GO Kitchener Extension

Rank 2024

65

Image Credit: Metrolinx

Industry Sector: Transit

Project Type: Rail

Project Value: $959 million

Funding Source: Public

Provincial Funding: $959 million

Province: Ontario

City / Region: Toronto to Kitchener

Estimated End Date of Substantial Completion: TBD

The Kitchener GO extension will enhance train service over its outermost segment to offer a versatile regional travel option that runs outside rush hour. Today, the Kitchener Line between Kitchener and Georgetown GO consists of a single active track, where GO trains share space with freight traffic. To enable two-way, all-day service on the Kitchener Line from Union Station to Kitchener GO, improvements will be made along the rail corridor and to some existing stations on the Kitchener

Line. The Kitchener Extension project will be completed in phases to deliver the required infrastructure. Some of the work entails: track work including storage tracks and passing tracks; bridge work; additional station platforms. The first construction package commenced in May 2022. Additional GO service will be introduced incrementally as construction advances, and as key segments of work are completed. 

Project Owner: Metrolinx

Engineer: Gannett Fleming, AECOM (Toronto to Kitchener); Hatch; LEA Consulting, Parsons (consulting); WSP (design/construction oversight)

Other Key Players: Canadian National Railway Company; Bird Construction; CIMA+; R.V. Anderson Associates Ltd.; Turner & Townsend (project controls); Comtech (project manager); Morrison Hershfield; TULLOCH

Legal: Borden Ladner Gervais (for the owner)

2023 Rank: 64

2022 Rank: 60

2019 Rank: 37

2018 Rank: 31