Ontario Line

Rank 2023

6

Image Credit: Metrolinx

Industry Sector: Transit

Project Type: Subway

Project Value: $10.9 billion

Funding Source: Public

Provincial Funding: $10.9 billion

Province: Ontario

City / Region: Toronto

Estimated End Date of Substantial Completion: 2031

The Ontario Line is a 15.6-kilometre stand-alone rapid transit line that will connect the Ontario Science Centre to Exhibition/Ontario Place. Over half of the route is planned to run underground through new tunnels, with the remainder running along elevated and at-grade rail corridor sections of track. Fifteen stations are proposed, with numerous connections to the broader transit network, including GO Transit rail services, the Toronto Transit Commission’s subway Lines 1 and 2, the future Line 5 (Eglinton Crosstown LRT), as well as numerous bus and streetcar routes. The Ontario Line is one of four priority transit projects announced by the province in 2019 for the Greater Toronto and Hamilton Area.

In November 2022, Infrastructure Ontario and Metrolinx awarded a contract to Connect 6ix valued at $9B ($2.3B for capital costs and $6.7B for short-term construction financing and transaction costs, train costs and 30-year operations and maintenance, lifecycle, and long-term financing). The Connect 6ix team will design, build, finance, operate and maintain the Ontario Line Rolling Stock, Systems, Operations and Maintenance (RS.SOM) package for a 30-year term.

The team will begin mobilizing their design and construction crews, with work to commence in 2023. The project is anticipated to be completed in 2031. Once all the civil infrastructure elements and systems from Ontario Line North and South segments have been completed, integrated and certified, Connect 6ix will then begin operating and maintaining the Ontario Line for a 30-year term.

Project Owner: Metrolinx

Project/Construction Manager: Procurement Agent: Infrastructure Ontario

P3 Team Members/Project Team: Southern Civil, Stations and Tunnel (South Civil): The Ontario Transit Group Applicant Lead: Ferrovial Construction Canada Inc., VINCI Construction Grands Projets Design Team: AECOM Canada Ltd., COWI North America Ltd., GHD Limited, SENER Group Construction Team: Ferrovial Construction Canada Inc., Janin Atlas Inc. Financial Advisor: Agentis Capital. Rolling Stock, Systems, Operations and Maintenance (RSSOM): Connect 6ix Applicant Lead: Plenary Americas, Hitachi Rail, Webuild Group (Salini Impreglio Canada Holding Inc.), Transdev Canada Inc. Design Team: Hitachi Rail, Arcadis-IBI Group Construction Team: Hitachi Rail, Webuild Group (Astaldi Canada Design & Construction Inc. and Salini Impreglio Civil Works Inc.), NGE Contracting Inc. Operations, Maintenance and Rehabilitation Team: Hitachi Rail, Transdev Canada Inc.

Environmental Services: AECOM-Environmental Assessment (Early Works)

Other Key Players: Aon (risk advisor); Golder-a WSP company (geotechnical studies); Hanscomb (cost consultant); EY (mgmt. consultant); Jacobs; Comtech; HDR (technical advisory services); Hatch; Wood-a WSP company (environmental engineer); Entuitive; WSP (TTC Operators representative); AECOM (environmental assessment-early works); Colliers Project Leaders; Dillon Consulting (technical advisory services); GFL (excavation, shoring, soil management); Turner & Townsend (project controls/estimating)

Financiers and Banks: National Bank Financial Inc., Sumitomo Mitsui Banking Corporation

Supplier Other: DECAST

Legal: Borden Ladner Gervais (for the owner); Dentons; Stikeman Elliott LLP

Road or Transit Length (km): 15.6

2022 Rank: 6

2021 Rank: 6

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