June 7, 2016 by admin

Track work completed on Toronto-York-Spadina Subway Extension

Toronto:Track work for the 8.6-kilometre Toronto-York-Spadina Subway Extension has officially been completed, officials announced Monday.
Members of all three levels of government, including Premier Kathleen Wynne, MP Adam Vaughan, and TTC chair Josh Colle, were on hand at the future Vaughan Metropolitan Centre Station on Monday morning to mark the milestone.
“This is the way transit gets built when all levels of government work together,” Wynne told reporters Monday.“We are making it possible by working together for families to spend more time together instead of in traffic, for young people, who can’t yet afford to live on their own, to still be able to reach the right job opportunity, for our children to breathe cleaner air and for our economy to continue to grow and create jobs.”
Six new stations are being added as part of the extension, including a stop at York University.
“Commuters are also going to benefit from this because it links into the VIVA and TTC lines on the surface routes,” Vaughan said Monday.
The completion of track work comes following multiple delays and cost overruns for the multi-billion project.
Subway service on the extension is expected to begin at the end of 2017, more than a year later than the date that was initially provided, and the current $3.18 billion budget for the project is more than $500 million over the original estimate of $2.634 billion.