GO Kitchener Extension

Rank 2025

74

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: 2031

The Kitchener GO extension will enhance train service over its outermost segment to offer a versatile regional travel option that runs outside rush hour. 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. A key package of work between Georgetown and Kitchener was completed in 2024, including: a 2.6 km passing track in Breslau; a new second platform at Guelph Central GO Station; and the new storage track for maintenance vehicles west of Guelph.

Project Owner: Metrolinx

Engineer: Gannett Fleming, AECOM (Toronto to Kitchener); Hatch; LEA Consulting, Parsons (consulting); WSP (design/construction oversight as part of 4Transit JV)

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

Legal: Borden Ladner Gervais (for the owner)

2024 Rank: 65

2023 Rank: 64

2022 Rank: 60

2019 Rank: 37

2018 Rank: 31