Finch West LRT

Rank 2025

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: 2025

This Finch West LRT project includes 11 kilometres of new semi-dedicated rapid transit between Humber College and the new Finch West subway, with 18 surface stops and a below-grade interchange station to connect with the new Finch West subway station on the TTC’s Line 1. In the Fall of 2024, the project marked a major milestone with the announcement that all stations and stops across the Finch West LRT had been completed.

Project Owner: Metrolinx

Engineer: Jacobs (owner’s engineer and project manager); WSP (sustainability consultant/project management/TTC operator’s representative); Hatch (owner’s engineer); LEA (engineer design); EXP; AECOM, 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: Aon (risk/insurance advisor to authority); EY (advisor); LeighFisher (lenders technical advisor); Parsons (overseeing technical advisor); INTECH (risk advisor); Stantec (MEP design services); GHD (traffic mgmt.); GFL (excavation, shoring, soil management); Accenture (project manager); Rider Levett Bucknall; Englobe; A. W. Hooker Associates Ltd. (cost consultant); CIMA+; Deloitte (management consultant); Entuitive; HKA; INFRATA (managing consultant); Turner & Townsend (project controls); Montrose Environmental (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 LLP

Road or Transit Length (km): 11

2024 Rank: 23

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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