank: 41

2016 Rank: 42

2015 Rank: 50

2014 Rank: 41

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