March 21, 2011

Infrastructure Ontario invites bids for Toronto airport rail link

The Ontario government has released a request for proposals to four teams that were short-listed to build a spur line and station to provide express rail service between downtown Toronto and Pearson International Airport.

EllisDon Corp., SNC Lavalin Group Inc. (TSX:SNC), Aecon Construction and Materials Ltd. (TSX:ARE) and Flatiron Constructors Canada Ltd. are among the major firms belonging to teams that will be invited to bid.

The project will entail a three-kilometre rail spur that will branch off from an existing railway in the GO Georgetown corridor. It will also include a passenger station at Pearson International Airport terminal 1.

Once the project is complete, trains would leave Toronto Union railway station every 15 minutes. The government intends to have the service ready in time for the 2015 Pan Am games.

The rail link will be owned and operated by Metrolinx, the Government of Ontario’s transit agency. The four teams were the highest-scoring consortia evaluated by the province after a request for qualification process.

Short-listed bidders are:

• AirLink Group, comprised of SNC Lavalin;

• AirLINX Transit, comprised of Aecon Construction and Materials Ltd. And Dufferin Construction Company;

• Pearson Express, comprised of Flatiron Constructors Canada and Laing O’Rourke; and

• Toronto Railway Airport Consortium (T.R.A.C.), comprised of EllisDon Corp., ACS Infrastructure Canada and Fengate.

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